Coachability Overview

The speaker discusses the concept of coachability and encourages defining it as the willingness to receive feedback and be coached. They emphasize the importance of having a specific definition within an organization or team. Seeking feedback regularly and being open and professional about it is highlighted. The speaker suggests involving team members in defining coachability to make them co-authors of the change. Once coachability is defined, the speaker suggests coaching according to that definition. When you think of the term coachability, what does that really mean? Now we can have, just like anything like teamwork or communication, we can all have our own definitions and interpretations. Now as we have in some other audio lessons, we've provided the context to something called define and coach. I would really strongly encourage you to define coachability, the willingness to be coached, to receive feedback thoughtfully, professionally, whatever that definition is. When you have a definition and you have it as an imperative, whether it be within the organization, your department, or specifically your team, it is a great thing to define. Coachability is always seeking feedback a minimum of two to three times a week, always receiving that feedback openly and honestly, thoughtfully and professionally, without judgment, always knowing that we will never fully agree or potentially disagree. Now, I just made that up. Yet when you define it and you give it specificity, we go back to this cliché concept of, then you can inspect what you expect. The great thing to do is to do it with your team members, do it with the people that are on your team. The reason being is when you do that, they become co-authors of the very change they need to make. Now, in addition to that, what that allows you to do is provide an avenue for people to understand what is expected of them and they've actually co-authored it. So once you have your definition of coachability, and we love phrases like seeking feedback one to two times a week openly, thoughtfully, professionally. Remember, give it adjectives of behaviors so that they have accountability within the actual actions. Once you have your definition, then you can start to coach to it.