The phrases “managing by coaching” and “manager as coach” describe a management practice involving the application of various coaching principles to the management of employees and employee groups.Managing by coaching is a more practical, real-world implementation of the phrase “managing by walking around,” since, to me, the walking around part did not give the employees or the manager much opportunity to chat.At its heart (and soul), managing by coaching is about the manager talking with his employees to understand what motivates and excites them and how the manager and the employees can develop a continual dialogue on a variety of work related topics.It might be that the manager has an idea to improve a specific work process. He may not know exactly what is needed so he engages his employees in a problem-solving discussion. He enters the dialogue with his employees confident that, collectively, his employees will develop a solution and will be able to implement it. He understands his role to be that of the facilitator, the encourager, the coach.The manager may have the talents to facilitate the process review or he may have a team member who has been trained in that process. The central element here is that the manager understands it is more his role to encourage dialogue, problem solving and discussion. He understands he is more effective as a manager by encouraging his employees to arrive at solutions.I have worked with quite a few managers who were not certain, at first, that they could perform this managing by coaching role very well. Certainly they could learn how to manage, create a productive work environment, or establish effective motivating procedures. But they were a bit uncertain about the coaching role. They also sensed that they were missing a better understanding of the management role they occupied.When I see this uncertainty it is important to quantify its cause. I have found that diagnostic profiles assist managers in understanding what their strengths and talents are in motivating their employees better. These profiles help managers to understand not only their own behavioral preferences and drivers; they also help the managers to understand how to assess their employees’ behavioral preferences and drivers.It is important, as part of a managing by coaching program to help the managers and their employees become more success focused by training the manager to learn successful management techniques, successful coaching techniques, and the effective use of appropriate diagnostic profiles.The use of formal authority to lead and manage others does not yield effective results over time. Managing by coaching is effective at motivating and managing employees to excel.
Wedding Photography: Capture The Heart Of the Moment
A camera can stall the entire world. It captures the world as we see it and also the world beyond it. I feel photography as a painting with colors and light. Weddings are the most beautiful happenings on earth and wedding photography is the photography to showcase the activities during weddings (Pre and Post wedding).Weddings are a grand affair and the only sweet memories that remain with us for the rest of our lives. The wedding pictures should come out as amazing as the wedding happens. Wedding photography has different shades, as weddings are always colorful and filled with emotions. Weddings are not about emotions and sentiments, a lot of fun and frolic play an important role in brushing the canvas.According to history, the concept of wedding photography came into existence after the Second World War. Earlier, photography was a bulky task where they generally used films, negatives and later came the analog cameras and now we see professional photographers using digital SLR’s.Analog cameras provided only low quality photographs but with SLR’s we have high quality pictures and can also manipulate ambient light which is always a challenge for a photographer.We have different approaches to wedding photography, but mostly we see Traditional, Photojournalistic and Contemporary wedding photography.Traditional photography as the name suggests provides traditionally posed pictures taken on the Big Day and Photojournalistic photography comes from editing and adding up extra technical options to the wedding pictures. We have many software options for photography editing and enhancing the pictures. Mostly, we see photographers blending these styles. Contemporary/fashion-based Photography is complete poles apart to traditional photography where the photographer takes the ambience and the plot from the day. Contemporary photographers are professionals who provide indoor and outdoor photography and also photojournalistic features required to enhance the photographs.The wedding photography market is unorganized and welcoming many styles, ideas and experts. With the latest technology now in hand, people randomly get into wedding photography without prior experience. It is important that one has a lot of patience and interest as it is back-breaking work and one has to be attentive throughout the ceremony for long hours and one should be able to predict and capture emotions. People aspiring to become wedding photographers can get professional training from reputed institutes. There is always a good demand for wedding Photographers and hence what is important is to maintain exceptional quality in work.