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Patricia K. Cross
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CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE ON-LINE Eric Parsloe, Monika Wray
Synopsis This text focuses on two key techniques for managers today: coaching and mentoring. In all types of organization, whether public or private sector, authoritarian styles of management are giving way to the use of managerial techniques that help staff to learn by the use of guidance and example. In a practical style the author helps readers to develop skills and build confidence in coaching and mentoring with the help of checklists, examples and supporting theory.

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Dennis Kinlaw
Synopsis Coaching is an activity that has changed: teams have become increasingly common, and more individuals now assume leadership roles. This work has been updated to reflect these changes. Participant materials include "Self" and "Observer" versions of the Coaching Skills Inventory.

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Synopsis This edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work, into goal-setting, and a spiritual approach to coaching, together with a final section on "Coaching the Organizations' Culture". Adopted by many of the world's major corporations, this work also argues for using questions, rather than instructions and commands, and following the GROW sequence - Goals, Reality, Options, Will - to generate prompt action and peak performance. It explores the dynamics of team development and it positions coaching as the essential team leadership skill.

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Synopsis This guide draws out the distinctions between coaching, counselling and mentoring, and demonstrates the steps employers should take to develop coaching capability. In particular, the book examines in detail: how, when and where coaching should take place; the core skills - active listening, questioning, building trust remaining objective; common fears and other barriers to effective coaching; coaching to promote competence creativity, customer satisfaction and competitive advantage; and how Brooke Bond Foods, Motorola, the Rover Group and others used coaching to achieve results.

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David A. Kolb
Synopsis Central to this book is the question 'What is learning?'. The author addresses this question on a psychological, philosophical, and sociological level.

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Synopsis This text provides some basic definitions and assumptions concerning one-to-one training before going on to give an analysis of the preparation that goes into a one-to-one training session, which includes objectives, strategy and tactics. It suggests a model for one-to-one training.

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Angus McLeod
Synopsis This title deserves to sit - hopefully well-thumbed - alongside the very limited number of internationally respected books on coaching.
The Voice of NLP - David Hoad, Kingsmore Consultancy

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Synopsis This second edition of the thriller-style story of Alex Rogo's fight to save his plant has an extra 10 chapters which bring the story forward to describe Alex's transition from Plant Manager to Divisional Manager. It incorporates the business principles of the author's Theory of Constraints (TOC).

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Eric Parsloe
Synopsis A description of the principles of coaching and mentoring, seeking to enable the reader to assess and develop their ability to improve the performance of others. It addresses: the key skills and appropriate coaching styles; conducting effective feedback and progress reviews; establishing your own competence through a series of simple self-assessments; putting learning theories into practice; drawing up individual "learning contracts"; using mentoring to encourage and support learning; and designing successful development programmes.