Coach!: The Crucial, Deceptively Simple Leadership Skill For Breakaway Performance

by Andrew Neitlich

Coach! shows you why coaching is one of the fastest-growing professions in the business world today. Leaders and managers use coaching to develop people, solve pressing challenges, and strengthen their organizations. Coaching is an efficient, high-impact process that helps people improve results and advance their careers. People who receive coaching are more loyal to their organizations, develop stronger relationships, improve teamwork, and increase productivity.Coaching has had a profound impact on my life. The best managers in my career were generous enough to be coaches as well as managers. They used coaching as a tool to help me reach new levels of success. By sitting down with me and asking probing questions, they helped me come up with my own observations, insights, and new ways of approaching problems. They gave me the capacity and confidence to advance my career and also to lead others, but these managers didn’t just coach. They also mentored me, taught me, and, when required, directed me. I remember most the coaching conversations because they left me with lessons that are now part of who I am and have given rise to this book.

Kindle Edition

Published June 30, 2016

Reviews

[Stefanie Puckett · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was on my reading list for my executive coach education with Andrew. The book is - like the education - very tool focused. It is practical, full of examples and stories of what worked in coaching. I personally like it, since - as a psychologist - I have the theoretical background and needed insights and tools for the executive population.

[Alessandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

A refresher on coaching basics. The second half of the book has a collection of work specific coaching scenarios and approaches that serve as a great reference.