The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You [Paperback]

Max Landsberg (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2009

A bestselling business title on how to unlock the potential of people by applying the techniques of coaching. Coaching is the key to realising the potential of your employees, your organisation and yourself. The good news is that becoming a great coach requires nurturing just a few simple skills and habits. This bestselling and classic business book, now revised and relaunched, takes you through the stages needed to implement coaching to maximum effect. Easy to read and apply, the book provides the techniques and tools of coaching that are vital for anyone who wants to develop a team of people who will perform effectively and who will relish working with you. Since its publication in 1996, it has become the bible for the coaching manager.

Editorial Reviews

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"Great coaches are made not born, and [in the Tao of Coaching] the great coaches of tomorrow have found exactly where to start their journey."-David Kirk, former Captain of the All Blacks rugby team

"Successful leaders inspire ordinary people to achieve the extraordinary. This book will help you get the best out of your colleagues and yourself."-Christopher Rodrigues, Group Chief Executive, Bradford and Bingley Building Society

About the Author

Max Landsberg is an internationally recognized authority on executive coaching and professional development. His books on coaching, motivation and leadership have sold more than 200,000 copies and have been translated into 14 languages. He is a regular instructor on corporate educational programs, and serves as faculty on courses for professional coaches.

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Profile Books (January 1, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 186197650X
• ISBN-13: 978-1861976505
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #296,850 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A brief guide to key skills, February 23, 2005

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Bill Godfrey (Mt Stuart, TAS Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You (Paperback)

One of three short books on key skills for leaders and managers. The others are The Tao of Motivation and The Tools of Leadership.

Each is written around a brief story about 'Alex', on his journey from manager to CEO, with each episode designed to illustrate some aspect of the coaching/motivation/leadership challenge. Each episode is followed by a two page summary of the particular skill needed to meet the challenge. Each book has a useful bibliography to guide the reader to more detail where desired and a suite of Appendices covering further details on key aspects of skill.

There is naturally some overlap between the books, but each is valuable in its own right and the set combine to provide a thoughtful, practical and readily referenced guide to the key elements in the human side of management and leadership.

The Tao of Coaching deals with such skills as eliciting and giving feedback, diagnosing the styles of individuals, taking account of the skill and will of the coachee and techniques of motivating (subsequently expanded into a book of its own).

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Coaching at it's inspirational best, November 2, 2009

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R. Lou "Rob" (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You (Paperback)

We have used this little book for the last few coaching classes (mandatory for all our managers and supervisors) because it is extremely readable and inspirational.

4.0 out of 5 stars Crash Course in Coaching, January 29, 2011

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Christine Brown-Quinn (St Albans, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You (Paperback)

It's easy to forget that our most valuable resource in business is people. I wish I had read this book years ago before I took on management responsibilities. It not only makes business sense to coach others (formally and informally), but it's also incredibly rewarding. This book shows you how in a concise, entertaining way. Christine Brown-Quinn, The Female Capitalist (TM), Author of "Step Aside Super Woman"