Performance Coaching: A Complete Guide to Best Practice Coaching and Training - Softcover

Wilson, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749470313 ISBN 13: 9780749470319

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2014

Synopsis

Performance Coaching offers a guide to the fundamentals of coaching with an overview of all the key principles, tools and case studies you need to develop more advanced knowledge. Whether you're thinking about becoming a coach, already running a professional coaching practice or thinking about how you can embed a coaching culture in your organization, Carol Wilson illustrates how to develop a best practice approach. Using practical tools throughout and with international case studies to illustrate the various cultural challenges coaches and managers can face, Performance Coaching is a complete resource for developing coaching in any organization. This new edition of Performance Coaching has been completely updated to offer a greater focus on building a coaching culture in organizations and the challenges that leaders face in understanding and developing a coaching approach.

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About the Author

Carol Wilson is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management, the Association for Coaching, and the Professional Speaking Association. She is on the Global Advisory Panel at the Association for Coaching and a Trustee to the non-profit MOE Foundation, where she designs coaching programmes for underprivileged young people and the African Prisons Project.

A multicultural expert, Carol Wilson has designed coaching and leadership programmes all over the world for organisations including IKEA, Philip Morris, the BBC, Hilti and NCR. She has won and been nominated for several awards for coaching and writing. She is the author of Performance Coaching, A Complete Guide to Best Practice Coaching and Training featuring forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson; she has also contributed to 6 books and published over 50 articles.

Carol experienced the value of a coaching culture firsthand during a decade working at board level with Sir Richard Branson at Virgin. Later she held board-level positions with Island Records, Warner Brothers and Polygram. Since entering the coaching field in 2000 she has studied with thought leaders including Nancy Kline and Tim Gallwey, and collaborated with Sir John Whitmore David Grove.

She is a keynote speaker at conferences worldwide including The HR Summit Budapest, the Asian Emerging Leaders Summit Hong Kong, Guts for Change Mumbai, Catalyst Australia, HRD London, and the China Executive Coaching Conference Shanghai.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749470313
• ISBN 13: 9780749470319
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 408