Coaching Essentials for Managers: The Tools You Need to Ignite Greatness in Each Employee

Coaching Essentials for Managers is a comprehensive guide to developing coaching skills for managers, offering a business case for sharpening these skills, practical information and tools, and real-world challenges and solutions. It includes self-assessments, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises to help reinforce what you've learned.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 256 pages
Publication date: 15 November 2022
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

This book is the ultimate guide to retaining and engaging your employees. Readers will walk away feeling fully prepared to coach and inspire their employees to do their best and most engaged work. — Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers

Discover how developing your coaching skills can help unleash your leadership superpower. Helping employees hit their goals and feel engaged at work has always been a rewarding part of a manager's job. But in today's hybrid world, helping your team overcome challenges and feel fully seen, heard, and appreciated is more than simply a nice-to-have skill. Developing a robust, modern approach to coaching can help unlock your leadership superpower.

In Coaching Essentials for Managers, leadership development expert Sara Canaday presents a solid business case for sharpening these skills by explaining the tangible, proven benefits for employees, managers, and their organizations, and reveals that coaching—like many other management skills—is one you can hone and perfect with the right information and tools. Whether you're just starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices, you'll find what you need here, in three easy-to-digest parts:

Part I: The Essentials includes coaching fundamentals, frameworks, attributes of a great coach, a knowledge check, and coaching self-assessment

Part II: The Essentials Applied covers real-world challenges in performance coaching and developmental coaching, common obstacles coaches face, and how to coach in the virtual environment

Part III: Beyond the Essentials explores effective questions, powerful phrases, coaching do's and don'ts, and helpful tools and resources

PLUS: A Coaching Framework Guide, Coaching Preparation Guide, and Coaching Session Record Template

Coaching is a powerful tool that can help managers and employees achieve their goals and feel engaged at work. By developing your coaching skills, you can unlock your leadership superpower and create a more positive and productive work environment.

In Coaching Essentials for Managers, you'll learn how to:

Define coaching and its benefits for employees, managers, and organizations

Identify the key coaching skills and attributes

Apply coaching frameworks and models to real-world situations

Coach in the virtual environment

Overcome common obstacles coaches face

Develop effective questions and powerful phrases

Coaching is a skill that can be learned and perfected with the right information and tools. Whether you're just starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices, Coaching Essentials for Managers is the book for you.

So why wait? Start developing your coaching skills today and unlock your leadership superpower!

Weight: 202g
Dimension: 126 x 179 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781264573585