Coaching for Performance: A Practical Guide to Growing Your Own Skills (People Skills for Professionals Series) - Softcover

John Whitmore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857880137 ISBN 13: 9781857880137

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey, 1997

Synopsis

Written by an expert coach, this book provides practical skills for coaching and invaluable insights into more effective communication. This clear, concise guide shows how to follow the GROW sequence--Goals, Reality, Options, Will--to generate prompt action and peak performance.

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From the Publisher

Packed with powerful hands-on tools, this new edition brings up-to-date John Whitmore's popular GROW model and adds three new chapters on making work and goal-setting meaningful, a spiritual approach to coaching, and coaching the organization's culture. Whitmore explores the dynamics of team development, positioning coaching as the essential team leadership skill, and provides extensive examples of effective questions that can help ensure full participation in the performance improvement process. Whether used as a self-study guide, by corporate trainers, by managers with direct reports, or by the growing legions of professional coaches and management consultants, this classic coaching guide—written in Whitmore's classic coaching style—clearly demonstrates the power of coaching as both a tool and the essence of corporate culture change.

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Introduction PART I: THE PRINCIPLES OF COACHING 1 What is Coaching? 2 Manager as Coach 3 The Nature of Change 4 The Nature of Coaching 5 Effective Questions 6 The Sequence of Questioning 7 Goal Setting 8 What is Reality? 9 What Options Do You Have? 10 What Will You Do? PART II: THE PRACTICE OF COACHING 11 What is Performance? 12 Learning and Enjoyment 13 Motivation and Self-Belief 14 Coaching for Meaning and Purpose 15 Feedback and Assessment 16 The Development of a Team 17 Coaching Teams 18 Overcoming Barriers to Coaching 19 The Multiple Benefits of Coaching PART III: LEADERSHIP FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE 20 The Challenge to Leaders 21 The Foundation of Leadership 22 The Qualities of Leadership PART IV: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH TRANSPERSONAL COACHING 23 Emotional Intelligence 24 Tools of Transpersonal Psychology 25 The Future Focus of Coaching VIII Book Description: Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose is a guide for coaching written in true coaching style. This best-selling handbook by John Whitmore will help leaders learn the skills to coach effectively, uniting people under one purpose to improve performance. Adopted by many of the world's major corporations, this title's easy-to-understand methods argue for the use of effective questions and the growing need to relate to the individual's sense of meaning and purpose. With countless real-life examples, Coaching for Performance treats coaching as an art and helps readers come to understand and gain the important skills they need to become great coaches and leaders. For anyone who has ever had the desire to become a more productive leader, this book is not to be missed! IX Excerpt Chapter #:

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Edition details

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 1857880137
• ISBN 13: 9781857880137
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 128