Why Should Managers Learn Coaching Skills?

BUCURESTI - 10 decembrie 2013

Comunicat tip General in Afaceri, HR, Cursuri

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Alain Cardon, MCC, answers.
„ The question should really be: What do managers need? Having a good diagnosis of a need is paramount to looking for solutions.  Different managers need different training to acquire different theories and useful skills.  Then, there is a generalization process.  What is the common need for managers for managers in a team, in a department, in a company.  There too, conclusions may be very different.  Consequently, before proposing any individual or collective solution, a shared diagnosis with the concerned manager, team or organization will help develop awareness of underlying management needs. After that, looking for and finding solutions becomes appropriate. ...

Why Should Managers Learn Coaching Skills?
  To use a sports metaphor, seminars teach students theory about muscle and concepts on how to develop them. Workshops offers active workout environments to build muscle and develop a personal style. Workshops are practical sweatshops or work-out rooms. 

Alain Cardon - Master Certified Coach

Coach training workshops are paper-and-slides-free behavioral learning environments providing each participant an active context to acquire very practical and pragmatic skills.  In these workshops, participants learn by doing and practicing rather than by absorbing knowledge about practice.

Indeed, workshops fundamentally differ from most seminars.  The privileged approach in workshops is not focused on theory nor on concepts but on physically or behaviorally acquiring skills by repeatedly experimenting competencies until they become a second nature: they become natural built-in communication reflexes.  To use a sports metaphor, seminars teach students theory about muscle and concepts on how to develop them.  Workshops offers active workout environments to build muscle and develop a personal style.  Workshops are practical sweatshops or work-out rooms. ”

Interesting? To find out more, take a short break and read the article „Why Should Managers Learn Coaching Skills” by Alain Cardon, MCC:

http://www.metasysteme-coaching.ro/romana/leadership-and-management-issues-in-romania/#sum4358

 

Alain Cardon is Master Certified Coach (MCC), International Coach Federation (I.C.F.), B.A. Social Sciences, Macalester College, Minnesota, USA. Educational Psychology at the U. of Minnesota, USA. Former member of the Institut Français d’Analyse Transactionnelle (I.F.A.T.), « expert » in l’Association Progrès du Management (APM), author (of twelve books) at the Editions d’Organisation, Paris, France, consultant and coach.

Systemic Executive Coach. Team coach and organization coach specialized in accompanying transitioning leaders and corporations in international and intercultural contexts. Participated in numerous volunteer activities in the International Coach Federation (France and US).

Author of numerous books, mostly first published at the Editions d'Organisation (Paris).  Some have been translated to Italian, Spanish and Romanian.

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