Solution-focused Coaching: Managing People in a Complex World - Softcover

Jane Greene; Anthony M Grant

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184304028X ISBN 13: 9781843040286

Publisher: Momentum, 2003

Synopsis

To be successful at work you have to be successful with people.  As stress takes an ever bigger toll on people, so the successful organisation is the one that enables its workforce to manage and even harness that stress into productivity and satisfaction. Balance, clear goals and responsibility become more and more important.
 The bookexamines the challenges that the furious pace of change in today’s world have brought and provides every manager with strategies to facilitate a successful, dynamic, creative, effective workforce. Backed by sound, up-to-the minute psychological theory this book is also highly practical and is packed with validated tools and techniques for enhancing life experience and work performance.  This book will equip the reader with usable, effective, proven techniques for improving, communication, collaboration and co-operation at work. It will teach the reader how to become a ‘manager coach’ and to lead themselves and their team with confidence.  

 

About this title

About the Author

Jane Greene is a distance and open learning consultant, writer and editor specialising in management training and life long learning. She holds a BA Hons in Philosophy and English from the University of Kent and an MSc in Intelligent Management Systems from South Bank University, London. Articles on her work in interactive learning have appeared in the press.

Anthony M Grant is a Coaching Psychologist, based in New South Wales, Australia. He holds a BA(Hons) in psychology from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Behavioural Science from Macquarie University, Sydney.  His research and practice has frequently been reported in the media .  He has received a number of awards for his work in psychology including the Australian Psychological Society Prize for Psychology (1997) and the University of Sydney Medal for Psychology.

From the Back Cover

No matter how good you are at your job, and how good your company is, unless you know how to get the best from your people, you might as well go home now. This is a direct, easy read, for smart busy managers that shows you how to become a highly effective coach as well as manager.

Edition details

• Publisher: Momentum
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184304028X
• ISBN 13: 9781843040286
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208