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Is Coaching Soft? — Using Coaching to Get Hard Results

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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Is Coaching Soft?

One of the myths about coaching that I still meet regularly is that coaching is soft and just about “personal stuff”. The people with this misconception will typically dismiss coaching as something that is a distraction from delivering business results.

In his guest post, Jan Bowen-Nielsen dispels this myth.

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Filed Under: How to Grow Leaders Tagged With: Business Coach, Business Results, Coaching, Coaching and Mentoring, Coaching Questions, Guest Blogger, Guest Post, High Performing Team, Improve Team Performance, Jan Bowen-Nielsen, Leadership, Leadership That Gets Results, Leading Teams, Soft Skills, Team Coaching

How to Shape Effective Coaching Questions

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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Coaching Challenges How People Think

Coaching works.

In fact, it’s still the best method for encouraging people and teams to reach their full potential. Coaching helps the team grow. It encourages self belief and self-development, and promotes self-sufficiency in the team.

Stick with me and I will give you concrete guidance that’ll have you asking the right coaching questions and see the team grow.

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Filed Under: What Leaders Need to Do Tagged With: Coaching, Coaching Questions, GROW Model, Improve Team Performance, Reach Their Full Potential, Self Development, Team, Team Performance

The Difference Between Coaching and Mentoring

by Vicky Webster and Martin Webster (Eds.) 

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The Mentor Helps the Learner Discover their Wisdom

The aim of this short article is to provide clarity for those in a workplace developmental relationship such as mentoring.

That is, to understand the difference between coaching and mentoring. However, this is not straightforward since there is often much confusion of definitions between practitioners.

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Filed Under: How to Grow Leaders Tagged With: Article, Coaching, Coaching and Mentoring, Learning, Mentor, Mentoring

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