Focus Magazine - Fall 2017 - 36

LEADERSHIP/MANAGEMENTDEVELOPMENT

Revolutionize Your
Coaching Action Plans
■ By Marcy Lantzy

As trainers, how
can we improve
manager coaching,
pull-through training
and consistent
coaching?

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I

remember when I became a first-line
manager. Before that, I'd been a successful
sales professional and trainer who had
completed a manager assessment class. Backed
by insight gained during my sales trainer role, I
began my initial first-line management
training. I learned how to interview, the basics
of legality and compliance and the training
around the coaching model including giving
feedback. en I promptly started my field
rides and coaching.
Aer a few months, there was a regional
meeting where I sat with one or two fellow
newer managers, and a few with years of
experience. We asked our experienced
colleagues to identify what "good" looks like
and what to give people as a coaching plan to
improve. ey did not have an answer other
than you learn over time. We thought it would
be cool if someone would help define what
good looks like at each step of the rating scale
and share proven techniques on how to

increase the impact of the field contact report.
Having worked with many organizations the
past 12 years, I've heard the same thing from
other first-line and even second-line managers.
Companies have since evolved and some
demonstrate observable behaviors of what good
looks like at different parts of their rating scale,
which is a great start. But I rarely see shared
ideas for action plan tasks. While there is formal training that may be self-paced, I am referring to what sales professionals can do on their
own time and how a manager can follow up.
As trainers, how can we improve manager
coaching, pull-through training and consistent
coaching?
One way is to provide proven ideas that can
be applied to coaching plans. Sales
professionals oen improve on the job and
through action items given during a field ride.
Beyond formal training, either self-paced or
live, managers must create those ideas. Yet,
every action item needing improvement may
not be a formal training.
Two examples of a coaching plan task for
sales professionals working to improve probing
skills could be creating five effective probing

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LTEN Focus on Training Magazine
From the President: Reducing Scrap Learning
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Guest Editor: Training Effectiveness vs. Performance Management
Directions: Fall Behind?
Front of the Room: Lessons from My Painter
Otsuka: Reinventing the National Meeting
Two Steps to Openings that Give Control
Building and Engaging Workforces with R-E-S-P-E-C-T
Change Agility: A Winning Capability at All Levels
Revolutionize Your Coaching Action Plans
Gamification, Game-Based Learning & Rep Engagement
Lateral Thinking
Virtual How: The Evolution of Learning Engagement
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