The coaching experience, through real and very often painful and difficult passages, made me understand how it is possible to change and achieve great results at work.
I experimented with approaches and behaviours that weren’t instinctive or natural for me. Doing this with a coach who listens to you and provides feedback in a transparent, sincere and sometimes even ‘ruthless’ way, has given me the strength to ‘try’ and often ‘succeed’.
Without coaching I would not have tried these things, and it would never even have occurred to me to look at my managerial style from a different angle.
A.P.