Coaching

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It's now imperative.

WE STUDIED THE impact of various leadership and talent management processes to understand where organizations could focus their leadership development and management efforts to drive business results.

We find that the talent process that delivers the greatest impact is executive and management coaching. This scored higher than setting goals, aligning goals, building core competencies, and recruiting high performers.

What does this result mean? Consider the role of a coach. You can likely trace success in your career to two things: first, you had a series of developmental events that gave you experience, judgment, and insights; and second, you had a manager or coach who took a special interest in you and in your work, your career, and your personal development.

Great coaches have a unique ability to identify the skills in each player and align them toward the ultimate goal: winning games.

A coach is not necessarily a mentor or a manager. Coaches...