Coaching is a way of being that stems from a coaching ethos – a belief in the capability, resourcefulness, and potential of yourself and others which allows you to focus on strengths, solutions, and future success, not weakness, problems, or past performance. A coaching style of leadership requires that you connect at the human level, beyond the task – being before doing – and stop thinking that the leader is “the expert” who has to tell everyone else the best way to do things. Coaching is based on trust, belief, and non-judgment; it’s a culture where “best practice” is not as you know it,
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