Coaching Essentials for Managers: The Tools You Need to Ignite Greatness in Each Employee - Softcover

Canaday, Sara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1264573588 ISBN 13: 9781264573585

Publisher: McGraw Hill, 2022

Synopsis

"This book is the ultimate guide to retaining and engaging your employees. Readers will walk away feeling fully prepared to coach and inspire their employees to do their best and most engaged work."

―Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers 

Discover how developing your coaching skills can help unleash your leadership superpower

Helping employees hit their goals and feel engaged at work has always been a rewarding part of a manager's job. But in today's hybrid world, helping your team overcome challenges and feel fully seen, heard, and appreciated is more than simply a "nice to have" skill. Developing a robust, modern approach to coaching can help unlock your leadership "superpower."

In Coaching Essentials for Managers, leadership development expert Sara Canaday presents a solid business case for sharpening these skills by explaining the tangible, proven benefits for employees, managers, and their organizations, and reveals that coaching―like many other management skills―is one you can hone and perfect with the right information and tools. Whether you're just starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices, you'll find what you need here, in three easy-to-digest parts:

• Part I: The Essentials includes coaching fundamentals, frameworks, attributes of a great coach, a knowledge check and coaching self-assessment
•  Part II: The Essentials Applied covers real-world challenges in performance coaching and developmental coaching, common obstacles coaches face, and how to coach in the virtual environment
• Part III: Beyond the Essentials explores effective questions, powerful phrases, coaching "do's and don'ts" and helpful tools and resources
• PLUS: A Coaching Framework Guide, Coaching Preparation Worksheet, and Coaching Development Plan

Filled with self-assessments, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises to help reinforce what you've learned, Coaching Essentials for Managers will help you walk away feeling fully prepared to coach your employees to do their best, most engaged work―a leadership "superpower" that now, more than ever, is needed in today's rapidly evolving workplace.

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About the Author

Sara Canaday is a recognized expert in leadership development with bottom-line impact, helping companies’ leaders and high potentials integrate the leadership skills that research proves are critical for corporations to succeed. Her corporate clients include Allstate, Johnson & Johnson, Charles Schwab, Edward Jones, Dell, Lockheed Martin, Starbucks and more. As a keynote speaker, award-winning author and executive coach, Sara propels individuals from light bulb-moment insights to strategic change, helping them identify barriers that prevent them from taking their careers―and their companies―to the next level.

From the Back Cover

"Sara Canaday’s Coaching Essentials for Managers is the ultimate guide to retaining and engaging your employees. It’s packed with valuable information, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises that reinforce learning. Readers will walk away feeling fully prepared to coach and inspire their employees to do their best and most engaged work."
—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There

"In Coaching Essentials for Managers, Sara Canaday demystifies the coaching process and makes it accessible for any manager who wants to play a significant role in employees’ growth and development. She provides a valuable start-to-finish blueprint for effective coaching with strategies that are easy to understand and simple to apply. What’s unique about this book is that she doesn’t just tell you how to be a successful workplace coach, she shows you exactly what that looks like through case studies and dialogue for a more powerful impact. This book should be required reading for every manager who wants to develop a high-performing team and retain top talent."
—Keith Ferrazzi, American entrepreneur, global thought leader, and chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight

"As a content strategist and former business book editor, my aim is to provide learners with skills they can use to make their jobs easier, more manageable, and increasingly rewarding. Coaching Essentials for Managers from Sara Canaday does just that! In this book, Sara highlights valuable insights from her experience as a corporate executive and leadership educator that can help managers transform their teams through the power of coaching. The practical tips and helpful scenarios are exceptional resources. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in improving their coaching skills and increasing their impact."
—Susan R. Williams, senior content manager, business at LinkedIn Learning

"While companies are scrambling to retain their employees by offering stay-on bonuses and extended benefits, there is one thing leaders can do to give employees what they really want: a chance to learn and progress. Sara Canaday’s Coaching Essentials for Managers is the handbook for how to accomplish that. This uniquely compelling book provides readers with specific strategies and tools they can use to help inspire their employees to achieve their best and support their professional goals."
—Dr. Marcia Reynolds, author of Coach the Person, Not the Problem and The Discomfort Zone

"In Coaching Essentials for Managers, Sara provides leadership wisdom that packs a powerful punch. I’ve always taken pride in helping my employees reach their potential and fulfill their career aspirations and the strategies in this book have already helped me do just that. Sara has a unique way of transforming leadership principles and theories into actionable strategies, taking the reader from “why” to “how.” She also uses authentic examples and vignettes to drive home her key points with real impact. If you’re looking for the shortest path to coaching excellence, this book is for you."
—Jennifer Webb, director of marketing at Dell Technologies

"In a time and world where coaching is the missing link for leadership, culture, and engagement, Sara Canaday delivers the definitive solution in Coaching Essentials for Managers. Sara is right on the mark in stating that “coaching is a leadership superpower,” and I’d go so far to say that coaching is the leadership superpower. Organizations and leaders have lost their way when it comes to developing and growing their people. Thankfully, Sara offers us a light to help us find our way back as leaders and organizations, and that light comes in the form of Coaching Essentials for Managers."
—Jeff Nischwitz, chief impact officer at CoreX Legal, speaker, coach, and author of Snow Globe Leadership: Shaken Not Settled 

"As an executive coach, I appreciate the key strategies and principles in Sara’s book, Coaching Essentials for Managers. I’ve watched hundreds of leaders shy away from taking a more active approach to coaching because they were intimidated by the process or felt ill-equipped to do it effectively. This resource is what they need. If you are new to coaching or looking to strengthen your coaching skills as a manager, you will find this book enlightening, easy to follow, and full of actionable strategies you can apply immediately."
—Muriel Maignan Wilkins, cofounder of Paravis Partners and podcast host of HBR’s Coaching Real Leaders

Edition details

• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Publication date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1264573588
• ISBN 13: 9781264573585
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256