The plague of the Uncoachable Employee
Imagine for a second that you’re one promotion away from your dream job; you’re so close you can almost taste it. Your company selects you as a candidate for career coaching to round out some blind spots and help you reach the next level. Imagine then, after a few meetings with this coach, you are deemed “uncoachable”, and those precious dreams of yours go up in smoke. Whose fault is it when this happens? The “uncoachable” employee or the company that didn’t help coach him or her until now? A little bit of both I think, but the biggest issue is that both parties waited too long to figure it out. THIS article from Harvard Business Review, “4 Signs an Executive Isn’t Ready for Coaching” discusses several of these scenarios. However, it doesn’t dive into how to help these employees improve, it simply warns companies of the red flags to watch out for and avoid spending coaching dollars on these people. So the people who need coaching the most, get left out in the col...