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Dr. Tasha Eurich on Unleashing Potential through Self-Awareness

HR Digest

As a data nerd in a quantitative field of psychology, I meet a lot of business leaders who say things like, “We wish we could measure the impact of executive coaching, but we can’t.” Dr. Tasha Eurich is an organizational psychologist, New York Times bestselling author, and executive coach.

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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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Strengths-Based Coaching Can Actually Weaken You

Harvard Business Review

I have seen no scientific studies (independent research published in peer-reviewed academic journals) to support the idea that developmental interventions are more successful if they ignore people’s deficits or provide no negative feedback. Of course, absence of evidence does not necessarily imply evidence of absence.

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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.

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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.