Chapter 18Growing Your Skills as a Coach
The experienced race car driver is thoroughly attuned to the unique capabilities of the car he is driving. He knows how the car takes corners and how it responds to a tap on the brake or pushing the accelerator to the floorboard. Experience has taught him how fast he can take corners before the car fishtails or spins out of control. The car is the vehicle of the driver’s success or failure in both meanings of that word.
The instrument that coaches use to succeed is themselves, including their worldview, their attitude toward people, their view of what motivates people at work, their models of human behavior, their own idiosyncrasies, and their overall persona.
THE NEED FOR SELF-AWARENESS
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