Book Description
Coaching is for everyone! In this all-new edition of his best-selling package, Dennis Kinlaw gives you the insight you need to improve performance by empowering your colleagues. In today's employee-centered organizations, the opportunities for leadership no longer rest with managers and supervisors alone--everyone needs to be a coach! With Kinlaw's help, you can teach people in all types of organizations to: Build commitment to tasks Encourage successful project completion Enhance job satisfaction . . . and much more!
From the Inside Flap
Coaching is for everyone! In this all-new edition of his best-selling package, Dennis Kinlaw gives you the insight you need to improve performance by empowering your colleagues. In today's employee-centered organizations, the opportunities for leadership no longer rest with managers and supervisors alone-everyone needs to be a coach! With Kinlaw's help, you will teach people in all types of organizations toBuild commitment to tasks Encourage successful project completion Enhance job satisfaction . . . and much more! Trainer's Guide The Trainer's Guide gives you the tools you need to design and present a workshop based on the new edition of Kinlaw's best-selling book, Coaching for Commitment. This guide will give you the specific guidance you need to Set up and debrief activities Use videotaped behavior models Develop interactive presentations Conduct one-, two-, three-, or four-day training programs Plan workshop logistical support . . . and much more!Participant WorkbooksYour participants will use the two participant workbooks to develop the skills essential to coaching success. The four modules in the Coaching for Commitment workshop are split between two workbooks: Module One introduces them to the Coaching for Commitment concept; Module Two shows them how to better respond to the needs of their co-workers through counseling, mentoring, and tutoring conversations; Module Three shows your participants how to use coaching interactions to challenge coworkers to improve performance or take on more responsibility; and Module Four teaches your participants the special skills they'll need to coach teams effectively. Coaching Skills Inventory (CSI): Self and Observer The Coaching Skills Inventory (CSI): Self enables your participants to gauge their coaching performance. When they use the CSI Self in conjunction with Observer instruments, they'll get a comprehensive 360-degree view of their coaching skills. With the help of
Coaching for Commitment, Problem-Solving Skills Questionnaire: Interpersonal Strategies for Obtaining Superior Performance from Individuals and Teams: Problem-Solving Skills Questionnaire FROM THE PUBLISHER
In today's workplace, everyone can be a coach. Kinlaw shows you how you can use coaching to build commitment among your colleagues. Committed employees have a clear understanding of core values and performance goals, feel encouraged to exercise influence, possess the competencies required to perform their tasks, and sense that their performance is appreciated. Commitment is key to maximum performance. With Kinlaw's help, you will increase commitment across your organization.
FROM THE CRITICS
Booknews
In his 1991 study, , this organizational consultant found that leaders perceived as good coaches characterize superior teams. Not just for leaders, this edition (first, 1989) adds new examples and material on team coaching and self-development for all interested in coaching as a performance improvement strategy. Lacks references and an index. A companion training package is available. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)