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What can managers expect from coaches?

20.7.2017 Print

Athletes and artists have coaches, without whom they would never achieve such great results. They have to work hard on themselves, which requires not only technical knowledge but also psychological support. In the business world, it's the same.

Companies are already aware of this fact and therefore offer managers opportunities to work with professional coaches. Employers expect coaches to help their managers better realise their own qualities and further develop these for the benefit of themselves as well as the company.

Today, we'll look at what managers can expect from coaching and in which cases coaches can best help them.

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Where coaches can help

According to clomedia.com, coaches can help managers most in the following areas.

  1. Understanding personal needs, values, strengths and weaknesses.
  2. The art of effective communication with the aim of sharing ideas and information as clearly as possible and with the greatest possible impact.
  3. Enhancing personal influence in promoting goals and ideas, taking into account the wider context of knowledge, interests and readiness of the other people involved.
  4. Setting goals with a clear schedule, specific metrics and the highest possible level of motivation for yourself and others.
  5. Establishing relationships and agreements with individuals and groups to ensure cooperation and responsibility for meeting goals.

Roles coaches play

Coaches play mainly the following roles in managers' development.

  1. They will help you stay on the path to a goal you have set.
  2. They will teach you to see a wider context than immediate goals.
  3. They will help you discover the gaps in your skills you probably know about but have not yet dealt with.
  4. They will offer you an outsider's view from the perspective of different environments they know from their practice.
  5. They will act as a mirror, showing what no one else would tell senior managers.
  6. They will show you your strengths and help you make them even stronger. They will motivate you to do more than you think is possible.

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Article source Chief Learning Officer - a U.S. magazine and website focused on L&D
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