17: Four Ways to Help People Use New Skills

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2011

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Helping people utilize new skills they are learning is an essential skill for all leaders. In this episode, I’ll examine four ways you can do this as a leader.

REFRAME

Move people away from just task accomplishment and more towards skill mastery.
There’s a difference between having knowledge and being an strong contributor to an organization.
Challenge people for practical experience.
Challenge them to put what they are learning into action.

RECONNECT

Engage people during regular development meetings (at least once a month – once a week is ideal).
Discouragement and obstacles will happen – we need to provide coaching along the way.
Give perspective by using encouragement and also reward progress (not just results).
Challenge people to compare themselves with themselves.

RENEW

Make things new again.
You can’t know everyone on January 1st – be ready to add in more, make changes, and adapt
Add new challenges and opportunities throughout the year.
Avoid people getting into extremes – either overwhelmed or underutilized.
Especially watch out for underutilized. Overwhelmed is easy to stop – underutilized is often only recognized after a person decides they are leaving.

RETURN

Help them determine how they can return value to the organization.
What can they do to teach others?
What can they do to teach you?
What are new responsibilities that connect back to their long-term goals?

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0:00.0	You're listening to coaching skills for leaders episode number 17 airing on
0:04.8	December 19th 2011. Produced by Innovate Learning
0:09.7	Maximizing human potential.
0:13.0	Welcome to coaching skills for leaders.
0:19.0	This is the show for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills so they can help others achieve their maximum
0:25.0	potential.
0:26.0	Whether you are a season leader or helping lead people for the first time, improving your
0:30.7	coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others.
0:36.0	This week's topic is how to help people utilize new skills. Well hello everybody and welcome back to another episode of
0:47.5	coaching skills for leaders my name is Dave Stahoviac and I'm coming to you from
0:52.0	Innovate Learning Studio here in Orange County, California.
0:55.4	Hope you are having a great week and getting ready for the winter holidays here and I am glad to be back and letting you know real quickly up front
1:06.7	here that my wife Bonnie is doing great. I mentioned in the announcement from
1:11.0	last week that I missed last week show for the first time here and we were in the hospital for a few days
1:16.8	But I'm happy to tell you she's doing great and the pregnancy is proceeding normally and she is on bed rest but we are now doing back to doing some of the fun things we were planning on doing last weekend which is starting to look at cribs and how we're going to decorate the baby room and so it's a really exciting time for both of us.
1:35.6	So thank you again for your patience and letting me do what was most important last week and I'm back this week here with a new show and
1:46.4	this week we're going to be looking at how to help people utilize new skills as a leader and I mentioned a few weeks ago on a previous
1:55.8	episode that this is the time of the year when a lot of leaders are thinking
1:59.9	about people utilizing skills because of course it's performance review time in most
2:05.7	organizations and in fact in many organizations leaders are starting to get to the
2:10.6	end of having written and delivered performance reviews, but that does not mean
2:15.6	by any means it's over because it is going to be very shortly here the start of a new year 2012,
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