

six questions for great coaching I’m going to share a tool that I’ve used with seven CEOs with fantastic results to help them be more effective coaches have a one-on-one dialogue with each of your direct reports every two to three months covering six basic issues number one where are we going say here’s where I see the larger organization going where do you think we should be going number two where are you going to each of those direct reports here’s why I see you and your part of the business going where do you think you should be going number three doing well here’s what I think you’re doing well what do you think you’re doing well what are you most proud of number four suggestions for improvement I believe in feed-forward give them ideas for the future how you think they could do things better and then ask a question if you were the coach for you what ideas would you have number five a great coaching question how can I help and finally number six as your manager what suggestions to have for me to help me get better and then in between say mutual responsibility I’d say you know mr. mr. Airport once every two to three months I’m gonna spend a little time going over these six basic coaching questions with you if you ever have any questions in between questions about alignment Direction feedback I want you to take responsibility to talk to me if I do my job every two to three months you do your job in between no reason we should have any issues with effective coaching and effective alignment affected gold clarity
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