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Performance Coaching For Dummies
Gladeana McMahon (Author), Averil Leimon (Author)
9780470517482, Wiley
Paperback / softback, published 8 February 2008
304 pages
23.6 x 18.8 x 1.8 cm, 0.562 kg
Performance coaching is a modern and rapidly growing method used to assist development, and involves helping individuals to improve their performance in all areas of their life, with a particular emphasis on the workplace. Performance coaching draws parallels with NLP and often focuses on the psychology of excellence – making what’s good even better, and helping individuals keep ahead of the game. On an organisational level it can include helping managers to consider how to get the best from their staff, peers and superiors, as well as helping to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. A performance coach assists individuals in building on their successes and helps to design, plan and instigate successful business/life strategies. Despite its popularity confusion still surrounds coaching. It is a relatively new area and there is still a lack of understanding about how best to use coaching and in what specific situations it will be most effective. In addition to this, anyone can assume a performance/professional/business/life coach title without holding any particular qualification or registration. With this increased awareness and confusion the need for a no-nonsense book on the topic that offers trusted advice is needed all the more, which is where Performance Coaching For Dummies steps in.
Introduction 1 Part I: Getting to Grips: Introducing Performance Coaching 5 Chapter 1: Coaching for Performance 7 Chapter 2: Getting the Process Right 21 Chapter 3: Deciding What You Want to Achieve and Setting the Structure 39 Part II: Does Your Face Fit?: The Personal Attributes of a Performance Coach 53 Chapter 4: Starting the Relationship with Trust and Respect 55 Chapter 5: Getting Your Hands Dirty: The Practical Skills of Performance Coaching 67 Chapter 6: Advancing Your Skills: The Magic of Motivation 91 Chapter 7: Equipping Your Coaching Toolkit 107 Part III: Applying Performance Coaching 117 Chapter 8: Getting the Best: Talent Management 119 Chapter 9: Managing Change 127 Chapter 10: Following the Organisational Life Cycle 139 Chapter 11: Managing Careers 157 Chapter 12: Getting the Best Out of Your Teams 171 Part IV: Troubleshooting in Performance Coaching 189 Chapter 13: Coping with Difficult Situations 191 Chapter 14: Overcoming Negativity 203 Chapter 15: Managing Organisational Problems 213 Part V: The Part of Tens 229 Chapter 16: Ten Steps to Performance Excellence 231 Chapter 17: Ten Steps to Coaching Yourself 239 Chapter 18: Ten Useful Resources 249 Appendix: Forms 253 Index 265
Subject Areas: Self-help & personal development [VS]
