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Getting the Best from Employees

If you're not growing, you're dying.

It's a basic rule of life here on earth and in the business world today. It's what drives most of us to be better at what we do and who we are. It's the desire to “be more.” Because of this desire, the term “coaching” has caught the attention of both the personal-growth and business worlds, creating a multibillion-dollar-a-year industry and a situation in which everyone wants a coach. More than ever, employees are asking for developmental opportunities and managers are being told they need to “coach” their employees on a regular basis. We've even worked with managers who say they've been told to “stop managing and start coaching.” This all sounds great in theory—managers ...

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