Never Coach on an Empty Stomach

The demands on managers today to deliver results-profitability, growth, quality, market share, productivity-have never been more stress-inducing. You are managing in an age in which:

- Cloud-based computing, mobile devices, and other applications support remote, independent workers

- Multiple generations in the workplace have different, sometimes competing, demands and desires

- Technology drives innovation at a lightning pace

The traditional employee-manager relationship is undergoing seismic shifts, and the leader who can coach at just the right moments will be in demand by organizations and teams.

In this environment and the one that is coming-a defining age marked by new and interconnected relationships between intelligent managers and team members, as well as artificially intelligent machines-it's urgent for managers to improve their coaching skills.