Executive Coaching - A Guide For The HR Professional.pdf

What Is the Client’s Role? 87
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coach. In your role as HR professional, it is important for you to know
that when a client recognizes these chances for accelerated learning,
the client can take a proactive role in dealing with them.
Summary
In this chapter, you have learned more about the client’s role to help
you achieve greater insight into what the client may be experiencing
during the coaching process. The client’s responsibilities to you,
the HR person, and to the boss have been explained. You have been
provided with some suggestions of what you can do to assist the
client during the coaching engagement. Finally, you have gained a
better understanding of the occasional “coachable moments” when
a client has an opportunity for accelerated learning.
In the next chapter, you will learn more about the boss’s role and
how you can help the boss in providing feedback and support to the
client.