Should coaches be working with clients who have extreme trauma? What does the data say about the level of skill and competence needed for coaches to adequately work with trauma? In today’s Craft of Coaching episode I’m getting into trauma-informed coaching, where I’ll talk about what trauma is, what to be aware of if clients exhibit trauma, and how coaches can be trauma-informed without overstepping their role.

Coaching Skills for Managers: Motivating Employees gives you 4 coaching skills that managers can use when employees are struggling with a lack of motivation. When you deploy these coaching skills, you can help members on your team who are struggling, and support your role as manager, as well.

A critical coaching for managers skill is the ability to give employee feedback. Managers who struggle to give feedback struggle with communication issues on their teams. Here are 4 ways that managers can use coaching skills to give employee feedback.

As a Manager, you want to coach your employees to solve problems in their own, rather than always needing to solicit you as a manager for feedback. At the same time, you’re wanting to make sure that everyone on your team is functioning collaboratively, without operating in silos—and of course, you also need to make sure that you have efficient ways of keeping projects moving forward.

A coaching skill for Managers that can improve efficiency on your teams is teaching employees the skill of how to problem-solve.