For years, coaching has been regarded as a useful strategy for individual and organizational development. Unfortunately, most organizations struggle with getting their managers to adopt and use coaching behaviors. In order to further understand the impact of leader coaching behaviors, the researchers at The Ken Blanchard Companies® embarked on a study to identify the correlations between leader coaching behaviors and the resulting correlation between trust, affect or emotion, and work intentions of their followers. This paper finds that coaching is a powerful managerial tool.
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Retaining, developing, and advancing high-potential employees is critical to the health and growth of organizations.

Dear Madeleine, I am in a high potential program at a large global company and am being considered for fast track promotion. As part of the program, everyone did a battery of assessments. I have...

With SLII, managers and direct reports learn how to speak a common language that builds trust and a sense of partnership.

Learn how poor managerial behaviors negatively impact engagement, alignment, productivity, and retention.

Today’s blog covers the promised Part Two from last week’s blog post. If you missed it and want to see the whole letter and the context, click here. Here’s the part of the letter, signed...

“Building a servant leadership curriculum begins by identifying the attitudes, skills, and behaviors of a servant leader,” says Vicki Halsey, vice president of applied learning for The Ken
Effective leader behaviors are context-specific, depending on the development level of the follower on a particular goal or task.
A key component of successful working relationships between leaders and followers, trust enables cooperation, encourages information sharing, and increases openness and mutual acceptance.

When people don’t get the coaching they need they flounder, disengage, and miss out on valuable development.
Making the transition from being an individual contributor to a manager can be a dramatic shift.
The failure rate for managers can be staggering

When people don’t get the coaching they need--They flounder, they disengage, they get frustrated, they lose momentum, they miss out on valuable development.

When people don’t get the coaching they need.

In this webinar, organizational coaching experts Madeleine Blanchard and Patricia Overland will show you how to leverage transition coaching during an executive’s first 90 to 120 days to ensure your l