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Coaching By Managers and Leaders
Graf, Robert, Business Consultant, Austria, Member
I've been a long time manager in multinational companies and I am since 8 years a self-employed business coach. As a professional coach I support my coachees in finding their own solution of their own problems. Their solution is completely neutral to me.
Managers and leaders can use coaching methods and attitudes to help and facilitate their co workers to find solutions for their problems and questions. But by definition a manager/leader can´t be a coach as such solutions must be accepted by the leader - he/she is not in a neutral position.
So coaching from a leader's perspective facilitates solution focused thinking, participation and "growing" of the coworker - if the leader wants to develop the coworker. In some cases leading is the preferred method (e.g. emergency situations, new co workers, single time opportunities, etc.)....
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Coaching versus Supervising
Alidou Moussiliou, Coach, Benin, Member Leaders can be supportive to their subordinates if they are able to distance situations and make a difference between coaching and supervising....
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Coaching versus Supervising
Glenn Marshall, HR Consultant, Qatar, Member An internal coaching role is often mandatory, and the atmosphere becomes a supervisory one.
Indeed as suggested by Alidou Moussiliou it is better...
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Coaching by Managers
Charles Oloo, Liberia, Member Coaching can be detrimental if not handled properly.
Personal prejudices, supervisory influences and the coaching environment play signifi...
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Coaching by Managers and Leaders
Madhukar Sakorkar, HR Consultant, India, Member I agree with you. Using coaching methods leaders can help a person to further enrich a solution, however, this may not be the solution the leader pref...
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Coaching Versus Supervision
Prakash Deshpande, Professor, India, Member In a business set up the supervisor's primary unwritten job description is coaching. But that should be limited to polishing the behavio...
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Leaders Must Be Coaches
Lloyd Madzokere, Student (Other), Zimbabwe, Member In the book 'Becoming a Leader' by Myles Munroe, he describes leadership as:
"The ability to inspire others to become and fulfill ...
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Managers as Coaches
JAMIE LOCKWOOD, United Kingdom, Member It sounds like there is a whole debate to be had around how coaching fits with a managers responsibilities.
I work in management developme...
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Effectiveness of Coaching by Managers & Leaders
COL SUNDER LALVANI, Coach, India, Member Coaching aims to improve performance at work or facilitate achievement of life-goals.
A coach is obliged to keep the coaching process with a clie...
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Coaching
JAMIE LOCKWOOD, United Kingdom, Member Depends on your definition of coaching!...
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Switching the Management Cap and Leader Cap
Madhukar Sakorkar, HR Consultant, India, Member I completely agree with you, Blanche. I like the metaphor of a manager possessing two 'caps'.
There is a time for wearing the managerial cap
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Coaching by Managers and Leaders
Sonny Vicente, Coach, Philippines, Member I have worn both hats, being a manager and much later, as a consutant-coach. I believe managers and leaders with the right coaching knowledge and skil...
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Benefits of Coaching by Managers
Kasper Hiddema, Student (University), Netherlands, Premium Member There are managers who coach and managers who don’t. Those that fall into the second category are not necessarily bad managers, but they are missing a...
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4 Coaching Profiles of Managers
Jaap de Jonge, Editor, Netherlands Research by Gartner distinguishes 4 types of coaching performed by managers:
- TEACHER MANAGERS: They coach employees based on their ow...
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