How to Listen Like a Coach: Coaching Skills Every Manager Needs

While being a coach might not be your day job, if you’re a manager or team lead, then serving as a coach comes with the territory.

Listening is the foundation of being an effective coach, and coaching skills are a great addition to any leader’s toolkit. If you don’t or can’t listen effectively, then you have nothing to work with as a coach or leader and you can’t ask the questions that need to be asked. So how do you listen like a coach?

From this discussion, you’ll learn:

• Skills managers and leaders can learn to become better coaches
• Guidance on how to listen like a coach (listen actively, with curiosity, and attentively)
• Ways the 3 rules of coaching can make you a more impactful leader
• Ideas and practices behind the COACH Framework and how to practically apply it