Coaching for behavorial change

✍ Scribed by Marshall Goldsmith

• Book ID: 102472050
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Weight: 314 KB
• Volume: 1996
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1087-8149
• DOI: 10.1002/ltl.40619960205

✦ Synopsis

s leaders we always preach A teamwork, but we often excuse ourselves from its practiceand even more often fail to hold people in our organizations accountable for living this value.This inconsistency invites corporate cyn- icism, undermines credibility, and can sap organizations of their vitality The failure to uphold espoused values in general-and teamwork in particular-is one of the biggest fiustrations in the workplace. In our research, involving thousands of participants at more than 30 large companies, employees rated their manager's ability to "effectively deal with individuals whose behavior undermines teamwork" dead last among 92 elements of effective leadershp.