One effective way to be sure is to ask your employees, through focus groups, one-on-one conferences or surveys. When exploring this question, try to understand through the employees’ lens what caring ...

Employee coaching features many benefits, such as creating and retaining motivated, productive employees who strive to do the best possible job. While many small-business owners may not think they ...

While some managers decide to lead their employees through tactics that are tantamount to intimidation, others prefer a more cooperative, group skill-building approach. When running your small ...

In order to make small fixes before little workplace issues become big problems, coaching employees is crucial. It also helps employees become more invested in their work, work more independently and ...

As a people manager in any industry, the most critical thing, along with consistent growth, is developing your people. How do you contribute to your employees' professional development? Developing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about self-leadership and leading others. One of the primary skills leaders need to develop is to “stop telling” and focus ...

Many leaders find coaching daunting. It feels time-consuming, intangible, and far removed from the hard metrics they’re used ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. The pillar of every successful business is happy employees, and effective coaching is a crucial ingredient to satisfied employees.

When advocating for better performance management, we ask managers to be a "coach" to their employees—borrowing the term from sports. However, it seems that the sports analogy stops there. For example ...

While Dwight Eisenhower was president, “The Ed Sullivan Show” was must-see TV, the laser was invented and Patty Haroski dreamed up National Boss’s Day. She did so, she explained, because she loved her ...