Why you should train your managers how to coach | Issue #229
Why managers need to coach, not manage, in a fast-growing business
Stop for a moment and think. Call to mind a manager in your business. Someone who you promoted but isn’t performing as you’d hoped. I bet that you promoted them because they were a great sole contributor. Your best salesperson or developer, maybe? Am I right?
This is so common. We see it all the time in the businesses that we coach. People are promoted to management for being great at their areas of specialisation. But that doesn’t make them good managers. Often the skills they need are entirely different from the ones they’ve acquired in the past.
This matters. Poor management will result in dipping staff morale, sliding engagement, low levels of productivity and, ultimately, stagnation. All these spell disaster to any plans you might have for scaling your business.
So what should you do? Our advice is to build a culture of coaching rather than command and control.
Changing Lives Through Excellent Teaching with Hazel Pulley & Jonathan Smart
This week on The Melting Pot, we learned from Hazel Pulley and Jonathan Smart, CEO and Deputy CEO at Excelsior MAT, a multi-academy trust, currently with six primary schools in innercity Birmingham in their portfolio. ExcelsiorMAT is one of the teams that we’ve worked with at Monkhouse & Company, and we’re deeply proud of their amazing transformation over the past few years. Hence why we wanted them to join us on the show to share with us the keys to their incredible success.
In this episode, we hear from Hazel and Jonathan about their journey applying the Scaling Up framework and how it radically transformed their organisation. They also dived into how they managed to change the business without raising salaries or changing the team. This episode is a true testament to great leadership, making the right decisions and building an amazing culture.
Download and listen to this fascinating episode to learn more.
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Mind Your F**king Business
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- Turn your existing leaders into A-players and become ten times more productive.
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Quote of the week
“When you build a coaching habit, you can more easily break out of three vicious circles that plague our workplaces: creating overdependence, getting overwhelmed and becoming disconnected.”
Michael Bungay Stanier
Dominic Monkhouse
Dominic offers business coaching and management development, strategy planning and organisational change, using tried and tested methods to launch your organisation onto an unparalleled growth trajectory. His programme is a function of his broad experience, his deep expertise and a proven process used by over 2,700 firms worldwide.