Coaching & Leadership Pipeline Flashcards
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A manager notices a high-potential employee consistently avoids presenting to senior leadership. Which coaching approach best addresses this development gap?
Answer: Create stretch assignments that gradually increase the employee's executive exposure
Gradual stretch assignments build confidence through progressive exposure while keeping the employee in their growth zone.
In the leadership pipeline model, what is the primary shift required when moving from managing managers to functional manager?
Answer: Managing a broader business unit and developing other managers' leadership skills
The functional manager passage requires overseeing multiple departments and coaching managers to develop their own teams.
Which coaching conversation technique is most effective when an employee is stuck and cannot identify solutions on their own?
Answer: Using Socratic questioning to help the employee explore new perspectives
Socratic questioning guides the employee to discover their own solutions, building critical thinking and ownership.
A team leader consistently achieves results but struggles to develop team members. In the leadership pipeline framework, this represents a failure at which level?
Answer: Managing others
The 'managing others' passage explicitly requires shifting from personal productivity to developing and enabling others.
When coaching an employee who is resistant to feedback, what is the most effective first step?
Answer: Explore the employee's perception of the feedback before presenting your own view
Understanding the employee's perspective first reduces defensiveness and creates psychological safety for the coaching conversation.
Which element distinguishes a coaching conversation from a mentoring conversation?
Answer: Mentoring is directive; coaching draws out the employee's own thinking
Mentoring typically involves sharing the mentor's experience and advice, while coaching facilitates the coachee's own problem-solving.
A senior manager wants to build a stronger internal leadership pipeline. Which action has the greatest long-term impact?
Answer: Creating individual development plans tied to future role requirements for high-potential employees
Proactive individual development plans aligned to future roles systematically build bench strength over time.