Passion for developing people.
An executive coach must be a person, who is passionate about developing people. How will you find this? This will show up in his \ her track record through
-formal or informal teaching assignments
-learning new thing (people who keep learning new skills, acquire new knowledge find it easier to transfer their learning to others)
-what his \ her former subordinates say

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