McMahon / Leimon Performance Coaching For Dummies

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-119-99766-5
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

Performance coaching is a modern and rapidly growing method used toassist development, and involves helping individuals to improvetheir performance in all areas of their life, with a particularemphasis on the workplace. Performance coaching draws parallelswith NLP and often focuses on the psychology of excellence -making what's good even better, and helping individuals keepahead of the game. On an organisational level it can includehelping managers to consider how to get the best from their staff,peers and superiors, as well as helping to identify strengths,weaknesses, opportunities and threats. A performance coach assistsindividuals in building on their successes and helps to design,plan and instigate successful business/life strategies.

Despite its popularity confusion still surrounds coaching. It isa relatively new area and there is still a lack of understandingabout how best to use coaching and in what specific situations itwill be most effective. In addition to this, anyone can assume aperformance/professional/business/life coach title without holdingany particular qualification or registration. With this increasedawareness and confusion the need for a no-nonsense book on thetopic that offers trusted advice is needed all the more, which iswhere Performance Coaching For Dummies steps in.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McMahon, Gladeana

Leimon, Averil

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.
Part I: Getting to Grips: Introducing PerformanceCoaching.
Chapter 1: Coaching for Performance.
Chapter 2: Getting the Process Right.
Chapter 3: Deciding What You Want to Achieve and Setting theStructure.
Part II: Does Your Face Fit?: The Personal Attributes of aPerformance Coach.
Chapter 4: Starting the Relationship with Trust and Respect.
Chapter 5: Getting Your Hands Dirty: The Practical Skills ofPerformance Coaching.
Chapter 6: Advancing Your Skills: The Magic of Motivation.
Chapter 7: Equipping Your Coaching Toolkit.
Part III: Applying Performance Coaching.
Chapter 8: Getting the Best: Talent Management.
Chapter 9: Managing Change.
Chapter 10: Following the Organisational Life Cycle.
Chapter 11: Managing Careers.
Chapter 12: Getting the Best Out of Your Teams.
Part IV: Troubleshooting in Performance Coaching.
Chapter 13: Coping with Difficult Situations.
Chapter 14: Overcoming Negativity.
Chapter 15: Managing Organisational Problems.
Part V: The Part of Tens.
Chapter 16: Ten Steps to Performance Excellence.
Chapter 17: Ten Steps to Coaching Yourself.
Chapter 18: Ten Useful Resources.
Appendix: Forms.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Gladeana McMahon was named as one of the UK's top tencoaches by the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Observer.
Averil Leimon is a leading international coach and anaccreditor for the Association for Coaching.