Coaching Personalities

Personalities

Coaching

Highflyers need new challenges. Encourage them to show empathy and understanding to other team members. Be direct if they show impatience and stress the importance of balance to achieve success.

Despite having these qualities, they are easily bored, over-ambitious, ruthless, secretive, and impatient. They may have no balance in their lives.

talented, determined, capable, and gifted

High - flyers

Underachievers need help with their confidence levels and help with taking risks. Determine the source of a poor attitude and get them to face it. Gradual improvements will be made over time. Be patient.

An underachiever may fear failure, lack confidence, or ambition, be lazy, or display a poor attitude at work.

Underachievers don’t reach their true potential, so they can cause frustration to coaches like you.

Underachievers

Plodders are often coerced into coaching or only take part if the rest of the team is coached. There’s a limit to what you can do for them. The best approach is to concentrate on one thing they enjoy most and allow them to work in a niche.

They don’t inspire but they don’t cause problems either. Although content, they lack the potential shown by the underachiever.

Plodders work steadily but with little enthusiasm or interest for what they do.

Plodders

As a coach, you need to be honest with those lacking talent. Give them an honest assessment and estimate their true skills and aspirations. Focus on areas in which they are under-performing and the causes of concern.

They may have the wrong attitude or inadequate skills, or they may be disillusioned or out of their depth. Example: disorganized secretary, careless programmer.

Lack-talents are people who aren’t suited to the jobs they do.

Lack - talents