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1. |  By: Sarah Cook Publisher: IT Governance Ltd Publication Date: 27-JAN-2009 Insert Date: 11-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Coaching for High Performance
Benefit from this practical guide to improving your team's performance
Coaching helps people to define desired outcomes for themselves and encourages them to take responsibility for developing strategies and actions to achieve them. It's about helping people to learn rather than teaching them. By applying sound coaching skills within in the IT workplace, you can enhance the quality of your team's work, increase people's ability and confidence, and create a climate of high performance.
If you are an IT manager and work with IT professionals on a regular basis, Coaching for High...
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2. |  By: Laura Poole Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publication Date: 12-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 04-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
THE RIGHT PHRASE FOR EVERY SITUATION . . . EVERY TIMEPerfect Phrases for Coaching Employee Performance gives you the language to empower, engage, and develop your employees. Filled with hundreds of wordsand phrases you can use in virtually every coaching situation, this go-to guide provides everything you need for:Onboarding and trainingConducting performance reviewsSetting employee goalsCoaching high and low performersCreating powerful teamsBuilding strong relationships
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3. |  The Coaching for Leadership Case Study Workbook By: Laurence S. Lyons Publisher: Pfeiffer Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Coaching for Leadership Case Study Workbook
Based on the best-selling Coaching for Leadership (which contains an invaluable and timeless collection of thoughts and theory from some of the world's best thinkers) this workbook is filled with illustrative case studies, examples, exercises, and activities. It addresses matrix effects (what role the organization's structure influenced the outcome), personal dynamics (the psychology and logic about how the story evolved) and additional questions for coaching practice and questions for leaders. The workbook contains its own unique material related to Organizational Behavior, Organizational...
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4. |  Coaching for Leadership: Writings on Leadership from the World's Greatest Coaches, 3rd Edition By: Marshall Goldsmith; Laurence Lyons; Sarah McArthur Publisher: Pfeiffer Publication Date: 01-MAY-2012 Insert Date: 14-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Coaching for Leadership: Writings on Leadership from the World's Greatest Coaches, 3rd Edition
Today's coaches are challenged with the recurring task of weaving threads from several disciplines into a tapestry that is fit for purpose in helping their clients learn and succeed. In this sense, the coach has to become a discriminating eclectic, developing a keen sense of judgment to select which threads are best woven into the fabric and those that it would be better to simply throw away. Coaching for Leadership is intended to be a cherished companion in that learning journey presented by the world's greatest coaches, including: Marshall Goldsmith, Paul Hersey, Beverly Kay, Daivd...
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5. |  Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - A Leader in His Fields By: Craig Chappelow Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-DEC-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Dividends and Interest - A Leader in His Fields
The best coaches apply the leadership lessons from other parts of their life experiences to coaching.
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6. |  Leadership in Action: In Focus - Executive Coaching - A Winning Recipe for Working with a Coach By: Wayne Hart; Karen Kirkland Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-OCT-2002 Insert Date: 30-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: In Focus - Executive Coaching - A Winning Recipe for Working with a Coach
Executive coaching is all about change—often, developmental change. When you hire a coach, you set in motion a process for effecting that change.
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7. |  By: Philippe Bigot Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Le coaching orienté solution
PrésentationConstruire des solutions est d'un autre ordre que résoudre des problèmes. Tel est le postulat de base du "coaching orienté solution" (COS), un modèle novateur pour accompagner le changement chez l'individu.À partir de cas concrets, d'apports théoriques et méthodologiques, l'auteur explique en quoi le COS s'avère singulier avec, à la clé, des changements patents.Il développe en détail, de l'entretien préliminaire à la clôture du coaching, les moments clés de cette démarche afin que chaque acteur de l'accompagnement professionnel, novice ou déjà expérimenté, puisse la mettre en...
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8. |  Dictionnaire commenté du coaching By: Alain Cardon Publisher: Editions d'Organisation Publication Date: 07-JUL-2011 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Dictionnaire commenté du coaching
PrésentationAu-delà d'une excellente écoute, le métier de coach nécessite une expression verbale et des compétences linguistiques précises. En effet, certains mots pris dans le langage courant ou utilisés par le coach ne véhiculent pas le même sens. Afin de faciliter la communication entre le coach et le client, Alain Cardon liste et commente de manière inédite les 200 mots les plus utilisés par les professionnels.Plus qu'un simple dictionnaire, cet ouvrage donne les fondements théoriques de chacun des mots et les accompagne d'exemples d'utilisation, de conseils et de mises en garde...
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9. |  By: Ro Gorell Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Group Coaching Group Coaching is a practical guide to developing effective group coaching practice to develop and grow talent.Based on over 40 years of HR, consulting and coaching practical experience, it provides a framework of best practice supported by a range of tried and tested group exercises and tools.With tools and case studies throughout it will provide everything you need to run successful group coaching sessions effectively and develop group coaching as a way of liberating talent throughout any organisation....
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10. |  Diversity in Coaching, 2nd Edition By: Jonathan Passmore; Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-MAY-2013 Insert Date: 10-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Diversity in Coaching, 2nd Edition Diversity in Coaching explores the impact and implication of difference in coaching. The book looks at how coaches can respond to issues of gender, generational, cultural, national and racial difference. Understanding how diversity impacts upon coaching is a crucial element to coaching effectively in today's diverse society and can give coaches the edge when responding to their coachees need.
Written by an international team of coaching professionals, the book provides guidance on understanding diversity and how coaches can adapt coaching styles and techniques to meet individual needs, local...
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11. |  Leadership in Action: In Focus - Positive Coaching - Youth Sports Hold a Lesson for Leaders By: Roberta Vasko Kraus Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: In Focus - Positive Coaching - Youth Sports Hold a Lesson for Leaders
The next time your young athlete competes, manifest a positive attitude, enthusiasm, and love for the game as attributes of a true champion.
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12. |  Leadership in Action: Leader Coaches: Principles and Issues for In-House Development Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-JUN-2006 Insert Date: 03-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Leader Coaches: Principles and Issues for In-House Development
More and more leaders are taking on coaching responsibilities in their organizations themselves rather than relying solely on external coaches. But leaders who are considering such coaching need to understand a number of things. Here's a primer for today's aspiring leader coaches.
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13. |  Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations—Five Myths About Executive Coaching By: Douglas Riddle; Lindsey Zan; Daniel Kuzmycz Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership Publication Date: 01-DEC-2009 Insert Date: 25-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Leadership in Action: Issues and Observations—Five Myths About Executive Coaching
Today's organizational world is experiencing a rush of its own kind: the rush to use the powerful intervention of coaching. Coaching is booming, and the overwhelming perception is that it is doing so with success. However, in the absence of universal standards and credentials, the selection and engagement of coaches has been fraught with confusion, anxiety, and unhappiness.
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14. |  By: Liz Hall Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-APR-2013 Insert Date: 20-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mindful Coaching Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to the present moment, helping us become more aware of our thoughts and feelings so that instead of being overwhelmed by them, we're better able to manage them. Mindful Coaching is the complete resource to using mindfulness in coaching. It helps coaches work with clients on a range of issues including work-life balance; stress management; decision-making; coping with ambiguity; dealing with crises; employee engagement; heightening focus and clarity; communication; increasing presence; improved listening and more. It also helps them become more...
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15. |  By: Florence M. Stone Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 03-JAN-2007 Insert Date: 28-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 |
Coaching, counseling, and mentoring can dramatically improve employee productivity and satisfaction. But there’s a big difference between continuously encouraging employees to do their jobs well (coaching), attempting to fix poor performance (counseling), and helping top performers excel (mentoring). Unfortunately, most managers don’t truly understand how and when to do each. Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring provides helpful tools like self-assessments and real-life scenarios, and gives managers specific, practical guidance on using these techniques to improve the performance of...
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16. |  Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications By: Lee T. Ostrom; Cheryl Wilhelmsen Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 03-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Risk Assessment: Tools, Techniques, and Their Applications
All the tools needed to perform a thorough risk assessment—whether you're working in insurance, forensics, engineering, or public safety
Risk analysis is the method of analyzing the dangers to individuals, businesses, and government agencies posed by potential natural and man-made hazards. The central task of the risk assessor is predicting the success of a project. This includes isolating the entire spectrum of adverse events that can derail a project or threaten the health and safety of individuals, organizations, and the environment.
Designed as a practical, in-the-field toolkit,...
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17. |  By: David Clutterbuck Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 01-MAY-2007 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Coaching the Team at Work
Written by a leading consultant and author of nearly 50 books, Coaching the Team at Work bridges the gap between what is known about team learning and coaching and the practical experience of managers and team coaches. Dr. David Clutterbuck shows how team coaching can be made a sustainable, automatic process in any organization and how transformative the process can be.
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18. |  Solutions Focus, The: Making Coaching and Change S.I.M.P.L.E. By: Paul Z Jackson Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 01-FEB-2007 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Solutions Focus, The: Making Coaching and Change S.I.M.P.L.E.
When you need to discover what works in the workplace, The Solutions Focus: Making Coaching and Change SIMPLE offers a powerful yet subtle way to foster positive change. With this revolutionary and practical alternative to traditional problem solving, you can learn how to envision your desired future and move swiftly toward it. The Solutions Focus details the SIMPLE plan and a unique way of working that fosters customized and organization-specific solutions for every problem. Radically pragmatic and proven in many fields, this method goes to the heart of what works for people, teams and...
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19. |  Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate and Professional Differences By: Philippe Rosinski Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 01-APR-2003 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate and Professional Differences
Philippe Rosinski has woven coaching and intercultural communication together into a coherent and accessible whole in Coaching Across Cultures. The book is filled with intriguing examples from multinational companies and includes coaching tools with exercises that put into practice the cultural concepts presented.
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20. |  How to Coach Individuals, Teams, and Organizations to Master Transformational Change By: Stephen K. Hacker Publisher: Business Expert Press Publication Date: 15-MAR-2012 Insert Date: 09-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Coach Individuals, Teams, and Organizations to Master Transformational Change Transformational coaching by a person who has personally experienced transformation and has mastered a specific coaching methodology is a powerful catalyst for holistic change. The transformational coach can awaken individuals and groups to greater awareness and a sense of purpose that enables them to move through these barriers and access untapped sources of energy for breakthrough potential. This book offers a practical yet provocative approach and gives coaches, organizational and business leaders, HR executives, and other change agents a proven approach for creating transformative change...
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