I’m going to spend the last few minutes summing up the main points and offering you some coaching tips that hopefully you’ll find useful – whether you are just starting out as a coach or whether you want to improve your coaching skills and learn to be a better coach. First of all, set up regular meetings, one-to-one meetings. That way you’ll develop a relationship with your employee and you’ll be providing him with an opportunity to share his ideas with you. Schedule a series of meetings in advance. You might have to change the date or the time of a meeting but at least then your employee – or coachee will see that you are serious. Don’t fall into the trap of comparing the performance of the person you are coaching with the performance of somebody else. Each individual should be treated as a accordingly. Think carefully about the starting date and the finishing date. Never start coaching until you have built up a relationship with your employee and don’t stop working on that relationship until the coaching stops. Don’t sit across the table from the person you are coaching. This creates an adversarial relationship.