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Article: Leadership development: Kevin Conroy introduces executive coaching.(Personal Development, )
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- Accountancy Ireland
- Article date:
- April 1, 2004
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Organisations in many sectors are now suffering the long-term effects of promotion decisions based on technical expertise, rather than the skills and behaviours needed for working with and leading people. In the accountancy profession, this can be a key issue affecting companies' competitive advantage and ability to adapt intelligently to fast changing markets.
An increasing number of employers are using mentoring, coaching or other one-to-one collaborative techniques to support individual and organisational performance. By far the fastest area of growth for learning organisations is executive coaching for senior managers and high-level professionals.
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