A manager points out mistakes, but a coach shows how to prevent those mistakes in the future.

Most entrepreneurs hate giving their employees feedback on how they're doing. As a result, they do this once a year in the form of employee performance reviews, or, at worst, they avoid the process entirely.

These seven steps, when followed, can help create a positive environment for providing feedback.

Disengaged, unfocused and underperforming employees can sap the life from any business. Managed correctly, employees can become a startup's greatest asset. If they're managed poorly, they can pull a company under.

To integrate coaching into your talent management strategy, the following five steps should be taken.

A great football coach understands that words can inspire. As with success in business, victory on the field requires a leader who promotes teamwork, tenacity, perseverance and, above all else, the unrelenting desire to win.

So, while many people hire therapists, I have the business equivalent: a business coach.

Getting people to institute change in their lives is really hard work. The coaches who sustain long-lasting relationships with clients create a dynamic where the client is as vested in the relationship as they are in the results.

What separates the winners from the losers? At the most elite levels it's not talent, because everyone is supremely talented. Coaching is what makes the difference.

Coaching is an inherent aspect of leadership that, done well, is of immense benefit but, done poorly, can turn problems into crisis.

There's a leadership problem in the workplace. Companies lack employees with leadership skills and fear they don't have enough rising leaders to take the reigns.

Women in technology face well-known barriers to career development.