Coaching Tips by Trait - RightPath



RightPath Coaching Tips by Trait

Accommodating Strengths

• Focused on issue and person

• Uses a process to ask questions

• Speaks tactfully

• Listens to coachee

Accommodating Struggles

• Hesitant to ask challenging questions

• Tends to underestimate self and impact

• May lack vision to end goal

Reserved Strengths

• Realistic in expectations

• Persevering

• Focused on issue and person

• Moves towards closure

Reserved Struggles

• Can be curt in approach

• May appear skeptical in considering solutions

• Drained by too much conversation

Challenging Strengths

• Can help coachee think logically

• Likes to challenge ideas to verify the “why”

• Action oriented – calls for action

• Can respond quickly to questions

Challenging Struggles

• May be abrupt

• Can be critical of coaches ideas

• Sometimes too impatient for solution

• Asks challenging questions to move the coachee forward

Spontaneous Strengths

• Able to improvise and flex with coachee

• Responds candidly

• Flexible and versatile; likes change

• Instinctive with questioning

Spontaneous Struggles

• Not naturally organized

• May be overconfident and under prepared

• May overlook important details necessary to move conversation forward

Directing Strengths

• Directly asks the tough questions

• Confident in approach

• Can see big picture and help lead a person there

Directing Struggles

• Can push own opinions on others instead of letting coachee figure it out

• Impatience makes listening a challenge

• Directness may be a turn-off to people who are different

Engaging Strengths

• Tends to connect well with others

• Optimistic in moving a coachee forward

• Tends to use humor to make a point

• Good at promoting action in others

Engaging Struggles

• May talk too much and not let coachee express themselves

• May lack focus

• May display strong emotions

Harmonious Strengths

• Good listener

• Patient, willing to wait for coachee to process thoughts

• Empathetic towards issues

• Open and non-threatening

Harmonious Struggles

• Slow to confront or question an issue

• Often resistant to change

• May not verbalize true questions or feelings

Methodical Strengths

• Organized and scheduled with time and meetings

• Establishes systems for questioning

• Prepares and rehearses carefully

• Analyzes before deciding

Methodical Struggles

• Can be inflexible

• May over prepare but lack confidence

• May focus on details and miss the goal or big picture

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