Coaching for Change: Practical Strategies for Transforming Performance

Focus on becoming a person with influence. If you are looking to develop others, to build a coaching culture, it is important that you build your own inner resilience, that you are confident, that you develop self-belief and, most importantly, that you become the person you always aspired to be.

There are a number of references within this book to becoming a business partner. If you want to become an effective business partner think about the following:

• Build your own inner resilience.

• Have the confidence to manage your own career.

• Develop self-belief.

• Become a person of influence.

• Seek to become a business partner.

• Take responsibility for your own development.

• Be curious .

• Develop the courage and wisdom to push against the corporate boundaries.

• Want to make a difference in your organization and in the wider community.

• Set yourself stretching personal targets and goals.

• Regularly research new areas of development.

• Build an extensive network of colleagues and business acquaintances .