It’s How Coaches Make Us Feel
Gary Burnison | CEO, Korn Ferry | 10′ read
What you need to know …
- Coaching is everywhere around us, all the time—in life, people, examples and challenges. Coaching and learning can never be separated.
- Coaches bring perspective with objectivity
- Most important, a coach is someone to be vulnerable with. When that level of trust exists, people have the psychological safety to speak their minds.
- Coaches believe in us, even before we believe in ourselves. That’s what a good coach does.
Want to Get Great at Something? Get a Coach
Atul Gawande | TED Talk | 16:37′
Atul Gawande is the author of several best-selling books. He is also a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, a staff writer for The New Yorker and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health.
What you need to know …
- It’s not just how good you are now, it’s how good you’re going to be that really matters.
- There are numerous problems in making it on your own. You don’t recognize the issues that are standing in your way or if you do, you don’t necessarily know how to fix them.
- The result is that somewhere along the way, you stop improving
- Coaches are your external eyes and ears, providing a more accurate picture of your reality.