Manager’s Guide to Effective Coaching, 2nd ed. (book)

Preorder on Amazon (releasing 10/2/11)

Boost productivity by making the switch from ‘boss’ to Coach! Working with employees–not over them–is the best way to encourage top performance in business today. “Manager’s Guide to Effective Coaching” gives you proven techniques for ensuring that all your people understand their roles and responsibilities, are highly engaged with their work, and perform at their highest capabilities. Marshall J. Cook is professor emeritus, Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of more than 30 business books. Laura Poole is an Associate Certified Coach (ACC), credentialed by the International Coach Federation. She founded her own coaching practice, Archer Coaching.

Techniques to become a coach, not just a boss and maximize each employee’s productivity.

Effective Coaching explains how to apply sound coaching methods in the workplace, encouraging top performance by working with your employees, instead of over them. From eliminating confusion by asking the right questions, to always making sure that employees and team leaders understand their roles and responsibilities, this highly focused guidebook will show you how to:

  • Understand the characteristics of an effective coach and apply them in the workplace
  • Quickly achieve the cooperation you need in a disciplined, nonthreatening atmosphere
  • Instinctively use effective problem-solving strategies in every situation

You know your company needs its employees. Make sure they know that. Management strategies and techniques in Effective Coaching will help you dramatically improve workplace performance and attitude both yours and your staff’s and maximize the measurable value received from each employee.

 

The Overwhelmed Woman: Reaching for Life Balance (audio recording and PDF)

In January 2011, I gave a teleseminar for FemCentral about life balance for busy women. I included broad ideas and visions of life balance, prompts to begin imagining what balance means to you, and some powerful tools to help you work toward the balance you seek. The recording has several examples of how to use the tools, and how they might result in awareness and better balance.

Cost: $27 for recording and PDF download.