A coach is a tool, not the hero. Accept blame when things fail, take no credit when they succeed, and keep the person you're coaching in control. If you're in it for recognition, you're doing it wrong.
The goal in being a coach is not glory. Like, if your goal is to get credit over other people's outcomes, you will never be a good coach. It just doesn't work like that. You have to simply want what's best for that person. And in any other context, you want what's best for the team. You want what's best for everyone outside of yourself. And you view yourself as a tool and a resource to make that outcome happen. And the outcome for that, that person, the organization, the team, that's the thing that really matters. and that's what you're focused on. So that's, that's sort of how I look at it. It's like, okay, the coaches, you kind of take the fall for when the plan doesn't work and you get no credit for when it does work. The best coaches get the person who they're coaching to the solution and have them maintain agency the whole time. If that's why you would think about coaching other people, because you think you're going to get recognition and people are going to love you and all this stuff, probably not a good reason to do it.
