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How to Participate in Your Employee’s Coaching

Harvard Business Review

Once upon a time, executive coaching was viewed as a remedial intervention for executives and managers who needed to be “fixed” in some way. Coaching was even sometimes viewed as “outsourcing” the management of a difficult employee. Be blunt with the coach – blunter than you would be with the coachee.

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How to Participate in Your Employee’s Coaching

Harvard Business Review

Once upon a time, executive coaching was viewed as a remedial intervention for executives and managers who needed to be “fixed” in some way. Coaching was even sometimes viewed as “outsourcing” the management of a difficult employee. Be blunt with the coach – blunter than you would be with the coachee.