Step 1
Prepare Yourself for the Coaching Role
Overview
• What is coaching?
• What isn’t coaching?
• What makes a great coach?
• What stands in your way to effective coaching and how can you address those obstacles?
• Why coach?
In writing this book, I contacted people who had been coached at some point in their lives or careers and asked them what they got out of the experience. Here are some of their responses:
• “My coach was my supervisor at the time. He saw raw talent in me—not formed, not educated—and nurtured that. The biggest thing he taught me is self-awareness, which has made a permanent stamp on me.”—Stacey R.
• “Many years ago, as part of an organizational coaching program, I was asked to develop my own leadership philosophy. I still ...
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