Coach Your Team

Abstract

While this article focuses on the PM as coach, there is also the trainer as coach. As PM, your coaching responsibilities are much greater and cover a much broader area. (1) Managers coach their people as a part of their job, although a training coach can come from another functional area. (2) Coaching takes place within the formal manager-employee or trainer-trainee relationship. (3) It usually occurs in the workplace or an environment designated for training. (4) The focus of coaching is to develop individuals within their current job-to increase specific skills, knowledge, or understanding they need to fulfill their duties. (5) Managers tend to initiate and drive the relationship; this is true even in the trainer-trainee situation. (6) The coaching relationship may last a long time; but it is finite, ending when an employee has learned what was being taught-though it can, of course, continue for new skills. (7) Managers have wider responsibilities as a coach than others.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2011
Accession Number
ADA535507

Entities

People

  • Wayne Turk

Organizations

  • Defense Acquisition University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Employment
  • Environment
  • Feedback
  • Information Operations
  • Management Personnel
  • Management Training
  • Military Acquisition
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Professional Development
  • Project Management
  • Students
  • Trainees
  • Training

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).