Book description
Don't fall behind—Coach your business toward success!Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies explores effective coaching strategies that guide you in coaching and mentoring your colleagues. With insight into key coaching concepts and an impressive range of tools, this easy-to-use resource helps you transform your team—and yourself in the process! Written from the perspective of a business coach, this comprehensive book explores the practical coaching skill set, tools, and techniques that will help you along your way, and explains how to identify who to coach, what to coach, how to coach, and when to coach. Whether you have experience in a coaching and mentoring role or you're new to the coaching game, this is a valuable must-have resource.
The right approach to business coaching can take your company from good to great—it can also improve employee satisfaction, employee loyalty, team morale, and your bottom line. The trick is to approach business coaching in a way that is effective and flexible, ensuring that you achieve results while meeting the unique needs of your team. This comprehensive text will help you:
- Understand the foundational concepts of business coaching and mentoring
- Discover how proper coaching and mentoring methods can help get a business on the right track
- Identify and leverage tools to develop your business leadership mindset
- Create a successful personal and business identity with the support and guidance of a coach
Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies is an essential resource for business owners, business leaders, coaches, and mentors who want to take their skills to the next level.
Table of contents
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- Cover
- Introduction
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Part I: Getting Started with Business Coaching and Mentoring
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Chapter 1: Navigating the World of Coaching and Mentoring
- Spotlighting the Business Benefits of Coaching and Mentoring
- Defining Coaching and Mentoring
- Distinguishing Business Coaching from Other Types of Coaching
- Equipping Yourself to Help Other People in the Business Context
- Being on the Other Side as Coachee or Mentee
- Understanding Professional Requirements
- Chapter 2: Presenting a Compelling Case for Coaching and Mentoring
- Chapter 3: Assessing Clients’ Needs before Coaching
- Chapter 4: Developing the Skills and Knowledge Base of a Coach and Mentor
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Chapter 1: Navigating the World of Coaching and Mentoring
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Part II: Coaching and Mentoring to Get a Business on the Right Track
- Chapter 5: Coaching Clients through Their Blind Spots
- Chapter 6: Telling a Compelling Story in Business
- Chapter 7: Mentoring to Assess Business without Rose-tinted Spectacles
- Chapter 8: Developing Vision, Mission and Values Using Simple Coaching Methods
- Chapter 9: Coaching to Transform Visions into Workable Plans
- Part III: Tools to Develop the Business Leader’s Mind-set
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Part IV: Creating a Successful Business Identity with the Support of a Coach
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Chapter 13: Developing the Brand of You
- Enter Personal Branding
- Defining How Brands Work When They Work Well
- Building a Brand on Purpose
- Looking in the Mirror of Self-Critique
- Presenting Yourself with Style and Substance
- Recognising When Incongruence Strikes
- Valuing What You Have to Offer
- Promoting Yourself with Shameless Humility
- Lighting Up the Room When You Walk In, Not When You Walk Out
- Leaving a Legacy Footprint
- Remembering that You Have No Sell-By Date
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Chapter 14: Developing Relationships at All Levels
- Establishing a Successful Relationship with Yourself
- Establishing the Baseline
- Working on Yourself
- Maintaining Client Relationships
- Managing Stakeholder and Sponsor Relationships
- Building Synergistic Collaboration
- Networking Is a Deposit in the Karmic Bank
- Building Trust and Rebuilding Broken Trust
- Having the Courage to Let Go
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Chapter 15: Coaching to Help Business Engage, Inform and Influence
- Understanding the Importance of Effective Communication
- Communicating Quicker Than the Speed of Conscious Thought
- Understanding Why People Say Yes
- If You Have the Need to Influence, You Get to Do All the Work
- Navigating the Political Landscape
- Ethically Influencing and Persuading for Results
- It Takes Two to Influence
- If You Aren’t Getting the Desired Results, Change Your Communication
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Chapter 13: Developing the Brand of You
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Part V: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 16: Ten or So Online Resources to Boost Coaching and Mentoring Effectiveness
- Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Overcome Objections and Change Opinions
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Chapter 18: Ten Tips for Leaders Who Coach or Mentor People in Business
- Develop Talent in Those You Lead
- Sell More than Tell
- Name the Elephant before Eating It
- Get Good at Asking Questions
- Speak in Specifics and Minding Your Language
- Recognise the Value of Slowing Down or Shutting Up
- Appreciate Differences to Be a Difference Maker
- Create the Optimum Conditions to Coach at a Distance
- Support Your People during Change
- Educate Yourself about the Business
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Chapter 19: Ten Questions to Keep a Business on Track
- What Would We Create If Anything Was Possible?
- Why Are We Doing This?
- What Would Richard Branson Do Now?
- What Is a Better Way?
- Are We Still the Right People to Be Doing This?
- Are We Busy Being Busy?
- What Can We Do to Optimise or Streamline?
- Are We Going in the Right Direction?
- What Do We Need to Stop Doing?
- Are We All Still on the Same Page?
- About the Authors
- Cheat Sheet
- Advertisement Page
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Product information
- Title: Business Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2016
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9781119067405
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