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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Employee Development & Coaching: Helping Your Employees Reach Their Potential

As a leader, your job is to help others recognize their natural talents and develop those into strengths, while acknowledging and neutralizing their weaknesses.

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6 Reasons You Need a Coach

By Whit Mitchell • 2 min read

Ask any top athlete—or a top performer in any field for that matter—and they will tell you that they couldn’t have reached their peak without a coach.

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Ideas to Get Better at Employee Development & Coaching

Want to improve your Employee Development & Coaching skills? Check out this graphic for a variety of ideas that you can start implementing right away to improve

5 Ways People Managers Can Become Innovation Champions

By Dr. Evans Baiya

How to help everyone find their role in creating innovation. Does this innovation challenge sound familiar?

Finding the Hidden Treasure in Every Employee

By Ron Price • 4 min read

As a leader, developing and coaching others is a necessary skill in my arsenal. Supporting professional growth in others, to me, feels like finding hidden treas

Create a Team of Master Problem Solvers

By Dr. Evans Baiya

Problem-solving is an essential skill as an innovator. If problems stump your employees, how can your organization ever innovate for customers?

Help Your Employees Unleash Creativity

By Dr. Evans Baiya • 4 min read

Creativity is the cornerstone of innovation. As a leader, you want to foster imaginative thinking in your employees. The good news is that everybody has imagina

5 Steps to Build a Culture of Ideation

By Dr. Evans Baiya • 5 min read

According to a 2019 study by IdeaScale, each employee has on average $1,237 worth in unused ideas. A separate study also showed that employees come to work with

How Leaders Can Guide Company Culture

Imagine a high school where students, and all boys at that, are asked to exhibit leadership in setting student behavior norms, conducting student discipline and

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Leading Others: Expanding Your Impact

By Ron Price • 22 min

What does leading others really entail? This second stage of your leadership career is when you begin to have a larger influence and to expand your impact as a leader.

Managing Different Personalities at Work with Jaime Lisk

By Jaime Lisk • 2 min

In this short video, Leadership Coach, Trainer & Speaker Jaime Lisk talks about managing different personalities at work. She offers tips for identifying employee styles and explains how to use this information to improve your leadership.

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Unpacking Remote Management

By Dr. Lisa Aldisert • 2 min read

Many of us are a good ten months into managing a remote workforce. Although some have done well and even flourished, others are stumbling. This can be frustrati