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Academy course 8 of 18 · 3 lessons · 10 min · video
Getting started with coaching as a manager
Coaching separated from advising and fixing, and five sentences that move directors from problems to decisions.
Your first five minutes
What coaching is, and what only looks like it
Lesson 1 of 3 · 3:31 · Watch, listen or read
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Narrated by Andreas Pettersson. Built from the Leaders ADAPT library with Martha Spalding.
Your course, one useful move at a time.
- 1What coaching is, and what only looks like it
Where coaching ends and solving starts, and why your directors will coach exactly the way you coach them.3:31 - 2What coaching gives back, and the traits it asks of you
What coaching gives back to a VP and to the directors you lead, and the eight traits it asks of you.3:27 - 3Five shifts from fixing to coaching
The five shifts from fixing to coaching, with the exact sentences to use with your directors this week.3:23
All lessons are recorded.
How a lesson works
Each lesson is about five minutes, the slides with Andreas narrating, or audio only on your phone between meetings. It opens on one situation at the executive level, teaches one tool, and closes with your move: one thing to do before the next lesson. The full written lesson sits under the player, so you can read instead, or go back for the exact sentence you want to use.
Created and narrated by Andreas Pettersson. The narration uses an AI model of Andreas's own voice.