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

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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