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Management Mentoring - How To Provide Your Business A Leg-Up Over Your Competition
Many companies fall into the mistake of hiring someone who is an experienced manager, and assuming that, since they're an experienced manager, they don't require any more help. Nothing could be further from the truth. The fact is that managers are individuals too, and just as cooking at home for a few years doesn't make someone fully qualified to be a good chef (although it might well be a good start), being a good manager consists of more than having experience managing some people for a while.
This is where management coaches are useful. One of the most important tools human resources can supply is the form of management coaching that turns a mediocre manager into the leader of an all-star team. There's a reason that top CEO's of Fortune 500 companies spend a combined total of millions in one to one training with the world's top notch coaches. That reason is that even someone who is as successful as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs realizes that he doesn't know everything.
A comparison can be drawn with the field of music - George Gershwin took lessons in harmony from other composers, at a time when he was the most famous and well-paid living composer anywhere! If the leaders of the world undergo personal coaching, isn't that a good sign that management coaching is a vital part of bringing out the best in your management team?
The only concern is where to draw the line. Does everyone who is someone's boss need management coaching? What if someone is only a project leader? Lead engineer? Merely "senior" engineer, managing no one but himself or herself? The answer is yes, yes, yes and yes.
Everyone who makes management decisions benefits from coaching, and the reason is that no one is perfect. We all had to learn things somewhere, but changes across the world (especially increases in business performance) require us to adapt and stay ahead of the curve. Like the childish saying "you snooze, you lose", managers who obtain no training "lose". They lose their edge, their team's advantage, and, if they are particularly bad managers, they might even lose their staff.
Competent management coaching insures that an angry lapse will never sabotage a team, that a bad day doesn't imply a bad month, and that teams are led, and not just managed. Raising leaders doesn't happen without investment in them, and management coaches are the most proactive method of doing that -- for a Fortune 500 CEO, and for your management team as well.
Human resources are of most benefit to companies when they offer management coaching to help turn ordinary or poor managers into top notch leaders. Fortune 500 corporations invest millions of dollars to train their personnel with the best management coaches the world has to offer. Anyone making management decisions should have coaching as no one is perfect. We all had to learn things somewhere, but changes in the world (especially improvements in business efficiency) require us to adapt and stay abreast of the curve. Without proper coaching, managers forfeit their edge, their team's advantage, and, if they are especially bad managers, they might even lose their team.
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