How to Be a Great Coach: 24 Lessons for Turning on the Productivity of Every Employee (Mighty Manager) - Hardcover

Cook, Marshall J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0071591362 ISBN 13: 9780071591362

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2008

Synopsis

Today's worker is empowered and intelligent, and no longer can you expect overbearing, high-pressure management tactics to improve performance. In the modern workplace, managers are discovering that they must work in partnership with their employees, providing them with the tools they need for success by first determining exactly what those tools are.

How to Be a Great Coach provides guidelines, best practices, and state-of-the-art approaches for working with, instead of against, your employees, boosting their motivation, performance, and productivity. This results-focused book examines 24 innovative and proven approaches for getting the best efforts from your employees by giving your best, and earning their respect by first learning how to:

• Solicit their opinions-and take them seriously
• Be willing to take the hit for your own mistakes
• Ask targeted questions and patiently await answers
• Communicate your willingness to hear complaints
• Foster independence, not subservience
• Explain your expectations clearly
• Always advocate for your employees

When your employees do well, you do well. Learn all about today's most effective coaching methods--what they are, how they work, and how you can use them to dramatically improve the performance of your employees--in the focused, hands-on leadership guideHow to Be a Great Coach.

About this title

About the Author

Marshall Cook is a professor in the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of nearly a dozen books, includingEffective Coaching and Time Management.

From the Back Cover

24 Lessons for Turning on the Productivity of Every Employee

The most effective supervisors are the ones who work with, not against, their employees. A boss needs to encourage employees to use their strengths and talents for the betterment of the organization, as well as their own careers. InHow to Be a Great Coach, you'll find proven methods and best practices for becoming a manager who uses motivation, not intimidation.

• Coach one-on-one
• Communicate effectively
• Solve problems--don't just point them out
• Empower your workers
• Ask good questions
• Be a stand-up boss

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0071591362
• ISBN 13: 9780071591362
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 102