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Alex Ponomarev's avatar

This is a useful and practical breakdown of how managers can shift from the instructor to coach mindset. It's one of the best ways to help ICs and teams develop and grow.

Another great collaboration to read!

Colette Molteni's avatar

Yes, I was so happy @Roman Nikolaev and I were able to collaborate on this!

Roman Nikolaev's avatar

Thank you for opportunity @Colette Molteni! I hope it met your standards. It was fun to write about coaching from the empathy angle. Because to the large extent coaching is structured empathy.

Richard Zhang's avatar

A good read! I'm still not very good at asking questions to help them draw conclusions. While continue practicing I have a shortcut. 1) Repeatedly encourage my team members to form their own opinion on everything; 2) For specific question, tell them how I would tackle it and then emphasis it's only for reference, they make their own decisions.