Skills Coaching
Skills coaching has some commonalities with one-to-one training. Skills coaches combine a holistic approach to personal development with the ability to focus on the core skills an employee needs to perform in their role. Skills coaches should be highly experienced and competent in performing the skills they teach. Job roles are changing at an ever increasing rate. Traditional training programs are often too inflexible or generic to deal with these fast moving requirements. In these instances one-to-one skills coaching allows a flexible, adaptive, just-in-time, approach to skills development. It is also possible to apply skills coaching in live environments rather than taking people away from the job into a classroom where it is less easy to simulate the job environment. Skills coaching programs are tailored specifically to the individual, their knowledge, experience, maturity and ambitions and are generally focused on achieving a number of objectives for both the individual and the company. These objectives often include the individual being able to perform specific, well-defined tasks whilst taking in to account the personal and career development needs of the individual. Skills coaching is not the same as the approach to on the job training. What differentiates it is that like any good personal or professional development intervention, it is based on an assessment of need in relation to the job-role, delivered in a structured (but highly flexible) manner, and generates measurable learning and performance outcomes. This form of skills coaching is likely to focus purely on the skills required to perform the job function even though it may adopt a facilitative coaching approach instead of a ‘telling’ or directive style. Are you a ‘Coach’? Are you a business personal or professional coach? we would like to hear from you, write us at admin@contemporaryvacom Professional-Coaches.com
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