Coaching for Performance

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* pr°fessio^\ "The book is well structured, well written and practical in a gentle fashion. It is a good model for those wishing to ^^^HH develop their own facilitating and coaching skills. VH Interesting and topicai, it earns credibility by exploring a philosophy of coaching, not insisting on it." Training and Development JV This bestselling handbook will help you learn the skills, and the art, / I of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. Coaching is now recognized as more positive, effective and empowering than instruction in business. Now that coaching is both the tool and essence of company culture change, even the most successful managers are seeking to adapt their style accordingly. As John Whitmore writes, "Coaching is not merely a technique to be wheeled out and rigidly applied in certain prescribed circumstances. It is a way of rnanaging, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being".... Tovább

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* pr°fessio^\ "The book is well structured, well written and practical in a gentle fashion. It is a good model for those wishing to ^^^HH develop their own facilitating and coaching skills. VH Interesting and topicai, it earns credibility by exploring a philosophy of coaching, not insisting on it." Training and Development JV This bestselling handbook will help you learn the skills, and the art, / I of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. Coaching is now recognized as more positive, effective and empowering than instruction in business. Now that coaching is both the tool and essence of company culture change, even the most successful managers are seeking to adapt their style accordingly. As John Whitmore writes, "Coaching is not merely a technique to be wheeled out and rigidly applied in certain prescribed circumstances. It is a way of rnanaging, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being". Adopted by many of the world's major corporations, this easy to use title argues persuasively for using questions, rather than instructions and commands, and following the GROW sequence - Goals, Reality, Options, Will - to generate prompt action and peak performance. It explores the dynamics of team development and it positions coaching as the essential team leadership skill. The new edition of this practical guide has detailed advice on avoiding a 'blame culture' and fostering empowered performance. It contains extensive examples of effective questions for generating awareness and responsibility - questions which compel the coachee to think, demand high resolution focus, are descriptive not judgemental, and provide the coach with a feedback loop. There are new sections on motivation and building self-esteem through coaching, feedback and feedforward, and a brand new chapter on learning and enjoyment. Clear, concise, hands-on and reader-friendly, this is a coaching guide written in a coaching style. Sir John Whitmore consults and lectures widely 011 coaching and humán resource management together with his colleagues Dávid Hemery and Dávid Whitaker of Performance Consultants. After running businesses in the UK, Switzerland and USA he founded Inner Game Ltd with Timothy Gallwey which has been liighly influential in introducing new approaches to sports and business training. Sir John Whitmore began his career as a professional racing driver, driving for the highly successful Ford team at Le Mans and won both the British and European Saloon Car championships in the 1960s. Vissza