Step 10

Prepare Your Organization for Coaching

Overview

• Types of workplace coaching

• Who needs coaching?

• Who is the best person to provide coaching?

• Building a coaching culture

Most of this book focuses on the process (the how tos) of coaching. This step is about where you’ll likely do most of your coaching—the workplace. So, what does workplace coaching look like? As my own experience shows, workplace coaching takes many different forms:

• At the City of Redwood City, we trained exceptional managers to become coaches through a program in which we paired them with one of their high potential team members who served as their coaching “guinea pig” throughout the four-month program. Additionally, our leadership programs included an element ...

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