Employee Development & Coaching

Definition: Facilitating and supporting the professional growth of others.

Effective employee development and coaching facilitates the professional growth of others. Successful leaders create more leaders. As a leader, your job is to help others recognize their natural talents and develop those into strengths, while acknowledging and neutralizing their weaknesses. In this section, you will learn more about development tools, such as the four primary competencies of coaching: listening, creating awareness, planning and managing progress.

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Why Your Employees Are the Key to Recovery

By Dr. Evans Baiya

In this article, we will look at how to identify and understand employee contributions, and learn how to work with idea generators, evaluators, and activators.

Step Back and Let Others Lead

By Dr. Francis Eberle • 3 min read

When I talk to groups and I often tell them that leaders should step back more. The biggest concern I hear in response is that if they step back

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How Collaboration is Like a Chinese Finger Trap

By Dr. Francis Eberle • 3 min read

Imagine you’ve just settled into your office for the morning, coffee in hand, desktop firing up, when two employees blow through the door. Each has a strong,

Communications Checklist For Virtual Leaders

Virtual leadership is now an essential skill as a result of living through the pandemic. Recent announcements by large tech companies such as Google and Salesfo

Moving From Corrector to Coach – A Life-Changing Breakthrough

By Steve Van Remortel • 3 min read

his quote by Bob Nelson captures the essence of one of the greatest breakthroughs that I see in leaders as they develop. That breakthrough is when a leader (in

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What Are You Missing When You’re Paying Attention?

By Dr. Francis Eberle • 4 min read

Recently I came across a familiar video I had not seen in a while. It has two teams, one in black shirts and the other in white shirts, passing basketballs to e

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Using Assessments to Motivate Your Sales Team

By Holly Mitchell • 3 min read

When I owned my small business in Boise, Idaho, I decided to run an incentive program amongst my sales team to help them be more goal oriented and to drive sale

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How to Define Success in Any Job

By Ron Price • 3 min read

In my own experience as an executive, I sought to put as much power as possible into hands of those I supervised. I wanted them to “own” their jobs and to a

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Acres of Diamonds at Work

By Ron Price • 4 min read

There is an old story about a fellow in the ancient world, who upon learning about diamonds, sold his successful farm and spent his fortune traveling the world

Employee Development and Coaching: Bringing Out the Best in Other People

Effective employee development and coaching facilitates the professional growth of others. Successful leaders create more leaders.

Finding the Hidden Treasure in Every Employee

• 22 min

Host Dale Dixon and Business Advisor Ron Price dive into the leadership competency of Employee Development & Coaching. Ron tell us the four skills that a leader needs to excel at Developing & Coaching, why your

Coaching & Developing Others

• 14 min

Our guest is Whit Mitchell, who is an executive coach and team builder with Price Associates. Whit is also a professional speaker and the author of Working In Sync. Whit talks about the different types of coaching,