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Managers Think They’re Good at Coaching. They’re Not.

Harvard Business Review

Are you successful at coaching your employees? In our years studying and working with companies on this topic, we’ve observed that when many executives say “yes,” they’re incorrectly answering the question. The coaching conversations lasted five minutes and were videotaped. years of coaching experience.

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Most Work Conflicts Aren’t Due to Personality

Harvard Business Review

Yet, according to the Association of Test Publishers, the Society for Human Resources, and the publisher of the Myers-Briggs, these assessments are still administered millions of times per year for personnel selection, executive coaching, team building and conflict resolution.

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Most Managers Don’t Know How to Coach People. But They Can Learn.

Harvard Business Review

In our years studying and working with companies on this topic, we’ve observed that when many executives say “yes,” they’re ill-equipped to answer the question. For one thing, managers tend to think they’re coaching when they’re actually just telling their employees what to do.