BASIC RESPONSIBILITIES

General coaching considerations of importance are confidentiality, resistance, power and authority, and role conflict, but not all leader coaches are experienced in these areas.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality is a complex issue for leader coaches because they don't have the luxury of defining their relationship with coachees as solely developmental. Leader coaches occupy a unique position from which they gain a view of the coachee that is more comprehensive than the one afforded an external coach. When it comes to confidentiality, it's important that leader coaches and their coachees explicitly discuss such issues as these:

A key distinction between coaching for development and coaching for performance is that developmental ...

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