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Helping your coachee or mentee develop resilience
In challenging working environments, resilience is increasingly an essential competence. People, who are resilient, are better able to cope with unexpected change, with setbacks and disappointments, with high stress environments and with periods of excessive workload. The signs of low resilience are generally easy to spot. They include inability to make decisions, frequent minor physical…
Board directors have immense responsibility – the future of the company is in their hands and in the decisions they make. They also have responsibility to multiple stakeholders, including employees, suppliers, customers, investors and the environment. In theory, great responsibility should be accompanied by great accountability. In practice, the consequences when directors do a poor job, are minimal. While there are sanctions for dishonesty (such as disqualification or in extreme cases, such as fraud, prison), the bar for incompetence is set so high in many Western economies that the only sanction is losing their job.
The work of the Coach Maturity Research Group demonstrates conclusively that the more mature coaches become in their practice, the more they blend coaching and mentoring.
