Your role as a leader is to get work done through others. You can’t do it all yourself, as we discovered in the yin and yang of task and relationship. That means though that you do need to hold them accountable for results. I’ve been coaching one senior legal leader who wanted to figure this
Tag: trust
Two-Day Countdown: Be More Demanding
On Monday, I wrote about how supervisors and career counsellors could encourage individuals to tell them what the supervisor/CC needed to do to earn the right to coach the individual. A kind of “contracting” conversation if you like. Now let’s think about it from an individual’s perspective. I often hear individuals let their supervisors and
Trust and the conversation gap
We’ve been talking about conversation gaps, and using Two-Day (22/2/2012) to fill those conversation gaps. If you’ve missed the previous blogs about this, catch up here: What will you do to celebrate Two-Day What is a Conversation Gap? Which conversations are most “gappy”? One of the reasons that there may be a gap in
Sick with worry
My gorgeous, eldest bloodhound Katy has just left the house to go to the vet for a biopsy on a lump under her tongue. I am sick to the bottom of my stomach. The vet assures us it probably isn’t cancer as she’s so young, but I can’t help being anxious…and not just about the
Coaching virtually
Almost all of the coaching I do is virtual, and in many cases, I have never even met my coachee face-to-face. So it can be done! Here’s how… The skills – contracting, ethics, powerful questions, listening, trust, intimacy, and presence, direct communication, designing actions and planning and goal-setting, and managing progress and accountability – are
Coaching a career counselee vs coaching a direct report
Today’s post revisits the subject of how to coach a career counselee/mentee vs coaching a direct report. The difference is in the focus, rather than the skills. The skills – contracting, ethics, powerful questions, listening, trust, intimacy, and presence, direct communication, designing actions and planning and goal-setting, and managing progress and accountability – are exactly
Great questions
One of the major elements of coaching is asking questions, such that the other person can come to their own conclusions. I found some interesting quotes about questions this week that I’d like to share with you: Neil Postman “Everything we know has its origins in questions. Questions, we might say, are the principal intellectual
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
Accountability
Colin Brett and Philip Brew at Coaching Development write: “As a coach, you can offer your coachee the opportunity to be accountable. This means that s/he uses you as a kind of witness that they have done something. They decide on a course of action in their session with you, plan the steps they will
On Being Coached
This week’s guest blog comes from Nadine Crowe. She writes… When I joined my company four years ago as an experienced hire, I was given a list of available Career Counsellors in my Workgroup. I asked my then line manager if she knew anyone on the list and she recommended a name. My Career Counsellor
Change of plan
Victoria made a great point yesterday in her comment about sharing the questions with a supervisee before the meeting, so they could have a chance to reflect. And a couple of other comments from a couple of weeks back have struck a chord with me too…Manufreey said that telling the truth, the whole truth and
Big Brother is Watching
Since I found out that Don (big boss) reads my posts, I have this little voice that keeps saying “be careful what you write”. “Protect your reputation”. And I have to shout at myself…STOP, STOP, STOP. I feel very supported by Don, so this isn’t about him. It’s about me, and that voice that tells
