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Ten traps to avoid when coaching or mentoring
When you are coaching someone, it is very easy to develop unhelpful behaviours and bad practices. The following are some of the traps you may fall into when coaching – we have seen all of them and fallen into most of them ourselves!
- Taking the monkey. There is an expression ‘To take the monkey’, meaning that you end up taking on other people’s problems and issues. This is extremely common in management for two reasons. One, the manager very often thinks that their job is to solve problems; and two, as a result of hierarchy and a command and control culture, many employees have become used to letting someone else do their thinking for them. So as a coach you must avoid taking responsibility for ...
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