I went to a presentation by the Center for Creative Leadership about creating coaching cultures recently. I came away with a great 2 x 2 grid that explains the difference between good and great coaching. Some people’s coaching focuses on the problem and the “coach” telling the individual what to do about it – and
Tag: developing people
How Does Coaching Fit into Awakened Enterprise™?
Today’s guest post is from Patrick Ryan, leadership trainer and master coach. This is a great summary about why we would even care about using a coach approach in today’s world. Patrick shares how coaching fits into the emergent, congruent and profitable ways of doing business. The world is currently facing a series of economic
Busting the myths about coaching
I am often asked to recommend a coach to help someone to “fix” a weakness, such as not working constructively with other people. This is one way to think about coaching…that is, that it is remedial. I much prefer to think of it as releasing someone’s potential – focusing on their strengths and how they
What’s stopping us from coaching?
There are many advantages to both coach and coachee of the manager being more coach-like (that is, asking open questions, not giving the answers through advice). For example, the individual becomes more self-sufficient over time, because they have been “taught” to think for themselves, by asking questions. Over time, that frees up the manager to
Performance Coaching and Career Coaching
In companies, I’d suggest that there are two forms of (real) coaching. Why do I add real in parentheses? Because there are so many things that people call coaching, which really are not coaching. Such as mentoring, which is about giving advice based on experience. Coaching is not advice. So what is it? It’s
The Stroke Economy
Your role as a supervisor is to give strokes as you manage your people’s performance. (And when I talk about managing performance, I am not just talking about the once/twice a year performance appraisals – I’m talking about the daily interactions that increase performance). It’s about giving people attention, whether that’s through praise, recognition, thanks,
Focus on the positive
It’s dreadful weather here in the New Forest. So bad that I feel my Seasonal Affective Disorder starting early this year. I don’t get it as badly as some people, but I know it when I feel it now, and I know what to do about it. So my lightbox is on, my dynamis flower
Sunbeam Alert
WOW. I am gob-smacked. Amazed. Shocked. Very pleasantly surprised. Here’s why……in the 30 day challenge, participants touched an average of 6 people each. And since there were 8650 people, that means they had an impact on 52,765 people. What sunbeams. But that’s not all. And here’s the piece that is truly inspiring.
The plot thickens
I started talking yesterday about my epic story and what the single climactic scene might be. I’ve been mulling over that a little more, and now I’m wondering whether I want to be more like Mary Poppins than a Rock Star. In that Mary Poppins helped her charges to learn and grow and then left
