Learning to Coach: For Personal and Professional Development - Softcover

Stevens, Nicola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 184528271X ISBN 13: 9781845282714

Publisher: How To Books, 2008

Synopsis

This book is a straightforward guide for would-be coaches, for those already working in the professional development arena, and for any one using coaching skills in their life. It highlights the essential coaching skills and qualities, how they are employed in given situations and what makes the coaching process successful, valuable and worthwhile. Written in simple, straightforward fashion and illustrated with case histories, this book will build coaching relationships that help realise the full potential of individuals and organisations.The coaching process and the three step coaching model helps in building the coaching relationship and managing client's expectations. It shows how to prepare and run an organisational coaching programme. It also helps in setting up a mentoring programme for sustainable professional development. It offers five easy steps to building a sustainable and profitable coaching business. Drawing on her background in educational development and psychology, Nicola Stevens works with individuals and with international publicly quoted companies, NGOs, charities and organizations to solve paradoxes of leadership and management. Her expertise includes issues of corporate governance; boardroom dynamics; knowledge interaction at all levels; and, planned and unplanned change.


Contents: List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What is coaching?; 1. Preparing to be an effective coach; 2. Building the coaching relationship and managing client's expectations; 3. Creating the foundation of the coaching relationship; 4. The coaching process; 5. Third party or sponsored coaching programmes; 6. Setting yourself up as a coach; Resources; Glossary; Bibliography and further reading; Index.

About this title

About the Author

Nicola Stevens never envisaged that her initial professional experience of child development and psychology would form the basis for a second career working with organisations to resolve paradoxes of leadership management. In 1991 Nicola took a career break to fulfil a desire to study a History of Art degree, specialising in drawing and printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, London. Her dissertation focused on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century business models in portraiture, which led to her discovery of the van Aken brothers and subsequent obsession to uncover their story.

Returning to work in 2000, Nicola started her own company to offer facilitation and executive coaching to enhance twenty-first-century workplace relationships. She has lectured widely on topics such as investor behaviour and the human element of commerce and industry. She is also part of an ongoing consultation group for ENTO, to review UK education and practice standards in coaching and mentoring. Nicola has written a number of business books, including Learning to Coach, Mentoring: a Powerful Tool for Women, Learn to Coach and Making Management Simple.

Edition details

• Publisher: How To Books
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184528271X
• ISBN 13: 9781845282714
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210