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"How can you achieve coaching excellence? Use the latest research and insights from some of the biggest industry names in this fully revised fourth edition, which provides a diverse range of theory, tools and models for students and practicing coaches alike. Excellence in Coaching is a comprehensive guide presenting the latest cutting-edge thinking in the field of workplace coaching. Published with the Association for Coaching, this book covers all...
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The age-old question for every leader: how do we bring out the best in those we lead? Anyone who has run a company, raised a family, lead an army, or coached a team struggles to find the key to help others excel and realize their potential. It is surprising how often we resort to criticism vs. an approach that actually results in a better worker and a better person. In most organizations, the methods used to provide feedback to employees, such as...
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"Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg and Alan Eagle, the team behind How Google Works, return with the story of Bill Campbell, the greatest executive business coach the world has ever seen, responsible for creating more value than just about anybody else on the planet"--
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"A game-changing model for giving great feedback that employees hear and take to heart. Recent studies have revealed 44% of managers dread giving feedback, and 65% of employees wish their managers gave more feedback. But fear of hurt feelings leads managers to bite back valuable insights. Or they rehearse feedback conversations obsessively in advance--only to find the interchange still doesn't go as planned. However, critical feedback, delivered skillfully...
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"A liberating read that will cause you to act in your own best interests and the best interests of everyone working within your sphere of influence." —John Hoover, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Work for an Idiot
The number one reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is "my manager." This can be for multiple reasons—including one that many managers and executives aren't even aware of: Today's...
The number one reason cited in exit interviews for an employee quitting is "my manager." This can be for multiple reasons—including one that many managers and executives aren't even aware of: Today's...
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"Manage stress, boost resilience and increase productivity. Practicing mindfulness in the workplace has been proven to enhance personal effectiveness, and improve working behaviour and team buildings. With this handy guide, you can incorporate mindfulness into your business plan and quickly reap its many benefits."-- P. 4 of cover.
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"Today, coaching is recognized to be one of the most effective human resource development processes available, and it is becoming increasingly popular in organizations of all sizes. Faced with historically low levels of employee engagement (as little as 13% according to Gallup's latest survey), business leaders see coaching as key to unlocking the human talent, creativity, and innovation that is hiding in plain sight in their workplaces. And rather...
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Learn. Leap. Repeat.
Growth is the goal. Helping people develop their potential-enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term-is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward.
But how do we grow? It turns out it happens in a predictable way, which means we can understand where we are in our growth and chart a way forward. In this compact, complete...
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"W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne changed the field of strategy and the language of business forever with their path-breaking "blue ocean strategy," a new model for creating uncontested markets that unlock all new demand and growth. This book brings together three of their classic Harvard Business Review articles that upend traditional thinking for creating and capturing lasting value. In Blue Ocean Strategy, Kim and Mauborgne introduce the idea of...
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Build Your Coaching Skills to Develop Others
Coaching has the power to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Its interactive process helps individuals set and act upon goals, make better decisions, and produce results.
10 Steps to Successful Coaching offers meaningful advice to help you embrace and elevate your existing coaching skills, drawing upon your strengths as a leader, colleague, or employee to bring out the strengths...
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The most effective leader behaves more like a coach. Authors Bill Eckstrom and Sarah Wirth have spent a decade researching the activities, behaviors, and performance of leaders. After studying more than 100,000 coaching interactions in the workplace, primarily of sales teams, they have been able to determine how coaching affects team outcomes and growth. The authors share three critical performance drivers, along with the four high-growth activities...
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When it comes to mentoring, peer coaching is an undervalued workhorse. It's effective, inexpensive, widely applicable, and relatively easy to implement. Many coaches consider it to be the next wave in professional development. Peer Coaching at Work draws on research and practice to deliver a hands-on guide to this powerful relational learning technique. The authors-all leaders in the field-present a rigorously tested three-part model for facilitating...
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"Managers often lack a clear understanding of what changes they could make to bring out the best in their employees. Here, the authors of the bestselling Blue Ocean Strategy offer a solution: a systematic approach to uncovering, at each level of the organization, which leadership acts and activities will inspire employees to give their all, and a process for getting managers throughout the organization to start doing them."--Back cover.
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Improve performance. Transform you career. Changes lives. Whether your team is in an office, on a field, in a classroom, or in your living room-have you ever thought they had more to give, but you weren't quite sure how to get it out of them? Have you ever wanted them to play up to their potential, but didn't quite know how to make it happen? Are you looking for that one new idea, that one simple strategy that will take your team's performance-and...
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There's a big difference between continuously encouraging employees to do their jobs well (coaching), attempting to fix poor performance (counselling), and helping top performers excel (mentoring). Unfortunately, most managers don't truly understand how and when to do each. The updated and revised edition of "Coaching, Counselling & Mentoring" gives managers specific, practical techniques for using all three to improve the performance of all their...