Performance Coaching: The Handbook for Managers, H.R. Professionals and Coaches [Paperback]

Angus McLeod (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003 | ISBN-10: 1904424058 | ISBN-13: 978-1904424055 | Edition: 1st

This book is comprehensive and rich in real examples of real executives achieving real success in real-life situations. Even experienced coaches can find key tips and tools that will enhance their performance.

Editorial Reviews

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A practical book with wonderful tips, ideas and perspectives. Experience oozes out of every page. -- Kriss Akabusi, MBA, MA

Examples of coaching dialogues serve to illustrate how to skillfully handle many coaching situations. -- Sir John Whitmore, author of

The author has achieved the near impossible-demonstrates the potential of coaching as an effective and ethical instrument for change. -- David Hoad, The Mingsmoor Consultancy

About the Author

Angus McLeod, Ph.D., is a well-known and respected coach through his work with individuals, teams and professional coaches. He is widely published in the United States and Europe on both coaching and team development issues.

Product Details

• Paperback: 312 pages
• Publisher: Crown House Publishing; 1st edition (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904424058
• ISBN-13: 978-1904424055
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,401,884 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr Angus McLeod is an author and regular contributor at international conferences, with many published articles on team and coaching performance in the international press. He has held over a dozen corporate board appointments starting in retail and technical (including environmental businesses) and more recently in people-development organizations.
Dr McLeod is Visiting Professor at Birmingham City University and closely associated with the thriving Business School where his research interests include applied research in coaching. He provides a great deal of free resources for managers and coaches on his website at Angus McLeod Associates, including a huge range of videos.
His management books include: 'Me, Myself, My Team' (2000, and revised edition 2006), 'Performance Coaching' (2003) and 'Self-coaching Leadership' (2007) which has been widely reviewed with citations from Judith Delozier and Robert Dilts among many others. His latest book is Performance Coaching Toolkit (with Will Thomas). His books are translated into a number of languages including Russian, Polish and Chinese.
Angus designed the Newcastle College Diploma Course in Performance Coaching with over 15,000 student enrollments in its first three years he and launched the first e-mentoring product in the world, 'Ask Max', with others in 1999. Angus also co-created the not-for-profit coach-development organization, The Coaching Foundation, in 1998. Newcastle has commissioned the Advanced Diploma Course in Coaching from Angus and this was launched in June 2008.
Angus has designed and facilitated many courses and currently these include Management & Leadership Development Programs and Coach Development Programs including programmes that provide coaching skills for use in day-to-day management in the UK Health Service and elsewhere. The undercurrent to his courses is based upon practical learning that can be applied in the workplace the same day and also about personal development: for self-actualization, understanding others and personal effectiveness. He works from Worcestershire in the UK and from Philadelphia in the US.
Angus is an observer-member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists, helping others to reach the advanced test level on motorbikes and has a passion for cuisine and rowing, is Chairman of the Upton Rowing Club and also rows with the Fairmount in Philadelphia.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A very helpful practical book about coaching, April 8, 2011

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Judy Barber "Author of Good Question! The Art... (Edinburgh) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Performance Coaching: The Handbook for Managers, H.R. Professionals and Coaches (Paperback)

Whether or not you are new to coaching this is an important book. I
read it when starting out as a coach in 2003. Re-reading it I realise
how much I learned that easily became second nature. Because coaching
is about creating a good space for the coachee/client it can feel as
if there is not much to it. The client/coachee does it all. But it is
the `not much' that is important, the attentive respectful listening
and the well-timed good questions with so much skill behind them.

Angus quite rightly says `...the skills of the coach can be more of a
way of "being"' than a package of skills used for coaching
intervention.' And it is crucial to keep learning and revising your
skills in order to make the most of your own way of being as a coach.

In 'Performance Coaching' Angus McLeod teaches through dialogues
between himself as coach and different coachees. This brings life to
the techniques. The examples are from coaching at work, but are just
as useful for freelance life coaches and others who wish to master
coaching skills for professional helping conversations. You can see
exactly how gentle questions enable coachees to find new understanding
and confidence, and how people become able to identify practical
steps. Everything Angus does as coach is explained in accompanying
linguistic tips, tools and interventions, so you can easily transfer
skills into your own work. He includes NLP, story-telling, `Clean'
metaphor work and much else which is valuable to know for coaching.

Buy `Performance Coaching', read it, re-read it and make good use of a
very thoughtful and practical book.

Judy Barber, author of Good Question! The Art of Asking Questions to Bring About Positive Change. Coach, Clean facilitator and Workshop leader