Successful Leaders Are Great Coaches(译文).docx

1、成功的领导者是伟大的教练原文：Successful Leaders Are Great Coaches通过原文：by 比尔乔治原文：Bill George和原文：and 扎克克莱顿原文：Zach Clayton2022年10月6日原文：October 06, 2022总结原文：Summary.越来越多的高管意识到，成功的领导者必须是一位好教练。但好的教练都做些什么呢？作者涵盖了五个方面：关心你的队友，组织他们进入他们的“最佳状态”，围绕组织的目标和价值观调整他们，挑战他们以充分发挥他们的潜力，帮助他们实现目标。原文：More and more executives are realizing

2、that the successful leader must be a good coach. But what do good coaches do? The authors cover five areas:Care for your teammates,Organize them into their “sweet spot,”Align them around the organizations purpose and values,Challenge them to reach their full potential, andHelp them reach their goals

3、.随着婴儿潮一代将权力移交给X一代、千禧一代和Z一代的新兴领导人，领导力正在经历巨大变化。这一代人的转变带来了领导风格的转变，从作为有能力的管理者的领导者转变为作为人的伟大教练的领导者。原文：Leadership is going through massive changes as the Baby Boomers transfer power to emerging leaders in the Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z generations. That generational change is bringing with it a shift in

4、leadership style, from leaders as capable managers to leaders as great coaches of people.近年来，许多领导者聘请了外部教练，但有些人更进一步，将他们作为高管的工作从根本上理解为教练。Bill Campbell就是一个伟大教练的例子，他最初的职业生涯是哥伦比亚大学足球队的教练，后来被称为“硅谷教练”。Bill是许多创建硅谷的企业家的知己和执行教练，其中包括谷歌联合创始人Larry Page和Sergey Brin，现任Alphabet首席执行官Sundar Pichai，苹果的史蒂夫乔布斯、脸书的谢丽尔桑德伯

5、格、亚马逊的杰夫贝佐斯和推特的杰克多尔西。坎贝尔拒绝接受“指挥与控制”领导的概念，他说：“你的头衔使你成为一名经理，你的员工使你成为领导者。原文：While in recent years many leaders have hired external coaches, some have gone further, conceptualizing their jobs as executives asfundamentally about coaching. An example of a great coach is Bill Campbell, who started his care

6、er as coach of Columbia Universitys football team and later became known as the “Coach of Silicon Valley.” Bill acted as a trusted confidant and executive coach to many of the entrepreneurs who built Silicon Valley, including Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, current Alphabet CEO Sundar

7、 Pichai, Apples Steve Jobs, Facebooks Sheryl Sandberg, Amazons Jeff Bezos, and Twitters Jack Dorsey. Campbell rejected the notion of “command-and-control” leadership, saying, “Your title makes you a manager; your people make you a leader.”正如伟大的运动员寻找伟大的教练一样，最好的人也希望为那些指导他们充分发挥潜力并帮助他们成为更好教练的领导者工作。将领导力概

8、念化为指导意味着什么？为了回答这个问题，我们开发了首字母缩写COACH来描述今天的领导者应该如何与人合作。作为教练领导者，你需要关心你的队友，组织他们进入他们的“最佳状态”，围绕组织的目标和价值观调整他们，挑战他们以发挥他们的全部潜力，并帮助他们实现目标。原文：Just as great athletes seek out great coaches, the best people want to work for leaders who coach them to reach their full potential and who will help them become better

9、 coaches themselves.What does it mean to conceptualize leadership as coaching? To answer that, we have developed the acronym COACH to describe how todays leaders should work with people. As a coaching leader, you need toCare for your teammates,Organize them into their “sweet spot,”Align them around

10、the organizations purpose and values,Challenge them to reach their full potential, andHelp them reach their goals.让我们检查一下这五个方面的每一个要素，它们都是优秀的辅导领导者。原文：Lets examine each element of these five aspects that make great coaching leaders.关怀：建立理解和信任原文：Care: Build Understanding and Trust如今，除非人们相信他们的领导关心他们，否则他

11、们不会全身心地投入到自己的工作中，无论是思想、身体还是精神。他们在全身心地投入工作之前，先寻求与领导的私人联系。这要求领导人提供一种曾经是禁忌的接触、开放和深度。原文：These days people will not engage their full selves mind, body, and spirit until they believe their leader cares about them. They seek a personal connection with their leader before they will invest themselves wholly

12、 in their jobs. That requires leaders to provide a level of access, openness, and depth that once was taboo.根据我们在组织和课堂上的经验，许多婴儿潮一代的领导者都不愿意向员工敞开心扉，更喜欢主要处理他们的直接下属。这越来越成为一种负担，因为今天的员工要求他们的领导者既要有联系又要有真实性。他们能在几秒钟内嗅出伪君子，对与他们合作不感兴趣。因此，辅导领导者需要从一开始就表明，他们真正关心自己的团队，不仅是团队的整体表现，还包括个人在工作生活中的表现。原文：In our experience

13、 in organizations and in the classroom, many leaders from the Baby Boomer generation are reluctant to open up to employees and prefer dealing primarily with their direct reports. That is increasingly a liability, as todays employees demand both connection and authenticity in their leaders. They can

14、sniff out phonies in seconds and arent interested in working with them. So coaching leaders need to demonstrate from the outset that they genuinely care about their teams, not only with regard to the teams overall performance but in terms of how individuals are faring in their working lives.作为酒店和旅游公

15、司卡尔森公司（Carlson Companies）的首席执行官，玛丽莲卡尔森纳尔逊（Marilyn Carlson Nelson）表示，她通过亲自展示自己对员工的关心，改变了公司文化。她指出，“满意的员工创造出满意的客户。在服务行业，客户很快就会了解你是否合理地关心他们。原文：As CEO of Carlson Companies, the hospitality and travel company, Marilyn Carlson Nelson says she converted the company culture by personally demonstrating how mu

16、ch she cared for her employees. She notes, “Satisfied employees create satisfied customers. In the service business, customers understand very quickly whether you legitimately care for them.”组织：让人们处于最佳状态原文：Organize: Get People in Their Sweet Spot作为教练的领导者的第二项任务是了解和理解团队成员的优势和劣势以及他们的动机和愿望。他们利用这些信息来组织他们的团队，使每个人都能在他们的优势和内在动机相交的“最佳位置”工作。当人们在自己的最佳状态下工作时，他们会受到鼓舞，充满活力，对工作充满热情，并