In a recent article on coaching, we wrote about the most common reasons why coaching in companies does not work. One of them was choosing a bad reason to use coaching. Some employees are simply uncoachable. Today we will focus on who they are with the help of Marshall Goldsmith - world-renowned senior executive coach, speaker and author of popular books on personal development some of which such as What Got You Here Won´t Get You There (Jak se dostat do vyššího levelu) and Mojo have been published in Czech (Bizbooks, 2011). In his recent article on humancapitalleague.com, Marshall Goldsmith described how to uncover an uncoachable person.
1. He does not think he can improve
It is definitely not true that every successful worker is interested in further development. Many people are happy as they are and do not want to change anything about themselves. A coach would only be wasting his time with them. Even if he tried hard, they would, at most, listen to him and then immediately forget what he said.
2. He is promoting an inappropriate strategy for the company
This type of employee has already chosen a wrong path and a coach would only help him get there faster. It makes no sense to develop employees in areas you consider undesirable.
3. He is in the wrong job
Many people feel that they are doing the wrong job in the wrong company. They believe that they should be doing something else and they are currently unable to fully utilize their skills. You can recognize these workers easily when you ask them how they would feel if the company closed suddenly. Their answer would be relief. No coach can make unhappy people happy.
4. He sees everybody else as the problem
A coach can't help a manager who wants to change his subordinates instead of himself. As we said, you can't help someone who does not think he has a problem. If someone only sees other people as the problem, a coach will not fix it.
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