Category Archives: Coaching Managers

Skills, challenges for managers and leaders who are embracing a coaching culture.

No Lame Conference Calls

Good friend and colleague, Byron van Arsdale, an experienced coach, has been working in the area of improving the quality of conference calls, here is his latest work http://budurl.com/7hjf Related Posts Why Coaching? Performance Related Coaching, its relevance and place … Continue reading

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Creating internal coaching capability

Coaching Questions that have proved to be relevant when creating or planning to create coaching capability inside organisations. Some of the questions seem to be difficult to come to terms with, and from experience, when they are answered the end … Continue reading

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Coach Approach to Leadership – Conversations for Success

Conversations for success – I have used this presentation several times when talking to leaders about the nature and benefits of a ‘coach approach’ – also includes tips, behaviours and approaches that work. Coach Approach to Leadership. Related Posts Coaching … Continue reading

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Effectiveness of Expenditure on Learning & Development Programmes

For discussion purposes only Introduction. Management keep a close eye on the costs of most items in their profit and loss account e.g. office rent, salaries, rent and marketing.  The cost of learning and development programmes, including coaching, is usually … Continue reading

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The Manager as Coach

THE MANAGER AS COACH An Introduction to Coaching by RICHARD FOX Preface Coaching and being coached are essential activities for 21st century business leaders and managers.  In an environment of uncertainty, intense competition and globalisation of markets, innovation, creativity and … Continue reading

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Coaching to Manage Performance and Employee Engagement

50% of managers fail to mange poor performance, a recent survey said.  Should we just get rid of those poor performers and hire more talented people?  Oh that we had the luxury … and of course getting rid  of poor … Continue reading

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Building a Coaching Culture

I often get asked about how to build a coaching culture in an organization. Lots of work is one answer, and it starts with getting clear about what you want to see at the end, (doesn’t everything!). The map below … Continue reading

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Building and applying real coaching skills in managers and leaders

For managers implementing the ‘coach approach’ in their everyday busy business life. The approach and effective conversations of a ‘leader / coach’ are often very different to what they learned in the past, not least because it demands a shift from the problem solving behaviours that so many managers have found successful, and have been rewarded for in their organisations. Continue reading

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Why is turning Managers into Coaches so difficult?

The above question attracted by attention and I replied as follows:  (references are at the bottom of the post) Experience tells me that it’s not appropriate to ‘turn managers into coaches’ and that it’s much more relevant to support managers … Continue reading

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Coaching Models–useful or not?

Working recently with an organisation on advanced coaching skills I suggested that the only ‘model’ necessary for them was for the conversation to have a beginning, a middle, and an end. They had previously been drilled in GROW. After their … Continue reading

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