The Five Deadly Habits of Ineffective Coaches

Investigate your mindset and motives before signing on

Amy L. Bernstein
Blow Your Stack
Published in
5 min readJan 23, 2024

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Great coaching — whether aimed at kids, colleagues, peers, or strangers — is not about what the coach knows. It’s about what the coach does.

Coaching is a mindset, not a celebration of the coach’s subject-matter expertise or, heaven forbid, “wisdom.”

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Amy L. Bernstein
Blow Your Stack

I write stories that let you feel and make you think. Fiction, essays, poems. Whatever the moment — or zeitgeist — requires. More at https://amywrites.live.