I suspect that this thread is starting to confuse mentoring and coaching -- srs (blackberry)
-----Original Message----- From: Anish Mohammed <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2011 11:12:33 To: <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [silk] Do coaches improve your professional skills? Hi Udhay, my thoughts on being in medical profession short while and having watched a few cardio thoracic surgeons closely through thier career. I beleive there is value. But i suspect its the way u define coaching. In India you would talked to ur elders and your relatives who have been in the area vs in US and west, u have formal definition of things. I do know of quite a few folks in technology who have coaches. I have to admit someone suggested it to me as well during one of my career sessions. I have seen that help folks in profession ( warning - observer bias) regards Anish > * Shiv (and other surgeons on the list) what are your thoughts on this? > Have you tried it, or seen it being tried? With what results? > > * In general, the notion of coaching helping you with your professional > life seems to be to be quite well entrenched for the "softer" skills, > but not so popular for more technical ones. Is this a correct > impression, in your experience? > > * A slightly more sociological opinion: the whole notion of coaches > (i.e., people whom you pay to give you some instruction in some skill > area) seems very American (more specifically, USAnian) to me. I wonder > why it should be so. Thoughts? > >
