They key to effective leadership coaching is to get people to do what they wouldn’t do otherwise.  This is the crux of motivation.  Ideally, the entire team needs to experience motivation in a way that amplifies each individual’s motivation.  This creates a powerful team and requires good leadership skills.  What are the key elements in coaching a team?

Five Key Elements to Effective Leadership Coaching1

1. Create an Environment Where People Get Their Needs Met.  Just as individuals have a drive to get their basic needs met, groups or teams also experience a drive to get their needs met as a group.  The basic needs are certainty, significance, variety, and love and connection.  Members of a team may play different roles, but the leadership coaching goal is to create synergy.  For example, one member might be all about creating harmony and connection in a group, while another might bring a great deal of certainty to the group because of her experience.
2. Create an Environment Where People’s Values are Appreciated.  Having a business run entirely by a group whose highest value is selfless contribution to others might be devastating to in a sales team, but for a medical office it might work.  Allowing a team member who values beauty for beauty’s sake to make some modifications to the décor of a waiting area or conference area may be a win-win for all involved.  Leadership is about utilizing the strengths of the individuals and creating a cohesive team.
3. Create an Environment Where the Goals Are Clearly Defined.  People are motivated to achieve goals, but often employees are the last to know what the outcomes are.  Team behavior is also motivated by the goals that individual members intent to achieve as well the common goals.
4. Create an Environment With Accountability.  An effective team needs performance and behavioral standards, as well as a means for holding itself accountability to these standards.  There is much less incentive to perform without a system for tracking progress and results.
5. Create an Environment With Incentives and Rewards.  Team memory has a life of it’s own.  Just as individuals remember successes, with effective leadership coaching you can create a positive memory of wins and accomplishments within the team.  This enhances motivation to support each other in common goals.

Persistence Pays Off1

Effective leadership coaching requires that the team be inspired into preserving through thick and thin.  When tasks require long periods of time before they are completed or are tedious, a team that works well together has a huge advantage.  The benefit of creating a powerful team is that together they can weather storms that would tear apart a lesser team.

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Colette Seymann

JTS Advisors Bi-Designated Strategy and Accountability Coach