"How you can incorporate coaching into your leadership style?"

Every day you are seeing members of your team. It's an opportunity to observe how they're doing and what are their strengths and development areas. You shouldn't have to wait for their Performance Review to work out what they need to do.

As a manager, your regular catch-ups is an opportunity to develop and grow their skills or help them adjust the way they work. When someone is new it's easy to ask how they're settling in, have they found anything a problem and providing advice.

When more settled staff, asking them if they've got any barriers to completing a piece of work maybe a way to start the conversation and then continue to understand what they've done so far to resolve it. This will allow them to open up and talk through the situation and help them identify where they have got stuck.

Genuinely being interested provides staff with the confidence to know that they can come to you in the future and open up the dialogue about something that's happening and they feel they need a sounding board.

Once you demonstrate this as a way of working, others will copy this creating a buddying system to support each other. As a leader you can have an amazing impact, building a culture of support as well as openness.