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Executive Coaching - A Guide For The HR Professional.pdf

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What Is the Coach’s Role? 103<br />

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and setting the boundaries for the coaching relationship. You have<br />

gained some insight concerning how the coach values communication<br />

with you and the client’s boss to be able to adjust goals and<br />

solve problems. You have also learned that the coach must manage<br />

the timeline allotted for the assignment as well as any work commitments<br />

beyond the original agreement. Your role in providing<br />

feedback to the coach regarding the perception of the success of the<br />

coaching assignment is very important. You have gained some<br />

insight into the importance of evaluating the success of coaching<br />

assignments and some approaches you might use. Finally, some reasons<br />

for terminating a coaching engagement have been provided so<br />

that you will know what situations will require your involvement<br />

in the decision to discontinue coaching.<br />

In the next section, you will learn more about some special topic<br />

areas in which coaching has begun to play a larger role. <strong>Coaching</strong><br />

has been helpful in accelerating learning when an executive is new<br />

to an organization (Assimilation <strong>Coaching</strong>), when formal classroom<br />

experiences are integrated with on-the-job experiences (<strong>Executive</strong><br />

Development and <strong>Coaching</strong>), when executives must function across<br />

the globe (Multi-Cultural Issues), and when organizations wish to<br />

accelerate leadership development for a diverse workforce (<strong>Coaching</strong><br />

and Diversity).

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