Building Interpersonal Skills
Suggested Strategy: Utilizing a Rating Question with GOAL-Based Coaching, you can help bring the person’s awareness to their own interpersonal skills and help them realize how those skills can help them reach their goals.
Suggested Questions:
Î Rating Question: On a scale of one to six, with six representing a complete comfortability in their ability to be open with peers and one being that you completely shut yourself away from your peers, where would you rate yourself and why? Î Risk Question: What risks do you think you might assume by not opening up to your teammates? Î Self-Actualized Question: What actions do you think we could take together to help you reach a six?
Suggested Activities:
Î GOAL-Based Coaching: What does the individual strive to become Great at in their career? What Opportunities might b e afforded to them as a result of becoming great? What Actions related to building their interpersonal skills must the individual take to help bring those opportunities within reach? What will the individual Love about reaching these goals? How do their interpersonal skills specifically tie into reaching their goals? Î Role Play: Practice is the best way to build skill and confidence in those skills. Ask the individual which parts of the definition of great interpersonal skills that they feel they struggle with the most. Practice those pieces in sample conversations that they may have a hard time within an average interaction at work. After each practice scenario, ask the individual to give themselves feedback on what they did really well in that practice to build their confidence.
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