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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

Sometimes that feedback comes from a mentor or in a formal coaching relationship, and other times it’s family, friends, or co-workers who can shine a light on a path forward if we make them feel safe to do so. One-on-one coaching (or executive coaching) is tricky territory.

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The Myth of Potential: 5 Ways to Develop Talent

Great Leadership By Dan

Here's a guest post from executive coach Joel Garfinkle : In high school, I wasn't an amazing athlete, but one of my closest friends sure was. In fact, at GE top executives spend as much as 40% of their time identifying and mentoring their replacements. Most people didn't know it, though. Here's how to start: 1.

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Free Individual Development Plan (IDP) Template

Great Leadership By Dan

Top 3 Strengths: List the employee’s top 3 strengths, from last performance review or other assessments. Top 3 Development Goals: Development goals are areas in which if strengthened, the employee’s performance would improve in their current role or they would help prepare the employee for potential future positions.

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Self-Defeating Behavior

Career Advancement

As Jeremy prepared to give performance reviews for his employees, he was struck by this realization: Most of their shortcomings had nothing at all to do with ability. If you lack trust in your own judgement about what risks are worthwhile, bring your ideas to your supervisor or mentor before you dive in head-on. Procrastinating.

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The Key to Performance Reviews Is Preparation

Harvard Business Review

Writing and delivering performance reviews can be one of the most challenging tasks for any manager. It’s difficult to give a review that successfully navigates the emotional and interpersonal dynamics while also balancing the complex, competing goals that are present in most performance reviews.

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JUST ASK LEADERSHIP: WHY GREAT MANAGERS ALWAYS ASK THE RIGHT QUESTIONS

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RSS Feed Schedule a Call Free E-Book Assessment Test Coffee Schedule Coaching Lunch About Us CO2 Story Our Approach Our Successes Our Executive Coaches Gary B. In turn, the manager was responsible for mentoring, coaching, or developing those employees that showed interest, ability, and tenacity. John Sullivan FORA.tv

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People Skills Are Hard Skills - More Than You Know

Building Personal Strength

One key area of leadership skill involves coaching. But most books on this topic focus on mentoring and executive coaching, not skills for operational leaders. I’ve read dozens of books on people skills, and the best of these focus on only a handful of key skills.

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