The 8 – Building block ‘Monitor and coach’

‘Monitor en coach’ is one of the building blocks of the 8, the strategy execution framework.

A crucial step

Regular coaching motivates people and dramatically increases their chances of success. It also simplifies the final performance evaluation. In fact, regular coaching is far more important than the formal review meeting somewhere around the middle of the year.

Providing feedback in the right way – a key coaching skill – is a crucial step in boosting performance.

Growing fast

Performance coaching is a relatively new, but rapidly growing, knowledge field. The leading authority is Sir John Whitmore, author of Coaching for Performance and my sparring partner for the chapter on coaching in  my book Strategy Execution Heroes.

Want more on coaching? Here’s a list of 30 coaching tips.