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Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies, 2nd Edition
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Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies, 2nd Edition

by Leo MacLeod, Marty Brounstein
July 2023
Beginner
384 pages
10h 26m
English
For Dummies
Audiobook available
Content preview from Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 17

Coaching for Development and Improvement

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Discovering the process and strategies for employee development

Bullet Creating development plans to guide the efforts

Bullet Coaching to gain improvement in employee performance

Bullet Dealing with behavior and personal issues that get in the way

Developing your employees is central to managing as a coach. Doer managers (refer to Chapter 2) tend not to put much emphasis in this area — you do your job; I’ll do mine.

Under the coach approach, developing employees is an important part of how time is spent at work. It’s about strengthening and growing employees’ skills, knowledge, and abilities so they’re engaged, committed, and motivated to their own success. You’re emphasizing how job performance and career development complement each other. If the employee is developed to perform at greater levels of skill and capacity, then they’re better positioned to advance in their career.

Chapter 15 describes a process to work alongside the employee to create a plan that integrates both performance and development goals that support the organization’s ...

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