We are excited to announce our upcoming webinar!
Event Date: 5/17/2018 (2:00 pm EDT- 3:00 pm EDT)
Coaching team members is one of the most under-valued responsibilities of managers. It’s something they feel they do simply by talking with a team member and asking how he or she is doing in their job and giving appropriate “Atta-boys” or “Atta-girls.” Of course, this is very important and it’s sometimes referred to as “emotional nutrition.” However, it’s not coaching in the sense of skill-building and professional development for the employee.
True coaching is one of the most powerful methods of motivating employees, broadening and improving their skills and increasing their retention. It requires a separate set of skills that positions managers as teachers, advisors, and career counselors.
Participants will learn
- What coaches really do
- How to set good performance standards and goals with employees
- How to communicate more effectively using Personality Styles at Work™
- Directive vs. non-directive coaching- which approach to use and when
- The most important principles of adult learning principles
- Methods of skill-based teaching
With a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology and a Master’s degree in Safety Engineering and decades of managing people and processes, Geoff Nichols has a wide and deep background to draw from in helping his training and coaching clients. In his approach to management, training and coaching, he emphasizes the need to use situational leadership and the ability to flex to work colleagues’ and team members’ communication needs in order to be more successful in any job.
Business training has been Geoff’s passion for nearly all of his career. After 20 years of executive experience in Human Resources, training and operations management, he founded his own training and consulting business and has conducted over 1,200 public and private workshops. He has trained more than 30,000 people in a wide range of management and leadership topics. And he has written over 600 customized training programs for hundreds of clients- from large and small businesses to federal and state government agencies to healthcare and non-profit organizations.
Geoff has also written a book titled, “Taking the Step Up to Supervision” and numerous articles in national publications on supervision and management. He has trained throughout the U.S. and in Canada, Puerto Rico, the U.K. and Mainland China.
