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

Harvard Business Review

According to Sir John Whitmore , a leading figure in executive coaching, the definition of coaching is “unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance. The coaching conversations lasted five minutes and were videotaped. We also asked 18 coaching experts to evaluate the conversations.

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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

For one thing, managers tend to think they’re coaching when they’re actually just telling their employees what to do. According to Sir John Whitmore , a leading figure in executive coaching, the definition of coaching is “unlocking a person’s potential to maximize their own performance.