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Two weeks ago, I wrote about the lie we tell about workforce coaching—that it’s “just support.”
If that’s not true, then we need to be honest about something else:
We are asking people to do a job w...
Coaching in workforce development is often described as “support.”
That’s the lie.
Because what we call “coaching” is not a support function—it is one of the most complex, underdefined roles in the ...
There were moments in my career when I felt like I was doing everything right—working twice as hard, proving my worth, staying late, saying “yes” to every opportunity. And yet, I still found myself st...
