Some managers aren't overwhelmed because they're disorganised. They're overwhelmed because their strengths have become overused. This article shares eight manager coaching examples, drawn from real leadership situations and one leader's own experience, showing how dependable, capable people can unintentionally hold their teams back, and what changes once the pattern is properly diagnosed.

Somebody forms a view about what is holding you back, it gets written down, and everything that follows is built on it. If that view was wrong, no amount of development can work, and each failure reads as proof it was right. Why senior careers stall on an untested diagnosis.