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Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e
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Modern Management: concepts and skills, 14/e

by Samuel C. Certo, S. Trevis Certo
December 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
480 pages
118h 48m
English
Pearson
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Leaders Coaching Others

Coaching is leadership that instructs followers on how to meet the specific organizational challenges they face.44 Operating like an athletic coach, the coaching leader identifies inappropriate behavior in followers and suggests how they might correct that behavior.45 The increasing use of teams has elevated the importance of coaching in today’s organizations, and recent research has begun to identify the leader’s role in fostering a team’s success.47 Characteristics of an effective coach are presented in Table 13.2.

Table 13.2 Characteristics of an Effective Coach

Trait, Attitude, or Behavior Action Plan for Improvement
 1. Empathy (putting self in other person’s shoes)

Sample: Will listen and try to understand ...

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ISBN: 9780134729138