Qualities of an EFFECTIVE Manager, Trainer or Coach

Becoming a good manager/coach means learning to draw on your abilities and skills to train those who need your help. 

Over the years, and more so since I moved into the realm of professional speaking and training I’ve learned the importance of these traits and have been diligently working to enhance them in my own efforts.  I found they work in management situations on the job and in the co-ordination and management of volunteers as well.

Here are some of the traits of successful and effective managers, trainers and coaches.

Good Communications Skills

• Use clear and concise language to instruct, direct and coach
• Use your active listening skills to draw them out and fully understand them
• Maintain eye contact

Solid understanding of the subject

• Comprehensive understanding of the subject or skills
• Willingness to draw from your background as a bridge or foundation to teach
• Willingness to grow and update your professional development

Experience

• It helps if you have done the job personally (and well would be good too)
• Previous experience in training

Patience

• New people can make mistakes while they learn
• It often takes a few tries to get it right (keep up encouragement)
• Remember how it was for you when you started out?

Interest in being a trainer

• You need to ‘truly’ enjoy helping people
• Seeing people grow and learn makes you feel good
• Seeing others’ success gives you a sense of pride and satisfaction

Genuine respect for other people

• People view you as being knowledgeable (you model it)
• People view you as being trustful and trustworthy (you’ve earned it)

Well developed sense of humor

• You see the humor in the situation (you express it)
• You don’t take yourself or life too seriously (you lighten it)

Having these traits and skills won’t guarantee your success as a manager, trainer or coach; but they will give you a better chance to do the job effectively.

If you are committed to building your career and want to move into management, or are already a manager then these traits need to be a part of how you live your life in that role. The more you demonstrate these, the more your staff will respond to your leadership, and the more productive they will become.

Happy Training, Cheers!!!

The Time for love…

As we are floating on a rough time, so it came up to my mind that how it happened, if the feelings itself could be living being. Why not trying & making a story about all the emotions are characterised and see how it comes; so let’s see, here we go…

There was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others, including Love. One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink, so all constructed boats and left. Except for Love.

Love was the only one who stayed. Love wanted to hold out until the last possible moment. When the island had almost sunk, Love decided to ask for help.

Richness was passing by Love in a grand boat. Love said, “Richness, can you take me with you?”

Richness answered, “No, I can’t. There is a lot of gold and silver in my boat. There is no place here for you.”

Love decided to ask Vanity who was also passing by in a beautiful vessel. “Vanity, please help me!”

“I can’t help you, Love. You are all wet and might damage my boat,” Vanity answered.

Sadness also passed close by, so Love asked, “Sadness, let me go with you.”

“Oh . . . Love, I am so sad that I need to be by myself!”

Happiness passed by Love, too, but she was so happy that she did not even hear when Love called her.

Suddenly, there was a voice, “Come, Love, I will take you.” It was an elder. So blessed and overjoyed, Love even forgot to ask the elder where they were going. When they arrived at dry land, the elder went his own way. Love felt relieved that he is in dry land but he has forgotten something real serious. Realizing how much she owed to the elder, Love asked Knowledge, another elder, “Who helped me? I forgot to ask the name!”

“It was Time,” Knowledge answered.

“Time?” asked Love. “But why did Time help me?”

Knowledge smiled with deep wisdom and answered, “Because only Time is capable of understanding how valuable Love is.”

Similarly in the practical life if we start thinking logically, we can find how important love is even after so many stories of hatred are flowing around us. When you think about love, you probably picture couples holding hands or driving off into the sunset together. You might picture yourself falling in love with the one special person of your dreams. You might even have a list of things your perfect mate should embody. The thing is, there are many biological factors that go into “falling in love.” Love is overly romanticized in today’s culture. We can at least give it try to be love able to the next person we are talking to, it can be anyone, be it our housemaid or the homemaker, be it our employee or to our kids, to everyone. In everyday life we are bound to come across many unknown faces around us, but have we asked ourselves that among them how many are still willing to meet us after our first meet? It’s due to our lifestyle which has forgotten to show the warmth, the ‘love’. It because of our dogma that we say can’t. We can come across whatever is happening but we should be remembering that ultimately ‘love’ will always sustain in great civilisation like us, cheers!!!

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‘This post is a part of Spicy Picks, an initiative for Indian Bloggers by Blogadda.’