Category: Coaching Corner
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Clarifying Goals and Standards: Coaching Corner
One of the key leadership challenges is to be deliberate about creating clarity regarding goals and standards.
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Coaching When You are in a Hurry
In this article we are going to briefly address the technique to create a rapid reflection process through an idealized dialogue.
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Asking Questions Versus Telling
Socrates described himself as a “midwife to understanding”, believing that while one can assist people to understand things better one cannot make them understand.
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Creating a Trusting Coaching Relationship
One of the challenges facing any coach is to develop an effective relationship with those being coached. Mutual trust becomes a central issue.
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Coaching and the Balance between Reflection and Action
In its most simplistic form, growth is a process that oscillates between reflection and action.
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The Challenge of Coaching
The challenge in coaching is to keep direct reports in a state of constant, incremental, change, and therefore growth, even when they might not always immediately understand the value of further personal stretch.
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Developing the Skill of Receiving Feedback
In this coaching corner article we are going to briefly address some of the more useful ways of receiving feedback.
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Developing the Skill of Giving Feedback
In this coaching corner article we are going to briefly address some of the more useful ways of offering feedback.
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The Value of Closed Questions
In this coaching corner article we are going to briefly address this important conversational skill, that of asking closed questions, with the help of an idealized dialogue.
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Developing Coaching Skills: Asking Open Questions
While there is certainly a place for so-called “closed” questions, it is the “open” questions that stimulate thinking and ongoing dialogue, so these are indispensable to a coach.