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

Title: Best Practice in Performance Coaching : A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations
Author: Carol Wilson
ISBN: 0749463546 / 9780749463540
Format: Soft Cover
Pages: 256
Publisher: Kogan Page
Year: 2011
Availability: In Stock

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

Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for anyone thinking of becoming or hiring a coach - whether private or corporate - and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the "what" and the "how" of performance coaching, it covers a broad range of topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship.

The book contains extensive guidance on coaching techniques and the best-known and emerging 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 worksheets and exercises, evaluations and international case studies, this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.

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Foreword By Sir John Whitmore
Foreword By Sir Richard Branson
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Part I : Fundamentals
Chapter 1 :
What is Coaching?
Chapter 2 : Coaching Techniques
Chapter 3 : Coaching Models
Chapter 4 : Structure
Chapter 5 : Training as a Coach
Chapter 6 : Running a Professional Coaching Practice
Chapter 7 : How to Create a Coaching Culture in Organizations

Part II : Advanced Coaching
Chapter 8 :
Coaching Tools
Chapter 9 : Case Histories

Appendix A : Awareness Questions
Appendix B : Worksheets
Appendix C : Sample Coaching Agreements
Appendix D : Coaching Evaluation
Resources
About The Author
Index