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How to Lead Like a Coach

Harvard Business Review

The modern workplace demands that executives move away from a command-and-control style and instead adopt a model based on the idea of the leader as a coach. Companies have devoted extensive resources to this effort, in the form of time-intensive training programs and expensive new technologies, but without great success.

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Leaders Coaching Leaders: One Secret to Sustainable Leadership Development

Let's Grow Leaders

You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. The Power of Leaders as Coaches. But what if that same sales SVP showed up as an active coach in the process? Leaders coach, and reinforce, the skills they’re learning. ” We get it.

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TaskHuman lands $20M to expand its virtual coaching platform

TechCrunch

TaskHuman , a professional development platform focused on coaching, today announced that it raised $20 million in Series B funding led by Madrona with participation from Impact Venture Capital, RingCentral Ventures, Sure Ventures, USVP, Gaingels, PeopleTech Angels, Propel(x) and Zoom Ventures.

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Coach Your Team and be Even More Effective and Helpful

Let's Grow Leaders

How to be Even More Effective and Helpful as You Coach Your Team. If you’re a manager, you likely hear a lot about not only leading and organizing but also being a coach for your team. Today on Asking for a Friend I talk with Sara Canaday about tips from her new book “Coaching Essentials for Managers.”

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Coach your Architects in Agile Architecture!

Xebia

The agile coaches are concerned with making the organization agile on a process level. And in some transformations, the team also has an agile technical coach who teaches the team new practices and techniques from Continuous Delivery, DevOps, and SRE. Start coaching your architects.

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Rising Team, with $3 million seed, is a platform that combines management tools with training

TechCrunch

But she’s identified a problem that most people managers will all too clearly understand: training and tools to be a great manager are at a shortage. Dulski explained that there are some tools for managers, like surveys from Gallup and Glint, and there are training options, like executive coaches.

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How to Train a Struggling Team Member to Make Better Decisions

Let's Grow Leaders

And it can be incredibly frustrating, especially if you feel they’ve been trained. If they’re not doing things the way you know they need to be done– if there’s a “right way” that matters to make these decisions, they don’t need encouragement or coaching; they need training.