Quotations about Supervising & Coaching
Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
~Dick Armey
The five steps in teaching an employee new skills are preparation, explanation, showing, observation and supervision.
~Bruce Barton
I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true--hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it.
~Ray Bradbury
If ever stressed out corporate America could use a little couch-time, it's now. Trust in big companies is at an all-time low. Baby-boomers have been burned; Gen Xers aren't expecting the Corporation to take care of them. Under the circumstances, employees are much likelier to go outside and get independent advice to help them be better managers.
~Karen Cates
Who exactly seeks out a coach? Winners who want even more out of life.
~Chicago Tribune
Once reserved for executives and professional athletes, personal coaches ... are going mainstream.
~Christian Science Monitor
Being in the army is like being in the Boy Scouts, except that the Boy Scouts have adult supervision.
~Blake Clark
Once used to bolster troubled staffers, coaching now is part of the standard leadership development training for elite executives and talented up-and-comers at IBM, Motorola, J.P. Morgan, Chase, and Hewlett Packard. These companies are discreetly giving their best prospects what star athletes have long had: a trusted adviser to help reach their goals.
~CNN.com
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.
~John Foster Dulles
Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?
~Wayne W. Dyer
Life is never boring, but some people choose to be bored...Boredom is a choice.
~Wayne W. Dyer
Bob Nardelli (CEO of Home Depot) believes that without a coach, people "will NEVER reach their maximum capabilities.
~FAST COMPANY Magazine.
Executive coaches are not for the meek. They're for people who value unambiguous feedback. All coaches have one thing in common, it's that they are ruthlessly results-oriented.
~FAST COMPANY Magazine.
Five frogs are sitting on a log. Four decide to jump off. How many are left? Answer: five. Why? Because there's a difference between deciding and doing.
~Mark L. Feldman & Michael F. Spratt
Asked for a conservative estimate of the the monetary payoff from the coaching they got, these managers described an average return of more than $100,000, or about six times what the coaching had cost their companies.
~FORTUNE MAGAZINE, 2/19/01
You cannot teach a man anything. You can only help him discover it within himself.
~Galileo Galilei
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
~Sydney J. Harris
The goal of coaching is the goal of good management: to make the most of an organization's valuable resources.
~HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW
Any supervisor worth his salt would rather deal with people who attempt too much than with those who try too little.
~Lee Iacocca
I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish, and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
~Lee Iococca
What's really driving the boom in coaching, is this: as we move from 30 miles an hour to 70 to 120 to 180......as we go from driving straight down the road to making right turns and left turns to abandoning cars and getting motorcycles...the whole game changes, and a lot of people are trying to keep up, learn how not to fall.
~John Kotter
Confidence comes from seeing so many sides, angles, views, and tangents. Because when you do select an approach or direction, you are doing so with better/ more complete information.
~Thomas Leonard
When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.
~Thomas Leonard
He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality, and will never, therefore, make any progress.
~Abraham Maslow
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
~Abraham Maslow
Part therapist, part consultant, part motivational expert, part professional organizer, part friend, part nag -- the personal coach seeks to do for your life what a personal trainer does for your body.
~Minneapolis-St. Paul Star-Tribune
Got a nagging feeling that your life could be more fulfilling? Want to change direction but aren't sure how to do it? Here's how to jump start your new life today ... Hire a personal coach.
~Modern Maturity
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that our aim is too low and we reach it.
~Michaelangelo
Executives and HR managers know coaching is the most potent tool for inducing lasting personal change.
~Ivy Business Journal
Increasingly, nonprofit executives and managers are finding coaches a terrific sounding board and source of help in a demanding and complex job.
~Nonprofit World
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.
~Eleanor Roosevelt
I never cease to be amazed at the power of the coaching process to draw out the skills or talent that was previously hidden within an individual, and which invariably finds a way to solve a problem previously thought unsolvable.
~John Russell
Coaching is the number two growth industry right behind IT (Information Technology) jobs, and it's the number one home-based profession.
~Starts--Up Magazine
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
~Robert Louis Stevenson
An Ethics Resource Center study found that 90% of employees value leaders with integrity as highly as they value income.
~The Denver Post
Between 25 percent and 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies use executive coaches.
~The Hay Group, International
The Manchester survey of 140 companies shows nine in 10 executives believe coaching to be worth their time and dollars. The average return was more than $5 for each $1 spent.
~The Denver Post
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
~Arnold Toynbee
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
~William Arthur Ward
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
~John Wooden