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MAKING A STRATEGIC TRANSITION TO THE ROLE OF EXECUTIVE COACH
This chapter is for organizational consultants, human resource leaders, or organizational trainers who want to move more into the role of executive coach. This assumes that you have the necessary traits of an executive coach, including those that have been explored in this book, such as the following:
• You know how business functions operate and interrelate.
• You are business and results focused.
• You can make connections between bottom-line results and work relationship behaviors.
• You are an excellent listener and are well versed in basic coaching skills.
• You can steer conversations from the global to the specific.
• You hold a systems perspective.
• You have a strong sense of ...

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