Managers Can Get a
Career Boost from a Good Coach
Employee coaching traditionally has
been seen as an intervention for improving particular
employees’ job performance, today it is used for wider
purposes. In fact, in a survey conducted by
Philadelphia-based Right Management Consultants, a
global subsidiary of Manpower Inc., only 15 % of
responding organizations said correcting behavior
problems was their top reason for providing coaching
for employees. The top reason, for 38 percent of the
respondents, was to sharpen the leadership skills of
high-potential individuals.
The focus is to help people be more
successful in their careers by helping managers
develop stronger leadership skills, working to close
the gaps between where they are in leadership skills
and where they need to be to achieve their goals.
In the initial stages of a coaching
relationship, it’s crucial for both parties to develop
clear, specific professional and personal objectives
for the person being coached. The desired outcomes may
include specific goals such as acquiring stronger
negotiation or consensus-building skills.
To be effective this cannot be a
passive endeavor. Individuals being coached need to be
committed to being honest, forthcoming and engaged in
the process. Hiding problems you don’t think are
important to bring up is not going to get the best
return on investment. Members need to put it all out
there in terms of what you think the issues are and be
open to feedback.
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The
demands on your leaders continue to increase. The bar is
going up … what are your plans to deal with these
challenges?
Cognition
Network's service is directed at proactively equipping leadership
teams for the challenges they face by challenging each other to keep
raising the bar, increasing the level of trust and transparency,
encouraging fresh perspectives, breakthrough ideas and innovative
solutions, demonstrating a bias for strategic change, reawakening
creativity, developing a shared sense of urgency, enhancing the
team’s level of cohesion and collaboration along with creating a
forum for validating decisions.
Your leadership
team will show demonstrable progress in their leadership and
professional development.
Members create
and execute development plans that support organizational objectives
and address their needs for soft, technical & business skills
utilizing a library of development planning and execution resources.
Cognition
Network’s delivery model overcomes the weaknesses of traditional
approaches creating accountability to the executive sponsor, other
workgroup members and to the members themselves. Accelerated
leadership development takes place through use of advanced problem
solving and issue management methods. |
