Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations

Effective performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges, and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps to create a work-life balance. 

Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for those thinking of becoming or hiring a coach -- private or corporate -- and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the "what" and "how" of performance coaching, it covers all topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship. There is extensive guidance on coaching techniques, models, and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions.

Complete with exercises, a foreword by Sir Richard Branson and international case studies on topics such as creating an in-house coaching service at the BBC, this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.

Carol Wilson worked for Richard Branson during the early years of Virgin and founded Virgin Music Publishers. She is now Honorary Vice President and Head of Accreditation at the Association for Coaching, Managing Director of Performance Coach Training in the UK, and on the Executive committee of Performance Consultants International.