RealTime Coaching [Paperback]

Ron Ernst (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 4, 1999

RealTime Coaching is a "how-to" manual for every manager, executive, or leader who is responsible for getting the work of the organization done with and through the cooperation of other people. In RealTime Coaching you'll find a solid, practical theory of "why people do what they do," you'll see coaching in action in four vivid coaching sessions, you'll learn a simple straight forward coaching model, and you'll have the opportunity to discover the values that motivate you and how to adapt your behavioral style for effective coaching.

Editorial Reviews

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RealTime Coaching provides a very common sense approach to coaching that does a much better job of encouraging employee accountability for their performance than other books I've read. I will encourage my management team to use this book as a resource. -- Donald W. Hecht, Director of Sales and Marketing, Elanco Animal Health, Division of Eli Lilly & Company

I would highly recommend this book to any mid-level manager or executive as a concise, cohesive presentation of coaching. It is structured for quick reading, and it is formatted the way reality presents itself--directly and rapidly. I would also give it to my direct reports to read, and then wed cut the time needed for excellent coaching outcomes in half! -- Dale Mowry, Vice President, Harris Corporation

Ron Ernst's RealTime Coaching is a breakthrough how-to book! The theory and practice of coaching are laid out in a pragmatic, easy-to-learn fashion. Excellent real life examples and scenarios. If you learn one new skill this business year, learn coaching via RealTime Coaching! -- Terry Reilly, Sr. Vice President, J. D. Power & Associates

The approach fills a gap in published business theory by tackling, in a practical way, the 'last three feet' of management. It embraces the all important emotional underpinnings of 'doing' rather than just the intellectual basis of "planning to do." -- Charles A. Dowd, President, Delta Faucet Co.

From the Back Cover

RealTime Coaching will help you in these areas and more.

Implement. Understand the difference between planning and implementing and the unique skills required to put your plans into action.

Coach. Work with employees, team members, co-workers in a way that meets your needs, their needs while achieving the goals and objectives of your organization.

Communicate. Discover your unique style of relating and how to adapt your style for more effective coaching!

Motivate. Uncover what truly motivates you and how to unleash the power of motivation in others for the good of your organization.

Empower. Encourage self-responsibility in those you manage by helping them self-evaluate their performance.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 228 pages
• Publisher: Leadership Horizions; 1 edition (January 4, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966886801
• ISBN-13: 978-0966886801
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 8.5 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,413,496 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Real Time Coaching is Real Time Excellent!, December 1, 1999

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Stephen A. Morris (Santa Barbara, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: RealTime Coaching (Paperback)

For most managers and workers coaching is telling or listening to criticism and judgements about events of the past. Real Time Coaching is a collaborative approach designed by the author and based on the coach leading the worker through a simple process of self-evaluation that can be used in almost any situation whether it involves the past, the present or the future. Ernst presents the process in an easy to understand format filled with clear examples and dialogs. This is the best book of its kind I've read to date.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Profound, December 16, 1999

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This review is from: RealTime Coaching with Profile (Paperback)

Real Time Coaching is the simplest, yet most profound, coaching model I have come across in the years I have been coaching. It is a model that is easily understood and urges one to see the cause and effect between their behavior and the results they are achieving. I have gotten rave reviews from all classes who have gone through the model and as one leader in a company said, "I wish my boss would use this approach on me." One of the greatest testimonies to Real Time Coaching is that participants get their own "aha's" and therefore have a high motivation to make the needed changes to achieve the results they, and others, want them to have.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, Results-Now Oriented, & Skips the usual Hype, December 5, 1999

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David A. Burnet "[e-mail]" (Fawn Grove, PA; USA.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: RealTime Coaching (Paperback)

As the Founder of the Coach Center Group, I see a lot of coaches and material about coaching.

It's refreshing to see a book that is not only practical - but Results-Now Oriented. (Too often, some coaches sound like they are reading from a list; or their coaching is oriented to some future that isn't connected to present reality. This book is a cure for all that.)

Coaching is becoming so popular that the hype about coaching isn't helping. A good coach can coach in the present moment, resulting in plans rooted in reality and decisions in the present that get results.

If you want to learn to coach for such in-the-now results, with decisions that actually make a difference -- so that productivity and morale improves, employee turnover is reduced, job satisfaction and effectiveness improves -- then you really ought to look at this book, and read it. Take it seriously, apply what it says, try it out.

Because when you do, I expect you'll be getting results that delight you.

--David Burnet, [e-mail]