{"id":292,"date":"2015-01-26T11:30:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/?p=292"},"modified":"2015-01-26T11:31:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T17:31:52","slug":"6-top-reasons-managers-dont-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/6-top-reasons-managers-dont-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Top Reasons Managers Don\u2019t Coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your #1 priority as a Manager is to develop your people.\u00a0 Building a \u201cteam of ultimate fighters\u201d isn\u2019t going to happen overnight.\u00a0 However, by implementing a step by step approach over time, you will have a winning team, and be able to make quicker decisions.\u00a0 Being a coach is a vital part of your job.\u00a0 Not only do your employees look to you for direction, they need on-going coaching to understand and measure where they are today, and what steps to take to achieve greatness.<\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><em>\u201cEffective coaches focus on what they can do now to make what they want to happen in the future happen.\u201d<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Jim Stanley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Most managers unfortunately point out every time an employee does something wrong, but don\u2019t give out praise when someone does something correct or good.\u00a0 The problem with that is employees end up feeling demoralized instead of encouraged.\u00a0 Also, if a company does not give employees tools to succeed and a road map for success, how realistic is it to expect greatness? Why do you think most managers don\u2019t implement \u201ceffective coaching?\u201d\u00a0 Below you will find the typical <strong><strong>barriers preventing Managers from coaching:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><strong>Inappropriate Timing \/ Poor Time Management<\/strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Competing Pressures:\u00a0 <\/strong>Managers have A LOT to juggle<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lack of Reinforcement<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fear of Coaching<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Inadequate Models<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lack of Follow Through<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Even though there may be many excuses on why\u00a0you don&#8217;t take the time.\u00a0 They are just that &#8211; EXCUSES.\u00a0\u00a0You need to make it a priority\u00a0to coach your people.\u00a0 The benefits come back to you ten fold.\u00a0 Great teams are built by having an effective coach.\u00a0 If you need to have a roadmap and examples of how to do that, attend our Advanced Sales Manager class (<em>in Alliance with Pros Elite Group<\/em>).\u00a0 We go over how to be an effective coach, the benefits on why you want to do that.\u00a0 And we take the time to look in the mirror to see what areas you can work on to raise the bar.\u00a0 For more information on this class call Tammi Ashburn at 847-975-1348 or <a href=\"mailto:tammia@melissawhitakerintl.com\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">tammia@melissawhitakerintl.com<\/span><\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your #1 priority as a Manager is to develop your people.\u00a0 Building a \u201cteam of ultimate fighters\u201d isn\u2019t going to happen overnight.\u00a0 However, by implementing a step by step approach over time, you will have a winning team, and be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/26\/6-top-reasons-managers-dont-coach\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[107,53,82,99],"class_list":["post-292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mwi-news","tag-coaching","tag-excellence","tag-sales-management","tag-top-performers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissawhitakerintl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}