Short coaching monologue by Nathan Tebedo (Coach Thibodeau) on improving team communication. He advises soliciting direct feedback from team members about clarity and frequency of communication, documenting preferences, and creating a scheduled rhythm (recurring reminders or calendar appointments) to check in in preferred channels.
Foreign. Coach Thibodeau with contractor Coach Pro bringing you a coaching moment. I was thinking about the concept of team communication. How are we communicating? Not just how are we communicating, how well are we doing it? Are we proactive? Are we clear? Are we wasting people's time? Are we not doing it enough? Are we doing it too much? And then I thought to myself, well, how would I know how well I'm communicating with my team? And this brilliant idea occurred to me. Ask them. So I thought, well, I should ask my team. Go to each one of the members of your team, your key people, as well as anybody else who needs to hear from you regularly, and ask them how you're doing. Do I communicate clearly? Do I communicate effectively? Am I communicating often enough? Do you need to hear from me more? Do you need to hear from me a little bit less? And get that feedback from them? And I would write this feedback down and then you may even put specific notes next to specific people's names, maybe about how they like to be communicated with or when. Then what I would do is I'd sit down and I'd write a plan. Write a plan to create a schedule. And what we're really looking for is a rhythm to our communication, something that creates a habit for us to make sure we check in with our people. We also want to make sure that we're checking in with them the way they like to be communicated with. Do they prefer a phone call, a text message, a DM or maybe even an email? Or if there's somebody that you can access regularly and easily, would they prefer just some quick face to face time with you and then create a schedule for it? We got these brilliant little devices in our pocket that can create automated and recurring reminders for tasks or even for putting them on your calendar as an appointment. Then let's get in and build that plan, line it out, hold ourselves accountable, and then increase and better our level of communication. I know I could use it, and I hope this was helpful for you.
