{"id":545,"date":"2009-10-01T12:38:52","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/?p=545"},"modified":"2009-10-01T12:38:52","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T19:38:52","slug":"hp-project-managers-as-coaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/career\/hp-project-managers-as-coaches","title":{"rendered":"HP Project Managers as coaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just got done giving a presentation to a large number of project managers in HP, titled &#8220;Coaching Employees on Tough Issues.&#8221; How incredibly cool!<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The primary purpose was to clearly describe the role of manager-as-coach, how that&#8217;s different than other things the manager might be doing, and to explain how the coaching process works.\u00a0 I didn&#8217;t really spend a lot of time walking through steps of a coaching conversation, but instead tried to inspire the attendees to internalize why good coaching conversations will help employees to be more inspired, more focused, and more productive.<\/p>\n<p>The audience was somewhere over 440 people worldwide, which means that most of the time was spent walking people through my slides.\u00a0 Despite that, there was a high level of engagement because there were a lot of interesting &#8211; and tough! &#8211; questions.\u00a0 Here are some great ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How is the coaching\/leadership comparison different from the coaching\/management comparison?<\/li>\n<li>What happens when an employee coaches their manager?\u00a0 Can that work?<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s the difference between engagement and inspiration?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I can deliver the most value when I&#8217;m working with a smaller group, on issues which are specific to an organization.\u00a0 But this kind of presentation helps to build awareness and points people to resources that they have available to them.<\/p>\n<p>And it was great to reconnect with a bunch of my HP buddies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got done giving a presentation to a large number of project managers in HP, titled &#8220;Coaching Employees on Tough Issues.&#8221; How incredibly cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,26,31],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-carl","4":"has-more-link","5":"post-545","7":"format-standard","8":"category-career","9":"post_tag-coaching","10":"post_tag-leadership","11":"post_tag-organizational-coaching"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dierschow.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}