Manager & Coach: A "Savoir Etre"
Jean-Philippe GAUVRIT
Executive Mentor | Experienced International CFO | Transformation | Learning & Development with Photography
I delivered a presentation last week about Coaching in Disruption, at the AICPA-CIMA* Annual Conference “FP&A and Finance Transformation”. I shared several ideas, like adopting a Manager – Coach behaviour as a possible way to better address the current challenges.
Being Manager and Coach may sound paradoxical. But in an environment driven by complexity and permanent transformation, the Heroic Leader is dead. Nowadays no one can pretend to know everything, everywhere, anytime and to seriously lead the show.
According to Google’s Project Oxygen findings, the first quality of a “good” manager is to be a good coach.
Resource and solutions will come from people and from the situation we are in, with the manager’s guidance and framing; The Manager – Coach creates and promotes the right conditions to define Meaning and bring coherence, to foster ideas and initiatives, to empower people and enable their growth.
More than a “know-how”, deploying Coaching or Management techniques, more than skills, this is a “Savoir Etre”.
If you want to know more about it, if you are interested to explore this idea for your organization or for your team, please contact me at : jphgauvrit@broaderoad.com
* AICPA- CIMA is one of the largest and most influential association of professional accountants and finance managers in the world.