Coaching practices for The Leader as Coach a New Management Paradigm as a Caregiver
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- I keep solving the same person’s problems over and over, slightly different each time
- My people route every little decision up to me, even ones squarely in their own authority
- My team lives in pure execution mode, head down, one fire after another, and so do our meetings
- The moment someone brings me a problem the answer is already on my lips and I just hand it over
- I care about my people so much that I’ve started absorbing their personal crises and trying to fix their lives, and I can’t tell anymore where being a supportive manager stops and me overstepping into someone I shouldn’t be begins.
Practices that may help
- The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
Leading as a coach means creating space for people to think and grow rather than solving every problem for them. The approach draws on coaching methodology — asking over telling, listening before advising — and is supported by research on autonomy, self-efficacy, and learning. The shift is behaviorally demanding because telling feels faster and more capable, even when it systematically reduces the people around you. - Coach the person, not just the problem
The most important thing a manager can work on is the person’s capacity to handle future problems, not just today’s.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Break the advice-dependency loop
When people come to you for every decision, it signals advice-giving is making them less capable, not more.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Create thinking space rather than filling every meeting with content
The most valuable thing a coaching manager provides is protected time and space for reflection — which most teams never get.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Stay curious one beat longer before advising
Resist the urge to give the answer for one more question — ask what they think first.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Know where care ends and overreach begins
Caring personally means being available, not being a therapist — know the limit of your role.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor - Listen to understand, not to load your response
Most managers listen while mentally composing their reply — real coaching listening is for understanding, not rebuttal-preparation.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Raise awareness and build responsibility simultaneously
Help the person see their situation more clearly while also connecting them to their ownership of it.
The GROW Model: Coaching Conversations That Actually Move People - Acknowledge what you heard before advancing to advice
A solution offered before the speaker feels heard is usually rejected, even when it is correct.
The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm - Learn what each person actually wants from their career and life
Care personally means knowing the goal behind the job — not just what they’re working on, but why.
Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
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