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Best Practice in Performance Coaching
Performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges, and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps to create a work/life balance. Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for anyone thinking of becoming or hiring a coach -- private or corporate -- and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the "what" and "how" of performance coaching, it covers all topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship. There is extensive guidance on coaching techniques, models, and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions. Complete with worksheets, exercises, evaluations, and international case studies, this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.
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First published January 9, 2007
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About the author
Carol Wilson
3 books1 followerCarol Wilson is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership & Management, the Association for Coaching, and the Professional Speaking Association, is on the Global Advisory Panel at the Association for Coaching and is a Trustee to the non-profit MOE Foundation, where she designs coaching programmes for underprivileged young people and the African Prisons Project.
A multi cultural expert, Carol has designed coaching and leadership programmes all over the world for organisations including IKEA, Philip Morris, the BBC, Hilti and NCR, and manages a team of multi-lingual trainers. She has won and been nominated for several awards for coaching and writing; she authored “Performance Coaching, A Complete Guide to Best Practice Coaching and Training” featuring Forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson; she has contributed to 6 books and published over 50 articles.
Carol experienced the value of a coaching culture at first hand during a decade working at board level with Sir Richard Branson at Virgin. Later she held board level positions with Island Records, Warner Brothers and Polygram. During this time she signed and developed many famous artists including Sting, The Buzzcocks, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Martha and the Muffins. Since entering the coaching field in 2000 she has studied with thought leaders including Nancy Kline and Tim Gallwey, and collaborated with Sir John Whitmore David Grove.
Carol is a keynote speaker at conferences worldwide including The HR Summit Budapest, the Asian Emerging Leaders Summit Hong Kong, Guts for Change Mumbai, Catalyst Australia, HRD London, and the China Executive Coaching Conference Shanghai, and can be seen on: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBdL8...
www.coachingcultureatwork.com
A multi cultural expert, Carol has designed coaching and leadership programmes all over the world for organisations including IKEA, Philip Morris, the BBC, Hilti and NCR, and manages a team of multi-lingual trainers. She has won and been nominated for several awards for coaching and writing; she authored “Performance Coaching, A Complete Guide to Best Practice Coaching and Training” featuring Forewords by Sir John Whitmore and Sir Richard Branson; she has contributed to 6 books and published over 50 articles.
Carol experienced the value of a coaching culture at first hand during a decade working at board level with Sir Richard Branson at Virgin. Later she held board level positions with Island Records, Warner Brothers and Polygram. During this time she signed and developed many famous artists including Sting, The Buzzcocks, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark and Martha and the Muffins. Since entering the coaching field in 2000 she has studied with thought leaders including Nancy Kline and Tim Gallwey, and collaborated with Sir John Whitmore David Grove.
Carol is a keynote speaker at conferences worldwide including The HR Summit Budapest, the Asian Emerging Leaders Summit Hong Kong, Guts for Change Mumbai, Catalyst Australia, HRD London, and the China Executive Coaching Conference Shanghai, and can be seen on: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBdL8...
www.coachingcultureatwork.com
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June 14, 2020
An absolutely super book about coaching. It covers briefly different models in addition to specifying the "how" of coaching. The histories section is enlightening, especially the section on moral dilemmas in coaching.
Must read for coaches, HR professionals and senior managers.
Must read for coaches, HR professionals and senior managers.
May 27, 2021
Bite-sized chapters thoroughly covering all aspects of coaching. How to embed a coaching culture, the skills and mindset of a coach, and many continuing development topics.
July 25, 2015
Incredible step by step guide to coaching for result with insightful materials and guide
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