FOR BETTER COMMUNICATIONS, COACH - DON'T COUCH

 

Providing consistently effective, value-added, and motivating direction to our agency teammates--both account and creative types--is an inherently simple skill (one that we commonly refer to as coaching).  But it’s not an easy skill to come by.  It takes a lot of thought and a lot of practice.  It also takes, for many of us, breaking some old, not-so-helpful habits.  Among those habits is something that sounds a lot like coaching but is, in fact, counter to coaching:  its called couching.  That’s a distinction we would like to explore this week.

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The DISPATCHES^TM for July 23, 2012 can be found here:
http://www.bdn-intl.com/CoachDontCouch.php

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http://www.bdn-intl.com/printpage.php?id=414

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http://www.bdn-intl.com/uploads/CoachDontCouch.pdf