
Developing High Performance People
The Art Of Coaching
Perseus Books (Publisher)
Published on 21. June 1993
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-201-56313-9 (ISBN)
Description
In today's economy corporations are emphasizing performance improvement over increasing head count. Self-managed work teams, empowerment of employees, and organizational learning all present different challenges for today's manager. How do managers succeed in this environment? A new set of managerial skills is necessary. Developing High-Performance People is the only book to address this changing role of the manger. Developing High-Performance People should be read by all supervisors and managers human resources managers trainers who conduct coaching/counseling courses and professors in management, human resources, or career counseling,everyone who wants to learn how to build trust and involvement with employees and how to effectively evaluate employee performance. create a high performance environment help workers to deal with barriers to top performance analyze their own level of competency as a coach personalize a performance plan for each employee develop a practical action plan for employee training and development
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Boulder
United States
Publishing group
INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
550 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-201-56313-9 (9780201563139)
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Persons
Oscar G. Mink is a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the director of Graduate Study and Research in Human Resource Development.Keith Q. Owen is a division chairperson of Social and behavioural Sciences at Austin Community College.Barbara P. Mink is a founding faculty member of the Human and Organization Program at the Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and she is president of Somerset Consulting Group, Inc., in Austin, Texas. All three authors are senior consultants in Somerset Consulting Group, Inc., whose clients include Chevron, 3M, IBM, and Telecom-Australia.
Content
* Coaching: The Art of Encouraging Others to Experience Their Power What Is Coaching? * What Is Coaching? Creating A High-Performance, Productive Climate * The High-Performance, Productive Environment * Developing Empowering Relationships * Laying the Foundation for the High-Performance Environment Tools For Coaching * Understanding How People Learn and Grow * Coaching for High Performance When Coaching Is Not Enough: Enabling People To Deal With Motivational Problems * Coaching as Renewal * Coping with Failure Endings And New Beginnings * Evolution of a New Paradigm