- Edited by the Association for Coaching to provide a best-practice guide for coaching from a senior position
- Explains the skills you need to coach as a leader and shows how to develop them
- Offers guidance on how to encourage individuals and teams to think critically and confidently problem-solve
- Provides advice on how to adapt communication styles to ensure that language is clear and direct whilst also being supportive and motivational
- Includes discussion of how to maintain boundaries between senior practitioners and the workforce and safeguard confidentiality
Coaching as a Leader
How to Coach Individuals and Teams for Improved Performance
Learn how to coach individuals and teams as a leader with this best-practice book.
Key features at a glance
EAN: 9781398621169
Edition: 1
Published:
Format: 234x156
216 pages
About the book
Coaching individuals and teams is an essential part of a leader's role. Without effective coaching, employees and businesses will never reach their full potential but how do you get this right?
How can leaders encourage people to think critically and confidently problem-solve? How can they adapt their communication style to make sure that language is clear and direct but also supportive and motivational? How can leaders use their coaching skills to influence employee behaviour and company culture?
This book answers all these questions and more to provide leaders, senior executives and senior coaches with a best-practice guide on how to coach from a senior position. It covers the skills you need to coach as a leader as well as how to adopt a coaching approach to all elements of the employee life cycle from onboarding and engagement through to goal-setting and managing performance.
Coaching as a Leader has been created by senior business professionals together with the Association for Coaching: Linda Beatty, Ross Hunter, Jennifer Kidby, Victoria Leath, Katy McGregor, Nuha Al Moosa, Andy Murphy, Dena Paris, Angela Ryan, Paul Williamson and Tony Worgan.
About the authors
The Association for Coaching (AC) is an independent, non-profit professional body with the goal to advance the profession of coaching worldwide. Its members are made up of professional coaches, providers of coaching, and organizations building coaching cultures in over 90 countries. The AC is headquartered in London, UK.
Jennifer Kidby has been applying psychology in the workplace for over 25 years, working as an external consultant, an internal practitioner and a leader. Based in Ontario, Canada, she is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an accredited coach and coach supervisor.
This book is like having a coach in your pocket for when you need it most in your work life. Whether you are looking for self-coaching in your career or want to apply coaching to how you lead a team, the authors provide practical, readily applicable coaching frameworks and approaches for leaders navigating our global, ever-changing workplace. Being a 'Leader coach' is a critical mindset and skill for today, it enables you to coach teams to be more resilient in the face of uncertainty, collaborate better and lead inclusively. A highly useful guide for all managers and leaders.
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