Leaders need to be recognized and encouraged as they continue to work on difficult and challenging goals. Building leadership skills is hard work, and if leaders are not encouraged, recognized, and supported along the way, they will likely fall back to their old ways. Coaches can help leaders stay focused, move forward, and develop skills. Consider these recognition coaching tips: Keep the purpose in front of the leader. Remind leaders why they want to acquire leadership ski

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As a coach, you will be asked to share advice about certain decisions, some which will be confidential in nature. Your success in these conversations and through these situations will depend on how well you have and continue to develop a trusting and open relationship. Developing a confidential and intimate coaching relationship is about creating spaces in which the leader feels comfortable bringing their concerns to the conversation. A coach shows the leader respect by liste

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Coaches must balance how they support and balance their leaders, helping them to maintain forward motion to reach their desired goals. Support may come from: Brainstorming ideas for action. Putting your leader in touch with another leader. Role-playing a scenario before the leader acts. Celebrating a key accomplishment. Challenge might require you to: Solicit ideas from the leader to create a better process. Confront the leader about why a deadline was missed. Hold the leader

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NOISE: A Flaw in Human Judgment. Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein. (2021, Kindle Edition) “Noise” is a book about errors in human judgment. The book is co-authored by three renowned experts in psychology, public policy and business strategy. According to the authors, error in judgement is a function of two primary components, bias (systematic deviations) and noise (random scatter, where consistency is desired). While much has been written on the topic of bia