Coaching, Mentoring and Managing: A Coach Guidebook

INTRODUCTION

Value the person and enjoy the results.

There are two realities in business today: Get results and keep your result-getters! This is becoming increasingly difficult as globalization, technology and demographic changes bombard today’s managers. Add to this the increased roles and responsibilities placed on the manager and chaos erupts.

First, managers were hired to manage — take care of the business. Then, managers had to be leaders — provide vision and mission. Now, they must recruit and train, inspire and motivate, correct and empower. What’s a poor manager to do?

The answer is to coach. As a 21st-century manager, you are continually challenged to shift how you, as a leader, manage your most important and only unlimited resource: ...