In recent years, management schools have been promoting manager-coaches as a leadership model to follow, essential to developing and leveraging the talents of workers in achieving objectives.

Leaders who focus on the skills of others, rather than acting as the sole hero of the team, are generally considered to be managers-coaches. They take a caring approach, provide regular constructive feedback, ask powerful questions to develop the skills and thinking ability of their people, define what results need to be achieved rather than how to get there and encourage autonomy and accountability.

This way of doing and being promotes the development of skills on a daily basis. Let us take a closer look at the essential practices of manager-coaches.