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COACHING IS THE KEY TO UNLOCKING THE POTENTIAL OF YOUR PEOPLE, YOUR ORGANISATION AND YOURSELF.
The good news is that becoming a great coach requires nurturing just a few simple skills and habits. Max Landsberg, responsible for professional development programmes at McKinsey & CO in the UK, takes you through the stages needed to implement coaching to maximum effect. He shows how to:
Nurture an environment where coaching can flourish
Develop a team of people who relish working with you
Enhance the effectiveness of others through learning.
Create more time for yourself through efficient delegation
The techniques of coaching are now vital tools for anyone who wants to get the best out of their team – and themselves. This is the first book which, in a highly entertaining and practical way, shows how to go about it.
“Practical, readable and relevant”
ARCHIE NORMAN, 'Chairman, Asda Group plc'
“An easy to read, informative book”
MANAGEMENT CONSULTANCY
But I do know that people don't necessarily respond like machines just because you push the right buttons, and (from bitter experience) people don't necessarily handle even the most skilful and careful encouragement and intervention, in the appreciative way they are supposed to do! This book makes it look so easy..... just change your approach and the world will run like a well-oiled machine.
Also, I had hoped we had got beyond categorising people as ISTJs, ENFPs etc... deal with people as people, for crying out loud, don't fit them in boxes just to make yourself feel more comfortable. It doesn't get you very far.
I'm thinking that many people would feel a bit patronised by being instructed to read this, while those who need to learn its lessons would never be convinced to read it anyway. But fundamentally it talks sense, so it gets _some_ stars from me.
In the Tao of Coaching, Max Landsberg illustrates his points through the story of Alex who in the beginning wonders whether he will be elected to the Board of Directors and why it took a year longer than he expected to be promoted to a senior management position and how Alex in the beginning uses the stick rather than the carrot as his management philosophy. Gradually we follow Alex as he develops from an autocratic manager into a coaching leader and as he experiences the power of asking questions rather than giving orders.
Interspersed between the selected episodes of Alex's life, Max Landsberg introduces some basic coaching techniques and provides several valuable tools for self-assessment.
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