Coaching for Commitment: Achieveing Superior Performance from Individuals and Teams , Third Edition - Hardcover

Coe, Cindy; Zehnder, Amy; Kinlaw, Dennis C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787982490 ISBN 13: 9780787982492

Publisher: Pfeiffer, 2007

Synopsis

This new, third edition of the best-selling Coaching for Commitment is based on the groundbreaking coaching work of the late Dennis C. Kinlaw.  In this thoroughly revised and updated edition the authors, Cindy Coe and Amy Zehnder clearly show that coaching is a proven strategy for improving performance in today’s environment of intense competitiveness for total customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and the drive to deliver superior products and services.

This book includes the most current coaching strategies and methodologies and provides information on the latest definitions of what coaching is and ways to succeed at coaching. The authors take Kinlaw’s concept of tying coaching and commitment one step further and make commitment to action part of a new coaching model. Coaching for Commitment offers a practical, how-to guide to coaching for anyone (no matter what their skill level) who wants to hone their coaching skills for a range of circumstances and using a variety of methods--face-to-face, with a virtual team, on the fly, by phone, or e-mail.

Coaching for Commitment is filled with easy to use tools, illustrative examples, and sample coaching conversations that clearly show how to use the coaching process, understand the underlying model, and develop the needed skills.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Coaching for Commitment

"In today's workplace,everyone can be a coach."
—Dennis C. Kinlaw, Ed.D.

This third edition of the best-selling Coaching for Commitment is based on the groundbreaking coaching work of the late Dennis C. Kinlaw. In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, the authors Cindy Coe and Amy Zehnder clearly show that coaching is a proven strategy for improving performance in today's environment of intense competitiveness for total customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and the drive to deliver superior products and services.

This newest edition expands on the foundational work of coaching of Dennis Kinlaw and includes the most current coaching strategies and methodologies and provides information on the latest definitions of what coaching is and ways to succeed at coaching. The authors take Kinlaw's concept of tying coaching and commitment one step further and make commitment to action part of the coaching model. Coaching for Commitment offers a practical, how-to guide to coaching for anyone (no matter what their skill level) who wants to hone their coaching skills for a range of circumstances—face-to-face, with a virtual team, on the fly, phone, or e-mail.

Coaching for Commitment is filled with handy tools, illustrative examples, and sample coaching conversations that clearly show how to use the coaching process, understand the underlying model, and develop the needed skills.

From the Back Cover:

Coaching as a Strategy forImproving Performance

"Sustained superior performance occurs, most of all, because people are committed to do their level best all of the time. Coaching is a proven strategy for building such commitment.

This book is about coaching and is based on a combined total of over forty years of coaching experience, researching and writing about coaching, and teaching the value and skills of coaching to others. It describes coaching as a strategy for improving performance that has special utility in today's climate of intense competitiveness for total customer satisfaction, continuous improvement, and the drive to deliver products and services 100 percent perfect 100 percent of the time. It also describes coaching as a function of helping people discover new and creative solutions to complex and difficult situations, while becoming more committed to taking action."
—From the Introduction

About this edition

• Publisher: Pfeiffer
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0787982490
• ISBN 13: 9780787982492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 272