Developing Coaching Skills: A Concise Introduction
Learn how to coach effectively—and help others unlock their potential!
Do you plan to become a professional coach? Do you want to enhance your coaching skills to become a better coach or leader? Or do you just want to know more about how coaching works to help improve the lives of others?
With this concise coaching textbook, you will quickly learn the main principles and tools of executive coaching and life coaching.
KEY FEATURES
- A compact yet comprehensive overview of how coaching works
- Over 200 powerful coaching questions that you can apply right away
- Master all phases of the coaching process
- Conduct effective coaching conversations in a goal- and solution-oriented way
- Develop essential coaching skills (e.g. questioning, active listening, and goal-setting skills, giving constructive feedback, coaching for performance, dealing with emotions, and supporting behavior change)
- Tried and tested coaching tools
- Best-practice insights into how experienced coaches work
- Practical coaching exercises for developing your own coaching skills
- Free bonus learning materials on the companion website (get access here)
Developing Coaching Skills is an essential reading for aspiring and practicing coaches, as well as for leaders and students of coaching.
Learn what effective coaching really means, make coaching a habit, and bring out the best of other people!
BOOK DETAILS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Dietmar Sternad teaches coaching skills in a master’s program for graduate students. He is an award-winning management professor with extensive experience as a CEO of media companies as well as in executive education, coaching, and consulting. Dietmar has published numerous research articles, case studies, and textbooks (including “Effective Management: Developing Yourself, Others and Organizations,” published by Macmillan International Higher Education).
The following bonus learning materials for smart learners are available for the book Developing Coaching Skills:
- Mindmaps that provide a succinct, visual ‘big picture’ overview of the key concepts in each chapter.
- Links to videos related to selected topics in the book.
- Interactive flashcards for a quick revision of the key concepts in each chapter.
Click on this link to get access to the bonus learning materials (freely available for all smart learners).
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