Good coaches make it look easy. But coaching isn't one skill. Managers with high-performing teams know that coaching involves a variety of skills and techniques that help employees think for themselves, "own" problems and feel accountable. We've boiled down coaching and performance management to 30 of the most critical skills and actions that top leaders use to unleash their teams' best performance.

Our Coaching Cards are designed to fit with almost any performance management or coaching training program. Their flexible design allows hundreds of uses!

• Weave them into your existing performance management training program for a fun hands-on activity.

• Energize management team meetings by giving each manager a deck and discussing a coaching tip of the week.

• Customize them with your company logo and distribute them at your next managers' conference.

• Veterans - refresh yourself on "block and tackle" coaching and performance management skills and challenge bad habits.

• New managers - learn the skills that coaching pros use, at a glance.

• Use them as a job-aide following TLG's Performance Management in Action training system.