Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders Coaches HR Professionals and Organizations - Hardcover

Carol Wilson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0749450827 ISBN 13: 9780749450823

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2007

Synopsis

Performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development 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 all topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship. There is extensive guidance on coaching techniques, 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.

About this title

About the Author

Carol Wilson is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management, the Association for Coaching, and the Professional Speaking Association. She is on the Global Advisory Panel at the Association for Coaching and a Trustee to the non-profit MOE Foundation, where she designs coaching programmes for underprivileged young people and the African Prisons Project.

A multicultural expert, Carol Wilson has designed coaching and leadership programmes all over the world for organisations including IKEA, Philip Morris, the BBC, Hilti and NCR. She has won and been nominated for several awards for coaching and writing. She is the author of Performance Coaching, A Complete Guide to Best Practice Coaching and Training featuring forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson; she has also contributed to 6 books and published over 50 articles.

Carol experienced the value of a coaching culture firsthand during a decade working at board level with Sir Richard Branson at Virgin. Later she held board-level positions with Island Records, Warner Brothers and Polygram. Since entering the coaching field in 2000 she has studied with thought leaders including Nancy Kline and Tim Gallwey, and collaborated with Sir John Whitmore David Grove.

She is a keynote speaker at conferences worldwide including The HR Summit Budapest, the Asian Emerging Leaders Summit Hong Kong, Guts for Change Mumbai, Catalyst Australia, HRD London, and the China Executive Coaching Conference Shanghai.

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Part One - Fundamentals - The how, who, when and where of coaching for performance and good leadership. What is coaching?; Coaching techniques; Coaching models; Structure; Training as a coach; Running a professional coaching practice; Coaching in organizations

Part Two - Advanced coaching tools, models and international case histories

Appendix I:Coaching tools

Appendix II: Case histories; Appendix III: Awareness questions

Appendix IV: Worksheets; Appendix V: Sample contracts

Appendix VI: Coaching evaluation

Appendix VII: References

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749450827
• ISBN 13: 9780749450823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 238