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Georgiou bounds into Catherine’s office unannounced and stressed. His face is as white as a ghost. Georgiou is seeking some advice from Catherine, his boss. Catherine adopts an open-door policy and encouraged her staff to ‘drop in’ when they needed too. This was one such occasion.
The best coaching conversations can be described as journeys of discovery.
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Baker, T. & Warren, A. (2015). Conversations at work: Promoting a culture of conversation in a changing workplace. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Baker, T. (2019). Conversation 1: The Coaching Conversation. In: Bringing the Human Being Back to Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93172-2_7
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