18: Five Ways to Support People in Learning

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2011

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As leaders, we need to support learning right after it happens. In this episode, I’ll review fives ways you can do this as a leader.

1) Provide opportunities
Find something for them to start to use what they’ve just learned. If you need to, help create opportunities!

2) Review the actions taken
Do a debrief afterwards – particularly if something didn’t work well. The sooner it happens, the more likely it is that you’ll reinforce good habits and correct poor ones. Avoid reviewing things weeks or months after they happen.

3) Inquire about what they are thinking, feeling, or noticing
I mentioned Peter Senge’s Fifth Discipline Fieldbook
You won’t hear much at first but over time you’ll hear people say lots of things

4) Correct the flight plan

5) Use encouragement
Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Dale Carnegie says “Be hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise” in How to Win Friends and Influence People. This is a must read for any leader. Also, review episode #9 from this show for a detailed overview on giving encouragement through recognition.

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0:00.0	You're listening to coaching skills for leaders. This is episode 18,
0:04.0	airing on December 26, 2011.
0:08.0	Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing human potential.
0:13.0	Welcome to coaching skills for leaders.
0:20.0	This is the show for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills so they can help others achieve their maximum potential.
0:26.0	Whether you're a season leader or leading people for the first time,
0:30.0	improving your coaching skills will drive your success and most importantly the success of others.
0:36.0	This week's topic is five ways to support people in learning. Hello everyone and welcome to another episode of Coaching Skills for Leaders.
0:49.3	My name is Dave Stahoviac and I'm coming to you from our studio here in Orange County, California where
0:55.2	it is the day after Christmas and it's warm, sunny and 70 degrees.
1:01.3	Part of my responsibility of living in Southern California is taunting people in the other parts of the
1:06.0	northern hemisphere that live in colder climates this time of the year, but I hope that you'll
1:10.0	indulge me just a bit and I'm not going to be in too much trouble with my family
1:13.8	for doing that this time because my parents and brother are flying out here
1:18.1	tomorrow from Chicago which is where I'm from originally and we'll be here for the rest of the weekend so I know they're
1:24.7	looking forward to enjoying the warm weather with us and I in the meantime I am
1:29.6	enjoying here spending a few minutes with you during this week that many people in the world and who are in business often find is a little lighter week as far as work and certainly things slow down a little bit in the
1:44.8	business and organizational world between Christmas and New Year's regardless of
1:49.8	where you are in the world but it is still an important time for us to keep this conversation
1:55.2	going about how we can continue to build our skills as leaders, and also today to talk about
2:01.4	where this show's going in 2012 and how you can utilize it as part of your development
2:07.0	to help you to continue to be as an effective leader as possible.
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