Best Practice in Performance Coaching
A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations
1st Edition
Published on 3. October 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-7494-6354-0 (ISBN)
Description
Effective performance coaching can help individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development, improves productivity, performance and motivation, and helps to create a work/life balance.
Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for anyone thinking of becoming or hiring a coach - whether private or corporate - and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the 'what' and the 'how' of performance coaching, it covers a broad range of topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship.
The book contains extensive guidance on coaching techniques and the best-known and emerging models and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions. Complete with worksheets and exercises, evaluations and international case studies, this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.
Forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson.
Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for anyone thinking of becoming or hiring a coach - whether private or corporate - and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the 'what' and the 'how' of performance coaching, it covers a broad range of topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship.
The book contains extensive guidance on coaching techniques and the best-known and emerging models and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions. Complete with worksheets and exercises, evaluations and international case studies, this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.
Forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 233 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
400 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7494-6354-0 (9780749463540)
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Carol Wilson
Best Practice in Performance Coaching
A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations
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Person
Carol Wilson is a speaker, writer and broadcaster, and former Head of Professional Standards and currently on the Global Advisory Panel at the Association for Coaching. As founder of Performance Coach Training Ltd, she designs and delivers coaching programmes to commercial organizations all over the world as well as schools and county councils in the United Kingdom. She experienced the value of a coaching culture first hand while working at board level with Sir Richard Branson at Virgin, and became the first woman in the world to found a successful record company, before holding board-level positions at Polygram and WEA.