The Strathmore Executive
Are you Coaching your People? In many organizations today, managers are asked to coach their direct reports. Would you say, as a leader, that you can heed to this demand successfully? In my years studying and working with companies on this topic, I have observed that many executives are ill-equipped to even answer this question. Why? For one, managers tend to think they are coaching when they’re just telling
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their employees what to do. According to Sir John Whitmore, a leading figure in executive coaching, the definition of coaching is “unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.” When done right, coaching is phenomenal in supporting productivity and
December 2020 Magazine
