Motivational Interviewing for Managers: The Evidence-Based Guide to Coaching Conversations That Transform Employee Performance and Engagement (Paperback or Softback)
Language: English
Published by Carepoint Publishing 3/14/2026, 2026
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- Title
- Motivational Interviewing for Managers: The Evidence-Based Guide to Coaching Conversations That Transform Employee Performance and Engagement (Paperback or Softback)
- Author
- Cox, Peter Irvin
- Publisher
- Carepoint Publishing 3/14/2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Book Type
- Book
- Binding
- Paperback or Softback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 176459343X
- ISBN 13
- 9781764593434
- Item weight
- 1.45 pounds
Stop Managing Through Threats. Start Leading Through Conversation.
Traditional management relies on authority, pressure, and consequences to drive performance. You tell employees what needs to change, set deadlines, and hope compliance follows. Sometimes it works. Often it creates resentment, defensiveness, and minimal effort. Your team does exactly what's required and nothing more. Engagement flatlines. Innovation disappears. You're trapped in a cycle of directing, monitoring, and correcting that exhausts everyone involved.
The Problem With Command-and-Control Leadership
When you mandate change, you get surface compliance without genuine commitment. Employees nod in meetings, agree to action plans, then return to old patterns the moment you stop watching. Performance conversations become confrontations. Feedback triggers defensiveness. One-on-ones feel like interrogations rather than collaborations. You work harder than your team members to solve their problems, and the dysfunction continues.
A Proven Alternative From Clinical Psychology
Motivational interviewing transformed addiction treatment by replacing confrontation with collaboration. Instead of telling people what they must do, practitioners learned to evoke internal motivation through strategic conversation. The approach produces measurable behavior change across populations resistant to traditional methods. These same principles apply to management. This comprehensive training textbook adapts motivational interviewing specifically for workplace leadership, providing systematic frameworks for coaching conversations that improve performance without coercion.
Master Core Skills Through Structured Practice
OARS techniques (open questions, affirmations, reflections, summaries) replace directive commands with collaborative exploration. Learn to recognize change talk, honor ambivalence, and evoke commitment through Partnership, Acceptance, Compassion, and Evocation. Work through the four MI processes (engaging, focusing, evoking, planning) with detailed case studies showing real workplace applications. Practice handling performance feedback, difficult conversations, career development, wellbeing discussions, and change management through evidence-based methods.
From Technique to Leadership Philosophy
Beyond basic skills, develop cultural adaptation strategies for diverse teams, recognize when directive approaches are necessary, manage the emotional labor of empathetic leadership, and build deliberate practice systems for continuous improvement. Each chapter includes memorable frameworks, apply-this-now sections with immediate implementation steps, troubleshooting guidance for common challenges, and comprehensive research citations supporting every major concept.
Real Conversations. Measurable Results.
Twenty-three chapters cover foundations, core techniques, MI processes across all major management contexts, advanced applications including cultural considerations and practitioner self-care, and mastery development with feedback systems and practice communities. Appendices provide quick reference guides, complete conversation scripts, practice worksheets, and resources for continued learning. Transform your leadership approach from compliance-focused to commitment-driven through coaching conversations that respect autonomy while maintaining accountability.
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