{"id":2166,"date":"2017-03-07T10:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-03-07T18:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/?p=2166"},"modified":"2023-02-24T20:34:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:34:34","slug":"captain-hindsight-cliff-notes-coaching-hands-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/oh365eh\/2017\/03\/07\/captain-hindsight-cliff-notes-coaching-hands-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Captain Hindsight &#8211; Cliff Notes for Coaching &#8211; Hands-on Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>What I&#8217;ve learning (and wish I had known in hindsight) about being a good coach is:<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong>Hands-On Practice:<\/strong><\/p>\n<div>Whenever possible train them in their own environment &#8211; at their desk looking at their computer screen, using their program, and applying the task to a real item on their to-do list.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>This makes the action relevant to their day-to-day activities. When they think &#8220;<em>I can actually use this to do my job!<\/em>&#8220;, they will be eager to remember it.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>If the coaching topic can&#8217;t be done on real data, use a dummy account, but make the scenario real for them. They have to give a shit.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>For example: &#8220;<em>Next week, when you are asked to add a new user to the Admin Centre, what is the first thing you&#8217;re going to need to do?&#8221;<\/em><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>Show them once, have them do the action at least twice to make it stick.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>This is the third of five &#8216;captain hindsight&#8217; blog posts about things I wish I knew when I started coaching. <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/oh365eh\/2017\/03\/04\/cliff-notes-for-coaching-a-captain-hindsight-blog-post\/\">Click here<\/a> to read the other four posts in the blog series.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What I&#8217;ve learning (and wish I had known in hindsight) about being a good coach is: Hands-On Practice: Whenever possible train them in their own environment &#8211; at their desk looking at their computer screen, using their program, and applying the task to a real item on their to-do list. &nbsp; 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