HOW TO GIVE COACHING A REALLY BAD NAME

With this article I want to initiate a series of articles about corporate or organizational coaching. More and more of our Meta-Coaches are being invited into organizations to do coaching and given that coaching inside a business or organization involves some additional distinctions and different emphases, this series will address some of the unique problems in that domain of coaching.

When I presented the materials about taking ACMC into Corporates (see Mohamed Tarek) for that presentation, there was a question about managers coaching. “Can a manager coach the people who report to him or her?” “How could a manager coach his or her team members when the manager will also be assessing and doing performance reviews with them?” My immediate response was: Don’t do it! Here’s why.