CoachApply Master for Jacksonville Public Library

→ Role Play: Practice! Facilitate role play situations to practice transactions and interactions with members. Both you and the

individual you are coaching should play both roles as the employee and

as the member so that this person can see both sides of the

conversation. This helps them understand what it’s like to be on the

member’s end of the conversation.

Suggested Learning Projects:

→ Peer-to-Peer Coaching: Assign the individual to meet with a peer once per week to practice their conversational abilities. After each

practice conversation, ask the individual to ask their peer to give them

both positive and constructive feedback. They should email you with

this feedback, as well as provide a strategy for improving the parts that

got the constructive feedback, and how to reinforce the parts that got

positive feedback.

Supplemental Coaching Strategies:

→ 30-Second Coaching: Using positive reinforcement, take 30 seconds out of your day to verbally acknowledge efforts and/or improvements

made by the individual when you have the opportunity to observe a

positive, conversational interaction between the individual you are

coaching and a member. Be specific in sharing with the employee the

actions that you had observed and how their efforts will be beneficial to

not only the employee, but to the team as a whole.

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