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What's Better Today? How to Grow and Learn into the Leader You Can Be
Imagine that you are stressed out, overworked, overly pressured and don’t get the recognition you deserve. This may be so close to reality that you won’t find it hard to imagine! You want to grow in your career, but trapped by your current lifestyle and there’s a genuine fear that you may be close to burning out. One day, a friend mentions that she has been helped by a coach and suggests that you do the same. At first, you resist. You've seen the hundreds of articles and adverts promising a silver bullet solution to organise your life, reach your dreams, orchestrate your career and get on top of your life.
So let’s get this out of the way now: There are no silver bullets; no quick and easy solutions; it will not happen overnight.
There are times in life and work when we would benefit from the experience, wisdom and knowledge of people who have been in similar situations. If you are looking for one such person, then you are looking for a coach. But how do you make sure that you get the most out of it?
What’s Better Today? How to Grow and Learn into the Leader You Can Be” helps and guides you in getting the most our of your own coaching because, for most people, being coached is a new experience.
In Part One, “Starting Out” – you will learn if you are ready to be coached, and if so, what sort of coaching will work best for you right now and thus how you can go about choosing someone to work with.
In Part Two, “Grow and Learn” – you’ll learn how to get the very most you can out of your coaching. I've put together a structured framework with templates that you can use to both shortcut your coaching and get the results you want as quickly as you want.
In Part Three, I share about “Wrapping Up” your coaching effectively so that you, and your coach, continue to learn from the experience.
In fact, by using the templates and guidance in this book, you will be coaching yourself.
So let’s get this out of the way now: There are no silver bullets; no quick and easy solutions; it will not happen overnight.
There are times in life and work when we would benefit from the experience, wisdom and knowledge of people who have been in similar situations. If you are looking for one such person, then you are looking for a coach. But how do you make sure that you get the most out of it?
What’s Better Today? How to Grow and Learn into the Leader You Can Be” helps and guides you in getting the most our of your own coaching because, for most people, being coached is a new experience.
In Part One, “Starting Out” – you will learn if you are ready to be coached, and if so, what sort of coaching will work best for you right now and thus how you can go about choosing someone to work with.
In Part Two, “Grow and Learn” – you’ll learn how to get the very most you can out of your coaching. I've put together a structured framework with templates that you can use to both shortcut your coaching and get the results you want as quickly as you want.
In Part Three, I share about “Wrapping Up” your coaching effectively so that you, and your coach, continue to learn from the experience.
In fact, by using the templates and guidance in this book, you will be coaching yourself.
166 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 16, 2013
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About the author
John Kenworthy
2 books9 followersI am a Professional Leadership Caddy for Leaders who want to achieve greater success in your career, business and life.
I enable and support you with the right tools and techniques at the right time so that you can align your skills, mindset and behaviour to realize your goals and dreams.
I use the approach that works best for you whether as coach, mentor, teacher, trainer, expert or shepherd so that you are truly empowered.
See my website at www.celsim.com for more details
"What's better today?"
This is my mantra. Every day I ask myself and everyone I meet. And it sums up my approach to leadership coaching and mentoring. It's also the tile of my bestselling leadership book "What's Better Today? How to Grow and Learn into the Leader You Can Be".
My mission is to help you achieve positive change enabling you to realize personal success in business, career and life.
I enable and support you with the right tools and techniques at the right time so that you can align your skills, mindset and behaviour to realize your goals and dreams.
I use the approach that works best for you whether as coach, mentor, teacher, trainer, expert or shepherd so that you are truly empowered.
See my website at www.celsim.com for more details
"What's better today?"
This is my mantra. Every day I ask myself and everyone I meet. And it sums up my approach to leadership coaching and mentoring. It's also the tile of my bestselling leadership book "What's Better Today? How to Grow and Learn into the Leader You Can Be".
My mission is to help you achieve positive change enabling you to realize personal success in business, career and life.
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September 27, 2013
Great book by John Kenworthy. Easy to ready for leaders who are time-squeezed and orientates you towards positive thinking
June 11, 2013
I wrote this book as a practical field guide for two main reasons:
Because there's a huge number of books out there for developing coaches, but nothing for being a coachee, and nothing that helps coachee's get the most our of their coaching.
80% of my clients in their first coaching season includes these templates and so I wanted to create a resource for them.
A lot of development literature talks about the role and skills of the coaches and mentors. Much less is written from the coachee's or mentee's standpoint. Being a good coachee or mentee though is critical in order to make the most out of the relationship; to be focused on the objectives and to have realistic expectations. This guide attempts to bridge the gap and to provide useful guidelines for anyone preparing for a developmental relationship, whether formal or informal.
I hope that you find this book and associated template useful and look forward to your feedback and review.
Because there's a huge number of books out there for developing coaches, but nothing for being a coachee, and nothing that helps coachee's get the most our of their coaching.
80% of my clients in their first coaching season includes these templates and so I wanted to create a resource for them.
A lot of development literature talks about the role and skills of the coaches and mentors. Much less is written from the coachee's or mentee's standpoint. Being a good coachee or mentee though is critical in order to make the most out of the relationship; to be focused on the objectives and to have realistic expectations. This guide attempts to bridge the gap and to provide useful guidelines for anyone preparing for a developmental relationship, whether formal or informal.
I hope that you find this book and associated template useful and look forward to your feedback and review.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews