The 22 Keys Online Community is a virtual gathering place for people who plan to read, are reading, or have read the new book 22 Keys to Creating a Meaningful Workplace by Tom Terez. Guest Perspectives are submitted by readers. Business executives, athletes, and other self-driven achievers welcome a coach or mentor to push them to new heights. Hourly employees may be equally driven, but often resist being pushed. In the purest sense, the coach's job is to get business-related and human results .
Coaches view employees as individuals having different abilities and needs.
Coaches must help carry out the objectives of the company in highly competitive markets while interacting on an individual, personal level with the employees who will physically achieve those goals. By building bridges and partnerships, coaches develop and nurture trust. With increasing trust, new avenues of workplace cooperation are opened. Hierarchical barriers erode. People more readily accept responsibility for their actions.