Coaching Solutions

This book offers practical tools to help individuals, teams and organizations secure the improvements they want. The highly successful first edition was the first book to take the coaching approach out of the world of business and sport and into education. This is a new edition of the first book to take the coaching approach out of the world of business and sport and place it directly into education. Coaching is a proven method of improving individual and team performance: its success derives from an understanding that all meaningful progress is driven from within. "Coaching Solutions, 2nd Edition" offers practical tools to help individuals, teams and organizations secure the improvements they want. The authors Will Thomas and Alistair Smith have years of experience of development work in and around education. The book is for: teachers who want a way of better understanding and motivating the hard-to-reach; managers who want to help their team reclaim the agenda; leaders who want an institutional focus that will bring energy to the system; and parents who have a reluctant youngster at home. "Coaching Solutions" contains sections on: What is coaching?; How do you coach?;
Where do you begin with coaching?; How could you develop a coaching organization? It provides dialogues and case studies and cites evidence of success. There are examples of schools using coaching successfully to bring about change, together with masterclasses at the end of every chapter. Written in a comprehensive style, this book is your passport to progress.