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By Kathy Paauw - Learning to do what you want to do with your life, organizing and planning to get the job done. (Added: 6-Sep-2001 Hits: 495 )

Asking Santa -- or anyone else -- for career guidance

By Cathy Goodwin, PhD - Is your coach killing your career? You may have chosen the wrong coach. Learn how a coach's assumptions about human needs affect coaching style and how to match up with the coach for your needs. (Added: 25-Dec-2001 Hits: 423 )

Coaching Life/Work

By Tony Schwartz - So why not take advantage of good coaching to gain a competitive advantage? Why not use objective outside counsel and support to help you develop the communication, time-management, self-management, and interpersonal skills necessary to perform on today's corporate playing field -- where the pressures have never been higher and the rules are constantly changing? (Added: 20-Apr-2001 Hits: 693 )

coaching strategies you can apply in the workplace

By Ivy Sea - Whether on the gridiron, in the boardroom, part of a project team, or as a personal or professional counselor, coaches use similar tenets and tools to help others excel. Coaches might implement their tools in different ways, but the common denominators present in most coaching relationships can have lasting effects on employees%u2019 or your own performance. (Added: 7-May-2001 Hits: 992 )

Coaching: The Key to Performance Improvement

By Katie Davis and Patrick Malone - 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. (Added: 15-Oct-2002 Hits: 515 )

Do you remember what it was like to learn to drive

By Joan Lloyd, C.S.P. - "Geez, I used to do his job and I was ten times faster. I didn’t need all the handholding I have to do for him. He has to think through everything and he plods along. And the mistakes he makes are so obviously avoided." Starting a new job or learning a new job skill can be like learning to drive. Unfortunately, with lean staffs and pressure to produce, managers don’t often have the time they once had to train new employees. (Added: 25-Dec-2001 Hits: 311 )

Ingredients of Successful Mentoring Programs

By Odyssey - Today the term mentor usually means a more-experienced person who acts as a guide or model for a less-experienced person. Mentors can often be found on the job, but they can also be relatives, older friends, teachers and others we encounter in our lives. Mentoring typically takes place in an informal way, and often neither the mentor nor the person being mentored (typically called the protege) is completely aware that a lasting influence is in progress. (Added: 10-May-2001 Hits: 1289 )

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