Coaching for Performance: A Practical Guide to Gro Wing Your Own Skills (Pfeiffer & Company) - Softcover

Whitmore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0893842389 ISBN 13: 9780893842383

Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

Written by an expert coach, this book provides practical skills for coaching and invaluable insights into more effective communication. This clear, concise guide shows how to follow the GROW sequence--Goals, Reality, Options, Will--to generate prompt action and peak performance.

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Overall, the newly written sections on leadership for high performance and transformation through transpersonal coaching really stand out. They are up-to-date, relevant, and make a significant challenge to the reader's mindset. These pages offer interesting dimensions on models of psychosynthesis, emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence, and boundaries in coaching.--Overall, the newl

About the Author

Sir John Whitmore

Sir John Whitmore is the pioneer of coaching in the workplace and Co-Founder of Performance Consultants International, the market leader in coaching globally. He was the first to take coaching into organizations in the early 1980s and creator of the GROW model, the most used coaching model in the world. Honoured for his lifetime's work with the President's Award from the International Coach Federation, Sir John's global contribution to coaching and leadership has helped to drive organizational transformation. Through his books - most notably Coaching for Performance - workshops and speeches, he defined the principles of performance coaching and midwifed its birth from sporting excellence, transpersonal psychology, and emotional intelligence. Coaching for Performance is widely considered to be the bible of coaching and Sir John's vision, philosophy, and methodology has inspired millions of managers, leaders, and coaches across four decades to bring the best out of themselves and others. Sir John died in 2017, his extraordinary legacy is continued by his colleagues. The new edition of Coaching for Performance to publish in 2017 was completed before his death.

Performance Consultants International

Founded in the early 1980s by Sir John Whitmore, Performance Consultants' mission is to transform the relationship between organizations and employees. Their stance is simple: organizations are sitting on a great untapped reservoir of potential - that of their people. They partner with organizations globally on effective leadership development, coaching and culture transformation. Market leaders in their field, they invite organizations to improve performance through their leaders and thereby reap rewards for people, profit and planet. Their flagship development programme named after this book is Coaching for Performance, it is considered the industry gold-standard and delivered in over 40 countries and in 23 languages.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0893842389
• ISBN 13: 9780893842383
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English