Coaching Skills YOU Can Use In Your Digital Agency - Chris Simmance
Coaching is a key skill for any leader in an agency. It involves helping your team reach their full potential by providing guidance and support as they work towards their goals. At its core, coaching is about being curious, delivering feedback effectively, and keeping people to account.
When coaching a team in your agency, it's important to remember that everyone on the team has different strengths and challenges, so it's essential to tailor your coaching approach for each individual or group of colleagues. At the end of the day, coaching is all about helping people reach their potential.
When used correctly, coaching strategies and skills can help create a culture of growth and development that improves individual capabilities and encourages the entire team's success. By engaging employees in constructive conversations, providing feedback, and inviting collaboration, agency leaders can foster an environment that unlocks the creative potential of their agency.
Listen to Chris Simmance to learn more about how to coach your team as an agency leader. Here is an introduction from his article in the Agency Growth Book:
"Get more from yourself, your team and your clients…
Coaching isn't just for coaches! Coaching skills can be used daily to help you support your team, keep clients longer and improve yourself on a personal level. In this article, I'll run through some areas that may seem simple at first but are hard to master. – these will all help you as you grow your business.
The most important areas of coaching that you can work on consist of:
Listening
Being Curious
Delivering Feedback
Keeping people to account
All of these seem easy on the face of it, listen more, ask more questions, tell people your thoughts and ask them to deliver... NOOOOOT so simple in practice; here's why..."
