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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. That all seems a bit much.”

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Metafy lands $25M to scale its gaming coaching platform

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Metafy , a startup that operates a marketplace for video game coaching, announced this morning that it has closed a $25 million Series A. Since that funding event, Metafy acquired rival games coaching platform GamersRdy, and the company said coaches using its service grossed over $1 million last year. million seed round.

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Leland breaks into the coaching space with a focus on careers, not classes

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The coaching world is crowded. There’s BetterUp, a re-skilling platform that wants to bring executive coaching to employees , and Sounding Board, which mixes SaaS and coaching services. The company says that, in the last nine months, hundreds of customers have purchased more than 2,500 hours of coaching on Leland.

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Executive coaching from seasoned CIOs makes the difference

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Many of these leaders also leverage executive coaches to maximize strengths, address blind spots, and anticipate potential landmines and unintended consequences. They engage their coach as sounding board and thought partner to work through real-world issues, expand their toolkit and playbook, and decide the best path to take.

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Deal Dive: AI relationship coach Amorai offers more questions than answers

TechCrunch

The startup has built an AI relationship coach to help people grow and foster real-life connections by offering advice and answers to relationship questions. Of course, investors know more about the company than what is released, and sure, these concerns can serve as feedback for the startup.

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Coaching IT pros for leadership roles

CIO

I spoke to IT executives and leadership coaches for tips on how to develop the leaders on your team. Start coaching You can teach someone to code, manage money, and complete the tasks of being a manager. But the transition from teacher to coach can be challenging. “I I switched from teaching to coaching,” he says. “I

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Medley, the coaching platform for personal and professional development, gets $3.7M led by a16z

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Medley , the group coaching platform that focuses on both personal and professional development, announced the close of a $3.7 The platform launched back in July of 2020 with the goal of facilitating small group discussions led by a professional development coach. million seed round led by a16z today.

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