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Chapter 08
5G Global • Business Coaching • Chapter Eight

Leadership and Coaching:
The Leader as Coach

Develop people without becoming the answer to everything. Use the GROW approach, balance coaching with authority and create a culture of ownership.

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Chapter 8 learning pathway

From indispensable manager to capable team

Study the book’s leadership-coaching principles, then practise eight decisions with Anna and her team. This is an original educational interpretation of the manuscript.

Knowledge check

Leadership coaching in practice

Branching managerial decisions

Anna: the leader who solves everything

This original case is based on the chapter’s Anna example. Make eight decisions about employee autonomy, GROW, direct management and culture. The score is educational feedback, not a validated measure of leadership.

Transfer to your workplace

5G Leadership Lab

Analyse a recurring management bottleneck and design a coaching conversation. Distinguish when coaching can build capability and when accountable direction is required.

The 5G GROW-in-action check

G / R

Goal: What outcome matters? Reality: What is happening now?

O

Options: What approaches could they try?

W

Will: What will they do, by when, and with what support?

GROW is discussed in the manuscript; use it flexibly, not as a script.

Reflective diagnostic

Eight leader-as-coach practices

Rate yourself from 1 (rarely) to 5 (consistently). These self-ratings are not a validated psychometric instrument. Compare them with your choices in the scenario.

Personal learning summary

Leader-as-Coach Practice Profile

Simulation choices and self-perception remain separate. Scores are educational prompts, not professional certification.

Simulation
Self-rating

30-day improvement plan

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