The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Bosses coaching employees is such a critical task, yet so few leaders get any training on how to be effective in this role.  In Japan, the OJT On The Job Training is supposed to provide the guidance needed.  That probably worked back in the 1960s when Japan was doubling the size of the GNP. Today though it is a poor cousin to what it used to be.  Back then, the bosses didn’t ever touch a keyboard.  They  weren’t carrying around the internet armed with supreme connectivity in their hand like today.  The time poor pressure we feel today was probably evident then too, but I think the speed of business has accelerated to an extent which makes comparisons between then and now meaningless. Today’s leaders are doing their own email, answering their own mobile phones and constantly migrating from one meeting room to another.  The one-on-one time needed for coaching has sailed out the window and been replaced with a thin version of OJT.  Time management is a challenge for everyone, including bosses.  I am always aston