Coaching

Make Everyone a Coach

Every organization wastes their most valuable development resource - the team. The simple fact is that everyone in the org has knowledge...

Identify Bad Managers

Companies spend billions of dollars on leadership and management training a year. All with the intention of making managers better. It...

Communicate a Development Path for High Potentials

Companies like to make a big deal about identifying and developing "high potential" employees. These are the people that the company...

Everyone Needs a Coach

Having been playing and watching sports all my life, the idea of a coach was normal. It didn't matter how experienced you were, a coach...

Write Down Your Coaching Info

Here is an exercise I recommend: Writing down your coaching info. I recommend doing this once a month, but it should be at least once a...

Great Coaches Ask Questions

Coaching is a balance between sharing what you know (telling) and guiding the individual to learn things on their own. This requires the...

When Does Feedback Turn Into Coaching?

While there can be a great deal of overlap, feedback and coaching are different things. They both strive to change behavior. To me, the...

The Best Type of Coach

As a manager, you should have a coach when you learn a new skill and you should set the expectation that your team will have coaches when...

The Hardest Part of Coaching

Coaching employees, in my opinion, is not only incredibly effective, but it is fun. The ability to share my knowledge with them and help...