Practical Remote Coaching-Practical-remote-coaching

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Kate from E4 Enable explained a simple, practical coaching approach for sales leaders, especially in changing and remote-working conditions. She stressed that coaching should be regular, scheduled, and treated as sacrosanct, with dedicated one-to-one time separate from forecast or team meetings.  <br /><br />Her four-step method was:  <br />1. Set clear, short-term individual goals focused on the coachee’s needs.  <br />2. Use SMART objectives between sessions to create accountability and progress.  <br />3. Review and give structured feedback consistently.  <br />4. Measure outcomes using both quantitative and qualitative indicators.  <br /><br />She recommended using the GROW framework: Goal, Reality, Options, Will, to guide conversations. Kate also highlighted the value of writing goals down, leveraging team strengths through peer coaching, mentoring, blogs, group sessions, and gamification to build a shared coaching culture.  <br /><br />Technology, she said, makes coaching easier through call recordings, Zoom, and video challenges, though video is important for reading cues and demonstrating active listening.  <br /><br />In Q&A, Kate discussed coaching furloughed staff through learning goals, handling unmotivated individuals by coaching the whole person, and adapting coaching for non-direct reports like partners or resellers.

Keywords

sales coaching

GROW framework

SMART objectives

remote leadership

one-to-one coaching

peer coaching

coaching culture