Transitions at Work

Should you as a manager invest the time and effort involved in coaching an employee?

How can you tell when coaching makes sense in dealing with an employee’s problems or challenges?

Here are seven questions you can ask that will help you decide whether coaching is called for.

For each question below there is a yes and no answer button. Read the question and click on both buttons to see where coaching is called for, and where it is not.

Coaching readiness checklist

(The notion of “inner character” has been adapted from a 1996 Harvard Business Review article, “The Executive As Coach,” by James Waldroop and Timothy Butler.)

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