Join us as we look closely at a recent shift in modern talent development: the rise of the leader-as-coach. While coaching has often been the domain of external consultants, organizations are now asking their own leaders to build real coaching skills and take on that role for their teams. We’ll discuss what it actually takes to prepare leaders for this new responsibility and how to build that capability across an organization.
This shift raises key questions: What does it mean to train a leader to coach, not just manage? And how much investment does this transition really require? Professor Laura Georgianna, Executive Director of Leadership Programs at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, and Dr. Jason Cisneros-Steinert, founder of LEAD Development Solutions, will explore how this plays out across different talent needs — coaching high potentials to accelerate their growth and readiness for bigger roles, and using coaching as a remedial tool to help struggling performers improve. In both cases, leaders are being asked to develop a skill set that wasn't traditionally part of their job.
Whether you're in HR or people management, or you’re sponsoring a coaching culture, you'll discover what it takes to build this capability as well as what's at stake if organizations get it wrong.
