Coaching is one of the most misunderstood terms in management.

Showing junior engineers how to create pull requests on GitHub? That’s NOT COACHING. That’s teaching or training.

Sharing advice to help a colleague through a sticky situation?Also NOT COACHING. That’s mentoring.

This post with my opinion? NOT. COACHING.

I didn’t understand coaching either and often applied it incorrectly. So, I signed up for some workshops based on The Coaching Habit book by Michael Bungay Stanier.

And I do feel like I have a lot of clarity now.

I wrote a full blog post about my new found understanding and how to apply coaching as an Engineering Manager -