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Empower new managers with these three coaching strategies

Empower new managers with these three coaching strategies

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Empower new managers with these three coaching strategies

- Even the most seasoned leaders sometimes confuse managing with coaching and vice versa. After all, part of the reason you got promoted to management is you were adept at solving problems and navigating complexity. Let's talk about the difference between coaching and managing so you can help your new manager understand these nuances as well. Managing is about setting a clear vision, followed by a strategy to support it, then achieving that vision through collaborative team effort. For example, Google calls this process OKRs, objectives and key results. These are set at an individual team and company level. The objective is the highest level goal, the vision of what the entire organization is working toward. The broadest objective for Google is to organize the world's information. Key results are about outcomes. How will we know once we've reached our broader objective? Wearing your manager hat is about setting clear…

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