Coaching for Performance Fifth Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership UPDATED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

• Author: Sir John Whitmore 

• Summary: An international bestseller, featuring the influential GROW model, this book is the founding text of the coaching profession. It explains why enabling people to bring the best out of themselves is the key to driving productivity, growth, and engagement. A meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success. Written by Sir John Whitmore, the pioneer of coaching, and Performance Consultants, the global market leaders in performance coaching, this extensively revised and extended edition will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Brand-new practical exercises, corporate examples, coaching dialogues, and a glossary strengthen the learning process, whilst a critical new chapter demonstrates how to measure the benefits of coaching as a return on investment, ensuring this landmark new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.

Stakeholder Centered Coaching: Maximizing Your Impact as a Coach

• Authors: Marshall Goldsmith, Sal Silvester

• Summary: Executives buy results, not coaching. The problem is that most leadership and executive coaches do not measure the impact of their coaching engagements. They can't prove that their coaching is actually making a difference. They rely too heavily on coach satisfaction surveys and other methods that simply measure reaction and not change. It doesn't have to be that way. It's time to prove our coaching and training impact for our clients, our businesses, and the coaching and training industry as a whole.  This book lays out the framework to help you generate better results from your coaching practice using the Stakeholder Centered Coaching(R) approach, a proven coaching methodology and philosophy created by Marshall Goldsmith that demonstrates ROI and dramatically increases the likelihood of a successful coaching engagement. The best part about Stakeholder Centered Coaching is that it's a process you can use both personally and professionally for creating any kind of transformational change. In this fun and engaging book, Marshall Goldsmith and Sal Silvester submit a mandate for measuring behavior change in leadership development and coaching programs and offer a practical process that enables coaches, trainers, and Organizational Development leaders to measure change in their programs. You'll learn the keys to starting your coaching engagements with a strong foundation, how to implement suggestions from the people most impacted by a coachee, and tips for sustaining behavior change. This is a must-read book for those who believe that more effective leadership leads to better business results.

The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business Third Edition

• • Author: James M Hunt, Joseph R Weintraub

  • Summary : The Coaching Manager, Third Edition provides students and managers alike with the guidance, tools, and examples needed to develop leadership talent and inspire performance.  Using an innovative coaching model, bestselling authors James M. Hunt and Joseph R. Weintraubpresent readers witha developmental coaching methodology to help employees achieve higher levels of skill, experience greater engagement with organizations, and promote personal development.  The thoroughly updated Third Edition reflects the authors’ latest research, which focus on building and maintaining trust, working with others who are different from yourself, and coaching by the use of technology.

The Manager's Coaching Handbook: A Practical Guide to Improving Employee Performance (A Walk The Walk Handbook)

• • Author: David Cottrell

  • Summary : "Will someone out there please develop a simple guide to improving employee performance for busy managers like us?" Your colleagues spoke, we listened ... and here it is! The Manager's Coaching Handbook provides managers, supervisors, and team leaders with simple, easy-to-follow guidelines for positively affecting employee performance. Within these pages you'll find practical strategies for dealing with superior performers, those with performance problems, and everyone in between. This book is a must have for ALL leaders. Looking for a bunch of long-winded theory? You won't find it here! We "cut right to the chase" and give you proven tools you can use immediately - tools to make your job (and your life) easier.

A Manager's Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best From Your Employees Paperback

• • Author: Anne Loehr, Brian Emerson

  • Summary : To stay on top, companies need to do more than just survive, they need to grow. Thus, their employees need to develop and improve their skills at the same pace. Brian Emerson and Ann Loehr have spent years showing some of the country's top companies how to develop their most promising employees. In this helpful manual, they guide managers through every step of the coaching process, from problem solving to developing accountability. In A Manager's Guide to Coaching, you will discover:

    • the top 10 tips every manager should know before he starts to coach

    • how to handle difficult conversations, conflicting priorities, and problem team members

    • how to hold follow-up meetings after goals and priorities have been set

    • sample questions they can adapt to various situations

    • examples of common problems and how they can use coaching to address them.

    • More than ever, managers are being encouraged to improve employee performance through effective coaching, but many lack the time or knowledge it takes to do so. A Manager's Guide to Coaching teaches you how to coach your team effectively and successfully.