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Measure Coaching Success

In the past few months coaching seems to have gained some prominence inSingapore especially since the government started talking about upgrading skills with more cus on soft skills. This is indeed good news for coaches although the focus appears to be more on executive coaching. However, in gaining on soft skills, life coaching would seem more appropriate.

In spite of the reports in the Straits Times on 20 March 2010 acknowledging the successes of coaching there remains the question of its effectiveness in creating awareness.

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Performance Management - Five Factors for Success

If you want better performance from your employees, the following four statements may surprise you:

- Forget about making your managers? lives easier.
- Dump your performance appraisal and ?coach? moniker.
- Shift accountability away from employees.
- Stop paying them off.

While these statements may seem to contradict what you have heard about successful performance management practices, we have found that the following five practices break away from conventional thinking to help solve the age old problem of the cumbersome, ineffective, and often ridiculed performance management process.

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