The Library Leader's Guide to Employee Coaching
Building a Performance Culture One Meeting at a Time
Will be published approx. on 9. July 2026
192 pages
979-8-216-19609-9 (ISBN)
Description
Can library leaders improve their employees' work performance using structured coaching meetings, instead of discipline? Yes. This book tells you how.
Trained, empowered, and employee-focused coaches can provide a prescription for change in their libraries - using their experience, guidance, mentoring, and support - to address a complex organizational problem: how to get the very best from the gathered employees (at all levels) for that work day.
Employees can be both taught and led, using coaching interventions that serve to redirect misguided, unproductive, time-wasting, or even unethical or inappropriate behaviors. Using real-life examples from libraries, government, and the private sector, The Library Leader's Guide to Employee Coaching teaches its readers to work for organizational and employee change by starting with rapport-building conversations; relating relevant stories; using Performance Improvement Plans and/or Behavior Improvement Plans; discussing consequences as needed; and providing no small amounts of hope, praise, and patience.
Trained, empowered, and employee-focused coaches can provide a prescription for change in their libraries - using their experience, guidance, mentoring, and support - to address a complex organizational problem: how to get the very best from the gathered employees (at all levels) for that work day.
Employees can be both taught and led, using coaching interventions that serve to redirect misguided, unproductive, time-wasting, or even unethical or inappropriate behaviors. Using real-life examples from libraries, government, and the private sector, The Library Leader's Guide to Employee Coaching teaches its readers to work for organizational and employee change by starting with rapport-building conversations; relating relevant stories; using Performance Improvement Plans and/or Behavior Improvement Plans; discussing consequences as needed; and providing no small amounts of hope, praise, and patience.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
File size
0,50 MB
ISBN-13
979-8-216-19609-9 (9798216196099)
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Steve Albrecht
The Library Leader's Guide to Employee Coaching
Building a Performance Culture One Meeting at a Time
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Person
Steve Albrecht is a library consultant and coach, offering training on service, safety, and security. He is board-certified in human resources, security management, employee coaching, and threat assessment. He is the author of several books including The Library Leader's Guide to Employee Coaching: Building a Performance Culture One Meeting at a Time (Rowman & Littlefield, 2025) and The Safe Library: Keeping Users, Staff, and Collections Secure (Rowman & Littlefield, 2023).
Content
Chapter 1: Making the Business Case for Employee Coaching
Chapter 2: Coaching the Uncoachable?: Generational and Motivational Challenges
Chapter 3:The Coaching Process: Step by Step
Chapter 4: Coaching Tools: Supporting the Meeting Work
Chapter 5: Developmental Coaching: Setting the Path
Chapter 6: Corrective Coaching: Setting Them Straight
Chapter 7: Special Coaching Situations: Dealing With the Hard Stuff
Chapter 8: Coaching 15 Types of Employees Who Challenge Us: The Archetypes (Part 1)
Chapter 9: Coaching 15 Types of Employees Who Challenge Us: The Archetypes (Part 2)
Chapter 10:Proving Your Coaching Results: Follow-ups and Follow-Throughs
Appendix
About the Author
Chapter 2: Coaching the Uncoachable?: Generational and Motivational Challenges
Chapter 3:The Coaching Process: Step by Step
Chapter 4: Coaching Tools: Supporting the Meeting Work
Chapter 5: Developmental Coaching: Setting the Path
Chapter 6: Corrective Coaching: Setting Them Straight
Chapter 7: Special Coaching Situations: Dealing With the Hard Stuff
Chapter 8: Coaching 15 Types of Employees Who Challenge Us: The Archetypes (Part 1)
Chapter 9: Coaching 15 Types of Employees Who Challenge Us: The Archetypes (Part 2)
Chapter 10:Proving Your Coaching Results: Follow-ups and Follow-Throughs
Appendix
About the Author
