Coaching for Change: Practical Strategies for Transforming Performance

Key characteristics:

1. Know where you are going; understand the big picture; develop an over-arching plan.

2. Temper this with compassion - recognize your position in the community and address your corporate social responsibility.

3. Be entrepreneurial - seize opportunities to do business and make money.

4. Have a desire and drive to succeed - be energized, committed.

5. Recognize and respect your employees ' strengths, talents and emotional intelligence; look to identify the great leaders .

6. Be positive, optimistic; overcome setbacks.

7. Be imaginative, inventive , curious ; what shall we do next ?

8. Be able to learn from the past, reinvent, regenerate, draw from what is good and discard what doesn't work.

9. Benchmark, measure and celebrate success.

10. Network and partner with others.