Being a great manager isn’t just about helping individuals reach their full potential—it’s also about leading your team as a unit. Here are three coaching approaches that can help your team develop together and achieve collective goals.

* Problem-based coaching. Treat problems and challenges as opportunities for team development. Rather than stepping in and taking over when a problem arises, encourage your team to work together to solve it—with your availability and support. This approach will lead to accelerated learning, boosted confidence, and a collective investment in the work.

* Discussion-based coaching. Take a Socratic approach to team discussions, asking great questions and giving your team the space to problem-solve and brainstorm in their own way. With this approach, you’ll gain insight into how well team members understand the work and where additional support may be required.

* No-blame coaching. Treating both success and failure as opportunities to learn will allow your team to become more willing to challenge assumptions, admit when something isn’t working, and pivot from mistakes—which, in turn, enables faster and cheaper failures, and bigger breakthroughs.
This tip is adapted from “Coaching Your Team as a Collective Makes It Stronger,” by Sanyin Siang and Michael Canning
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