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Enhancing Your Most Valuable Career Asset
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Enhancing Your Most Valuable Career Asset

Coachability with Jacquelyn Lane

Jacquelyn Lane and Pete Mockaitis
How to Be Awesome at Your Job, 2023
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Are you a leader looking to unlock greater career growth and development? In this informative episode of How to Be Awesome at Your Job, host Pete Mockaitis chats with career coach Jacquelyn Lane about a vital factor in leadership development: “coachability.” Discover the powerful benefits of being a leader who embraces the four critical components of coachability. Lane explains why openness to change, learning to accept feedback, taking action and maintaining the drive to evolve have lasting effects on your professional journey and those you lead.

Summary

Companies want executives who embrace the four critical traits of “coachability.”

Today, a growing number of companies are seeking “coachable” leaders. They don’t want leaders who intimidate their employees or pretend they always have all the answers. Instead, they want leaders who realize that everyone needs help occasionally. Coachable individuals possess four characteristics: willingness to change, openness to feedback, desire to take action and readiness to have others hold them accountable.

Former CEO of Best Buy Hubert Joly saved the tech retail company from bankruptcy because of his willingness to ask for help. Joly would walk into Best Buy stores, identify himself as the company CEO, and ask staff members – including frontline workers – for advice on running the company. Having gleaned new insights, he was able to grow the company by 330%.

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About the Podcast

Host Pete Mockaitis is an award-winning trainer and podcast host, and guest Jacquelyn Lane is the president of the 100 Coaches Agency.

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