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Does Coaching Your Employees Feel Awkward? Here’s Why + Another Way
Telling Doesn't Work There has been a gradually increasing awareness among leaders that telling people what to do all the time doesn’t build the adaptive capacity of a team. This management style may be faster in the short term, but it creates a dependency that is...
3 Questions You Need to Ask at Your Next Meeting
How often do you meet with your direct reports? If you don’t have any, how often do you meet with your boss? What is the nature of these conversations? Are they rambling and unstructured or is there a set agenda? Who does most of the...
Grasping Your Current Condition: I don’t know how!
The Challenge We were in the planning stages of new Improvement Kata story board in a small outpatient doctor’s office. I was coaching the coach, a director was in the coach role and the manager of the clinic, Ellen, was in the learner role. Ellen was...