Coaching for Commitment: Interpersonal Strategies for Obtaining Superior Performance from Individuals and Teams - Hardcover

Kinlaw, Dennis C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787939862 ISBN 13: 9780787939861

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1998

Synopsis

Coaching is for everyone! In this all-new edition of his best-selling package, Dennis Kinlaw gives you the insight you need to improve performance by empowering your colleagues. In today's employee-centered organizations, the opportunities for leadership no longer rest with managers and supervisors alone-everyone needs to be a coach! With Kinlaw's help, you can teach people in all types of organizations to: * Build commitment to tasks * Encourage successful project completion * Enhance job satisfaction ...and much more!

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About the Author

DENNIS C. KINLAW, Ed.D., received his doctorate in adult education from The George Washington University. He has master's degrees from Wesley Theological Seminary and Garrett Theological Seminary and a Bachelor of Science degree from Florida Southern College. He has taught graduate courses for The American University, The George Washington University, and Virginia Commonwealth University in management theory and practice, human behavior, group dynamics, interpersonal communication, organizational behavior, learning theory, human resource development, program planning and evaluation, and counseling of adults.For the past twenty years, Kinlaw has been a consultant to organizations and has conducted management training programs. His clients include The Aerospace Corporation, Bell Atlantic Corporation, the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, Livermore National Laboratory, Louisville Bank for Cooperatives, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters, NASA Kennedy Space Center, NASA Langley Research Center, the National Institutes of Health, the Health Care Finance Administration, and USBI Rocket Booster Corporation.

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Coaching is for everyone!In this all-new edition of his best-selling package, Dennis Kinlaw gives you the insight you need to improve performance by empowering your colleagues. In today's employee-centered organizations, the opportunities for leadership no longer rest with managers and supervisors alone-everyone needs to be a coach!With Kinlaw's help, you will teach people in all types of organizations to

• Build commitment to tasks
• Encourage successful project completion
• Enhance job satisfaction . . . and much more!

Trainer's Guide The Trainer's Guide gives you the tools you need to design and present a workshop based on the new edition of Kinlaw's best-selling book, Coaching for Commitment. This guide will give you the specific guidance you need to

• Set up and debrief activities
• Use videotaped behavior models
• Develop interactive presentations
• Conduct one-, two-, three-, or four-day training programs
• Plan workshop logistical support . . . and much more!

Participant WorkbooksYour participants will use the two participant workbooks to develop the skills essential to coaching success. The four modules in the Coaching for Commitment workshop are split between two workbooks: Module One introduces them to the Coaching for Commitment concept; Module Two shows them how to better respond to the needs of their co-workers through counseling, mentoring, and tutoring conversations; Module Three shows your participants how to use coaching interactions to challenge coworkers to improve performance or take on more responsibility; and Module Four teaches your participants the special skills they'll need to coach teams effectively.Coaching Skills Inventory (CSI): Self and ObserverThe Coaching Skills Inventory (CSI): Self enables your participants to gauge their coaching performance. When they use the CSI Self in conjunction with Observer instruments, they'll get a comprehensive 360-degree view of their coaching skills. With the help of

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787939862
• ISBN 13: 9780787939861
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 176