Brilliant Coaching 2e How to be a brilliant coach in your workplace

by Starr, Julie

• ISBN13: 9780273762423
• ISBN10: 0273762427
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-28
• Publisher: FT Press

Summary

Master today's #1 must-have leadership skill! Become an outstanding coach, and help your team and subordinates excel at everything they do! Master the mindset of a 'coaching manager,' learn the core skills of effective coaching, apply those skills in the today's common coaching scenarios--and achieve the outcomes you're looking for! Extensive updates throughout, including new coverage of choosing your most effective personal coaching style. By Julie Starr, a 20-year expert in coaching and business change management. Coaching is the must-have leadership skill for the coming decade. Brilliant Coaching 2nd Ed, is the definitive, practical, up-to-the-minute guide to becoming an outstanding coach--and coaching your people and teams to outstanding levels of performance and success. Top performance consultant Julie Starr teaches simple, practical ways to unlock your own unique coaching abilities, and reap the business and personal rewards. Drawing on her own extensive experience coaching and teaching others to do so, Starr helps you: Understand exactly what coaching is--and isn't. Get past 'ego' and other obstacles to effective coaching interactions. Build rapport and relationships. Focus your listening, ask more effective questions, and provide more constructive feedback. Coaching when you're in charge of the agenda--and when your 'coachee' is. Mastering valuable 'response coaching' techniques. ° And much more. Updated throughout, this edition adds extensive new coverage of choosing your best styles of coaching, and developing the flexibility to succeed with diverse coaching challenges and many different types of individuals.

Author Biography

Julie Starr is a highly respected coach and management consultant who works with both organisations and individuals. She has over 20 years experience within business and change management focusing on the opportunity presented by people. She combines many years of coaching experience with a constant study related to human success and fulfilment, to develop coaching practices and principles that really work.

Table of Contents

About the author

Acknowledgements

Introduction

 

Part 1   Awareness

1    What is coaching?

2    What is the mindset of a coaching manager?

3    How does our ego limit our ability to coach?                                                 

 

Part 2   Ability                                                                                                           

4    Building rapport or relationship

5    Focused listening

6    Effective questioning

7    A flexible style of influence

8    Constructive feedback

 

Part 3   Application

9    Off-line: when the coachee has the topic or agenda

10  Off-line: when the manager has the topic or agenda

11  Off-line: when both the coachee and the manager have things to discuss

12  On-line: Response Coaching

 

Part 4   Action                                                                                                           

13  Taking your learning forward

 

Index