Best Practice in Performance Coaching

Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations offers coaching models, tools, techinques and case histories, and explains how to run a coaching practice. Preface by Richard Branson. Foreword by John Whitmore.

Performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps to create a work/life balance.

Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for anyone thinking of becoming or hiring a coach - whether private or corporate - and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of performance coaching, it covers all topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship. There is extensive guidance on coaching techniques, models and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions.

Complete with worksheets and exercises, evaluations and international case studies this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.

REVIEWS : BOOK DETAILS : CONTENTS INCLUDE :

Part One -

Fundamentals - The how, who, when and where of coaching for performance and good leadership.

What is coaching?;

Coaching techniques;

Coaching models;

Structure;

Training as a coach;

Running a professional coaching practice;

Coaching in organizations

Part Two -

Advanced coaching tools,

models and international case histories

Appendix I:Coaching tools

Appendix II: Case histories;

Appendix III: Awareness questions

Appendix IV: Worksheets;

Appendix V: Sample contracts

Appendix VI: Coaching evaluation

Appendix VII: References