High-Performance Coaching for Managers: A Step-by-Step Approach to Increase Employees' Performance and Productivity

Coaching is a necessary skill for managers and is essential for talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies. Performance Coaching for Managers provides an important tool for organizations to train their managers on coaching. This book adopts a directive approach by casting the coach as a manager who diagnoses the problems with worker job performance and offers specific advice on how to solve them. The significant difference between this book and other books in the coaching market is the authors' collective experience of over 70 combined years of hands-on research and delivery experiences in the Human Resources Development field. Effective managers should be able to offer direction to their employees, and this book gives managers direction in how to offer directive coaching to their workers.

Format: Hardback
Length: 534 pages
Publication date: 05 July 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Coaching is a vital skill for managers, as it plays a fundamental role in an organization's talent efforts, encompassing talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies. For a coaching program to succeed, it must be recognized as a valuable approach across the organization and integrated into the corporate culture. Performance Coaching for Managers offers an essential tool for organizations to train their managers in coaching.

This book stands out significantly from other coaching books in the market. In many coaching books, coaches are portrayed as facilitators who guide their clients (coachees) in articulating their problems, formulating solutions, developing action plans, and measuring the success of their efforts. This approach is known as a nondirective approach. However, this book adopts a directive approach by casting the coach as a manager who diagnoses job performance issues and provides specific advice on resolving them. While a nondirective approach can be effective, it may not be the most suitable in job performance reviews, where managers need to communicate gaps between desired outcomes and actual performance.

The key difference between this book and the available market offerings lies in the authors' collective experience of over 70 years of hands-on research and delivery experiences in the Human Resources Development field. According to the Harvard Business Review (2015), workers expect their immediate supervisors to provide honest feedback on their job performance and offer specific guidance on improving their skills. This book fills a gap in the coaching literature by offering a practical and directive approach that aligns with the expectations of managers and employees alike.

Weight: 1200g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367740603