Coaching Successfully (Essential Managers) [Paperback]

John Eaton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 5, 2001 | Series: Essential Managers

Learn all you need to know about helping others to achieve their full potential. From defining performance targets to supporting staff as they progress, "Coaching Successfully" shows you how to motivate others to develop themselves promoting initiative and self-responsibility. Find out how to adapt your coaching style to suit both teams and individuals, how to use delegation as a coaching tool, and how to overcome negative attitudes. This title features power tips that help you handle real-life situations and increase your effectiveness as a role model and confidant.

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If most coaching guides look as if you'd need a coach just to get through them, you'll love this itty-bitty guide, which zooms in on the most important aspects of organizational-workplace coaching, from selecting an effective personal coaching style and preparing and shaping a coaching session to followup steps, dealing with barriers to coaching, troubleshooting, and more advanced coaching, such as team coaching, long-distance coaching, coaching plus appraising, and assessing your own coaching skills. On every page, boxed "power tips," quickie case studies and self-tests, to-do checklists, and easy-to-follow flowcharts demystify the process. Granted, if you're looking for specific or in-depth guidance, you may find this book too general in its approach. But if you're looking for a thumbnail guide to the basics, it'll do just fine.

It's worth mentioning that the book is also part of reference publisher Dorling-Kindersley's Essential Managers series--20 itty-bitty books on business and career topics ranging from communication, leadership, and decision-making to the management of time, budgets, change, meetings, people, projects, and teams. Combining the For Dummies series' talent for breaking down a lot of information into bite-sized bits and sidebars with Dorling-Kindersley's signature, crisp graphics on a gleaming white backdrop, they don't represent the cutting edge of business thinking and they don't necessarily reflect any unique individual perspective.

Instead, it's as though someone collated the best general thinking on these 20 topics and rolled them out into 72 brightly designed and easy-to-read pages, studded along the way with boxed tips, color shots of a multiracial cast of "coworkers" animatedly hashing through the workplace issues of the day, and a self-test of one's skills in the topic at hand on the last few pages of each volume. Again, they're not for anyone looking for in-depth or focused help on any of the subjects they cover, but they're perfect as a quickie general-interest reference... and let's face it, they're so cute, and look so smart in a neat little stack or row, that you'll probably want to buy a whole bunch to give to your entire department or staff. --Timothy Murphy --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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It hits all the bases... (Inc.) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 72 pages
• Publisher: Dorling Kindersley (April 5, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0751312142
• ISBN-13: 978-0751312140
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #801,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #29 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Business & Investing > Industries & Professions > Human Resources & Personnel Management

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3.0 out of 5 stars Thin but all in one, February 6, 2011

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Eunsook Lee - See all my reviews

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When I received this book from Amazon, it was true that I was disappointed a little bit because it looked very thin and small. Yeah, the price was good but... However, when I started reading this book, I found that it was totally efficient and portable. Very visual pictures were included in this book so it was very good to understand even thought it was a little bit hard subject.

5.0 out of 5 stars Coaching Successfully, March 26, 2009

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Great little book for visual learners like me! For a new coach, this easy to carry little book helps review points and build confidence before appointments. Illustrations, diagrams and checklists are great to use in helping prioritize what needs to be addressed with clients, how to do so, and how to remain focused and be a better coach. I highly recommend it as a general pocket guide that is easy to carry with you because it's small, easy to read, understand and implement.

5.0 out of 5 stars Coaching Successfully, August 18, 2008

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Excellent publication using an effective coaching model - "GROW".
It complements workshop training / executive coaching and provides participants with further tips and ideas to extend their application of workplace coaching.