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             If your goal is to help other people improve their proficiency and competence at performing a specific task, then your role is to coach. Sometimes coaching involves passing along knowledge, but that's only a small part of coaching. A coach's real goal is to help a person become more talented at performing. For instance, a teacher could conduct driver education classes, but it would take a coach to conduct successful driver training.
             The personal skill of coaching is a powerful tool. It's the only way to bring about genuine performance improvement in others. Like any other skill, coaching is a process that you need to learn and practice in order to use effectively.
             Coaching, like any other interactive skill, is most useful when it connects with the person being coached. There is no right way, but there are many appropriate ways to coach. Your observation and assessment skills will eliminate all the guesswork.
             A good coach is long remembered, greatly admired and amply rewarded so becoming an effective coach is a worthy goal. Just remember to heed your own coaching advice: practice your coaching skills, just as you coach others to practice to improve their own skills.
             The image of a coach is somewhat different: someone critically observing a top athlete, stopwatch in hand. How can either of these be of any relevance to a company? Evolved from these origins, business coaching and mentoring are now widely recognized for their impact in leveraging personal and organizational development. For anyone who needs convincing, imagine having someone alongside you who is motivated solely to help you succeed; someone immune from but aware of company dynamics and politics; someone who takes time to listen and to guide you without any personal or political agenda other than the success of you and your company. There are few who would not benefit from such a relationship.
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