October 2022
Beginner
208 pages
4h 9m
English
book
Coaching Essentials for Managers: The Tools You Need to Ignite Greatness in Each Employee
by Sara Canaday
Overview
"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 Worksheet, and Coaching Development Plan
Filled with self-assessments, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises to help reinforce what you've learned, Coaching Essentials for Managers will help you walk away feeling fully prepared to coach your employees to do their best, most engaged work—a leadership "superpower" that now, more than ever, is needed in today's rapidly evolving workplace.
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