Adaptive Coaching: The Art and Practice of a Client-Centered Approach to Performance Improvement

by Terry R. Bacon, Laurie Voss

Rich in detail from the authors’ work with clients in Fortune 500 companies, Adaptive Coaching offers a unique client-centered focus on how people prefer to be coached. In this completely revised second edition, authors Bacon and Voss deliver the tools and techniques coaches need to identify clients’ real needs, negotiate expectations, understand and adapt to different coaching style preferences, manage the dialogue and help clients change. The authors identify eight distinct coaching styles—teacher, parent, manager, philosopher, facilitator, counselor, colleague, and mentor. They also include examples of coaching dialogue, and explore in detail the special challenges of coaching across cultures and generations, and of coaching women, minorities, and C-level executives.

Genres: Management

401 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 3, 2003

Reviews

[Kara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good handbook if you wanted to work in the field of coaching.