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Adapted from Harvard Business Essentials: Coaching and Mentoring (Harvard
Business School Press, 2004)
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Coaching sessions typically range from 30 minutes to an hour, but they do not have to
be long to be successful. In fact, research from the Corporate Executive Board shows that
there is “no connection between time . . . and effectiveness at development.” 1 Instead of
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Observe signs of growth. Continually assess how your direct report is doing
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If the benefits of customized coaching are so clear, why don’t more managers do it?
Largely because we tend to favor our own learning preferences when we teach others (see
table 11-1). We assume that what works for us will work for everyone else, but that’s just
not the case.
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But then she recognized how she’d contributed to the problem: She hadn’t allowed
people to take enough responsibility for their own development, nor had she considered
their approaches to learning. She turned the situation around by taking the time to identify
her employees’ learning styles and changing her coaching tactics to suit them.
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FIGURE 15-1
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Coaching about performance strategy helps team members stay closely in touch with
changing demands and opportunities in their environment and encourages them to find
ways to implement their chosen performance strategies mindfully and efficiently. Strategy-
focused coaching can also help members find or invent new performance strategies that are
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