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Bernard Liebowitz PhD CMC
Management Consultant, United States
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Overly broad definitions of coaching (and mentoring too) plague discussions around these two topics:
- Coaching can be remediation or developmental, goal-specific or general in coverage, conducted internally or by an outside consultant, by a leader/boss or by someone neutral, behaviorally- or psychologically-oriented. Each has different goals, expectations, usages, value, etc.
- Likewise mentoring -- it might be conducted by someone in the same industry or not, in the same company or not, with specific or general goals, by an outsider or not, etc.
Another way of saying this is that the statements about both fields phrased in general terms without context subject the field to either misunderstanding by those in the field and outside, ridicule, avoidance (by people and organizations that can benefit form either) or worse. (...) Read more? Sign up for free
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Doug Johnson
Business Consultant, South Africa
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Definition of Coaching
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Cynthia Crump
Antigua and Barbuda
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Definition of Coaching
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Sean . Lally
Manager, United Kingdom
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Coaching Definition
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Isaac E. Kruger, HRA
Management Consultant, South Africa
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Coaching Definition Determined by Historical Perspective
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Dumisani Sibandze
Swaziland
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How the Concept of Coaching is Evolving
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Rob Thompson
Coach, United Kingdom
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Coaching Doesn't Exist..
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