Coaching to Solutions
A Manager's Toolkit for Performance Delivery
- 1st Edition - February 10, 2006
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- Author: Carole Pemberton
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 5 4 6 3 - 4
The book provides a tool kit for managers tasked with raising performance and sustaining motivation. Organisations are being judged by the way in which they accommodate the needs… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThe book provides a tool kit for managers tasked with raising performance and sustaining motivation. Organisations are being judged by the way in which they accommodate the needs of the individual in work and life-style terms. In this context, the ‘smart’ employer will not only be looking to develop policies that retain talent through recognising their work-life issues, they will be equipping their managers to manage that talent in ways which maximise the contribution that individual can make.
The text introduces managers to techniques largely drawn from Brief Therapy (De Shazer & Berg). Brief Therapy is used in the UK, but primarily by social workers, psychologists and counsellors. It's application to work settings is now growing. The attraction of a Solution Focussed approach to coaching is that it offers pragmatic tools that help managers structure helping conversations.
The book presents the principles of solution focussed thinking in a language that is readily understandable by managers, and shows how those principles can be applied to a range of issues which managers may find themselves facing as willing or enforced coaches. The book places coaching as an activity which can be done as part of the daily process of management.
The text introduces managers to techniques largely drawn from Brief Therapy (De Shazer & Berg). Brief Therapy is used in the UK, but primarily by social workers, psychologists and counsellors. It's application to work settings is now growing. The attraction of a Solution Focussed approach to coaching is that it offers pragmatic tools that help managers structure helping conversations.
The book presents the principles of solution focussed thinking in a language that is readily understandable by managers, and shows how those principles can be applied to a range of issues which managers may find themselves facing as willing or enforced coaches. The book places coaching as an activity which can be done as part of the daily process of management.
*Introduces managers to techniques drawn from Brief Therapy, based on the work of Steve de Shazer and Insoo Berg
*Applies techniques to particular issues that may be brought to a manager as a coaching issue
*Addresses how coaching can be encompassed within the daily demands of a manager once the principles and tools are understood
*Applies techniques to particular issues that may be brought to a manager as a coaching issue
*Addresses how coaching can be encompassed within the daily demands of a manager once the principles and tools are understood
HR professionals;Training Managers/Learning Officers; Line managers with people responsibilities; Corporate training consultants; Coaches; Secondary Audience: Executive Coaching courses, MBA courses with an HR focus.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Coaching – why all the attention now?; 2 The Coach in You; 3 Before You Assess Others Assess Yourself; 4 Getting STARTED; 5 Set Up; 6 Tangibles; 7 Assumptions; 8 Reality Bites; 9 Targeting; 10 Emergent Solutions; 11 Delivery; 12 Leadership and Coaching; Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: February 10, 2006
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- No. of pages: 256
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080454634
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Carole Pemberton
Affiliations and expertise
Founder of Career Matters, a coaching practice which offers careers coaching to managers. Previously with PA Consulting.