Loud Thinking June 01, 2014 at 11:34PM
HBR Guide to Coaching Your Employees
When you’re swamped with your own work, how can you make time to coach your employees—and do it well? It’s a common problem. But if you don’t help them build their skills, they’ll keep coming to you for answers instead of finding their own solutions. That kind of handholding kills productivity and creativity, and you can’t sustain it. In the long run, it eats up a lot more time and energy than investing in people’s development.
So you really must coach to be an effective manager. Got a star on your team who’s eager to advance? An underperformer who’s dragging the group down? A steady contributor who feels bored and neglected? You’ll need to agree on goals for growth, motivate your people to achieve them, support their efforts, and measure their progress.
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