A local authority finance director wants a coaching programme for his reports. He is keen on the process and feels his team would benefit, but is unaware of how negative they are feeling Paul is a lively, ambitious 50-year-old finance director in a metropolitan local authority. He has just come to the end of a successful professional development programme and is a zealous convert to coaching. He now wants to prepare his departmental managers for the considerable challenges ahead by commissioning coaching for the whole team, whom he describes as a "good bunch". He has...