I had a very interesting chat last night with a senior sales executive from one of the Europe's leading IT Services organisations. We were having a chat about what has been going on in the office and the subject got around to one of the senior chaps in his organisation. This particular person has had a swift rise to prominence and is now running a large, and successful, part of the business. What surprised me was that the individual concerned has apparently being getting some flak from colleagues. No this was not because he is poor at budgeting, nor is he a poor manager and no he hasn't been fiddling his expenses rather he has been subject to ridicule because he has a coach! I was a little surprised at this and enquired why this was so:
"I mean, it's really a bit much that a grown man needs a coach to get on at work"
I'm afraid I went into full rant mode - I mean for goodness sake I thought we had moved on from the days when "men are men" etc.
Oh and if you are wondering about the 30,000 days in the title, it's the average number of days we live in the UK.....life really is too short.
1 comments:
Very relevent observations - I have been highlighting in my organisation, the need for managers to invest more time in areas such as coaching their teams. Recession pushes such aspects of management right to the back, but the impact of coached reflection is invariable high. People leave bad managers far more than bad organisations...
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