https://davidohnstad.info/coaching-culture-failures-resources/ Leadership, Mentorship & Career Development in Tech Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:14:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://davidohnstad.info/coaching-culture-failures-resources/#comment-533 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:26:57 +0000 https://davidohnstad.info/?p=205#comment-533 […] The second thing that breaks is trust. Coaching requires psychological safety—the belief that admitting a knowledge gap or a mistake won’t result in punishment. But when coaching gets introduced as a top-down mandate with no discussion of how it fits into existing performance management structures, employees hear it as surveillance with a friendlier name. They comply in form but withhold the vulnerability that makes coaching valuable. You end up with documented conversations that check a box but don’t move anyone forward. For more on this, see Why directives lack necessary support. […]

]]> https://davidohnstad.info/coaching-culture-failures-resources/#comment-525 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:22:26 +0000 https://davidohnstad.info/?p=205#comment-525 […] David Ohnstad has observed this dynamic directly in enterprise data work. For more on this, see why coaching initiatives fail without resources. […]

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