Category: Coaching

I used to believe that in order to get managers, superintendents and supervisors to be ‘better’ at interacting with their teams in-the-field, ‘better’ at safety leadership, ‘better’ at understanding what safety is all about et cetera, you needed to firstly train them and then get someone in to periodically coach them to make sure they …

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Coaching 101 Quite often, people in management positions reckon they are great coaches. In reality, they are more likely to be great advisors, tellers, maybe mentors, guides, teachers, instructors or leaders and of course, managers. Whilst all of these activities are value adding in the right context, none of them are ‘coaching’. Coaching is such …

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I actually like the definition of mentoring as found in Wikipedia: “Mentorship is a personal developmental relationship in which a more experienced or more knowledgeable person helps to guide a less experienced or less knowledgeable person. However, true mentoring is more than just answering occasional questions or providing ad hoc help. It is about an …

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