How would you coach this employee? For my coaching session I selected one of my co-workers who also happens to be the Marine that I counsel monthly. The hardest part of this coaching section was refraining from trying to tell him how to correct his deficiencies. Although in our monthly counselling's I give him an opportunity to voice how he thinks his performance is I usually just give him the answer on how to improve. During this coaching session I let him decide what the best course of action was for himself and I did not advise him on what I would do if I was in his shoes. Overall, I believe that this remained a coaching session and that both of us learned a lot from the experience. I plan on incorporating this kind of coaching session into our already established monthly counselings (with keeping it separate meetings).