title: Coaching skills for employee development.
abstract: Chief nursing officers, in a national research study called the Nursing Leadership Edge, ranked employee coaching and development as the number one leadership skill required in their jobs. As one chief nursing officer said, "Our success depends on having a support team that is successful and perceived by others as being successful. We need to develop our staff to ensure their success."
authors.affiliation: CorningWorks Inc., Palo Alto, CA, USA. susan@corningworks.com
authors.forename: Susan P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Corning
mesh_terms: D007857:Leadership; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000592:standards*; D011361:Professional Competence; D013192:Staff Development; D014481:United States