Build Your Coaching Skills to Develop Others
Coaching has the power to enhance individual, team, and organizational
performance. Its interactive process helps individuals set and act upon
goals, make better decisions, and produce results.
10 Steps to Successful Coaching offers meaningful advice to help you
embrace and elevate your existing coaching skills, drawing upon your
strengths as a leader, colleague, or employee to bring out the strengths
of others. This book is an entry point for anyone who wants--or has been
asked--to do some formal or informal coaching. It's also for anyone who
wants to infuse day-to-day interactions in the workplace with a powerful
new skill: development through coaching.
With coaching skills quickly becoming essential for anyone who wants to
help others develop in the workplace, use this book as your road map to
being an effective coach who is ready to listen, encourage, and
challenge others to greater achievement. Your coachees will enjoy
greater job satisfaction and confidence, and your organization will
benefit from this cost-effective way of developing employees and
improving productivity. You, as a coach, will discover growth in your
working relationships and gain a tremendous sense of accomplishment.
This second edition addresses coaching in terms of the broader
organization; creating a coaching culture; the impact of technology on
the coaching relationship; and goal and accountability setting;
overcoming obstacles to good listening; and ending the coaching process.
You'll find a diverse array of tools to help you along the way. Examples
include:
a development plan to highlight existing coaching skills and areas of
opportunity
sample questions to ask during sessions
forms to secure commitment to coaching
an assessment to evaluate your organization's coaching culture.
