A Manager's Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best From Your Employees

by Anne Loehr, Brian Emerson

To stay on top, companies need to do more than just tread water--they need to grow. And that means that their employees need to develop and improve their skills at the same pace. More than ever, managers are being encouraged to improve employee performance through effective coaching, but so few of them have the time--or the knowledge--it takes to do it successfully. Brian Emerson and Ann Loehr have spent years showing some of the country's top companies how to develop their most promising employees. Now in this helpful manual they guide managers through every step of the coaching process, from problem solving to developing accountability. Readers will discover:



the top 10 tips every manager should know before he starts to coach - how to handle difficult conversations, conflicting priorities, and problem team members - how to hold follow-up meetings after goals and priorities have been set - sample questions they can adapt to various situations - examples of common problems and how they can use coaching to address them.



Clear, practical and straightforward, this is an invaluable tool that will help all leaders coach employees, colleagues, and themselves to excellence.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Management, Reference, Nonfiction

240 pages, Paperback

First published April 2, 2008

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely dull writing. But this book really is a reference for your coaching and as such is laid out in such a way that as a tool for coaching it would be invaluable and quite ingenious.

Loads of things in the book are repeated which appears to be for ease as you coach, rather than for ease as you read from start to finish.

The actual content of the book is quite basic and seems to be common sense. But in practise usually isn't how people coach others. So actually extremely good for what would be useful for managers/ companies/ workers. And extremely good layout for quick and easy reference.

One major thing that annoyed me is the crackberry that is referred to throughout the book. I assume they are meaning blackberry and are making a snide remark. Once would be funny. But with every mention if this as crackberry i was like **rolls eyes** give it up. Its not funny. Plus why pick at this type of technology and not the other types mentioned.

[Randy Cook · Rating 3 out of 5]

‘A Manager’s Guide to Coaching’ is a book I had to read for a leadership course. I found some of the items in the beginning of the book very interesting. The defining of ‘coaching’ and how to effectively do it. I thought the success equation described by Brian Emersno and Anne Loehr to be very helpful. The three components that make up the level of success, atitude, aptitude, and available resources was a great way to look at a team members problem. Determining that the issue was attitude, the team member is in need of coaching. Any tool to help identify when a person needs coaching is crucial.

The next chapters were less helpful for me. Their ‘WIN - BIG’ motto, were not as helpful. I gave the book a little lower rating, base on what motto provided.

[Jessica Walsh-Frazier · Rating 4 out of 5]

I recommend this book for any manager or leader. The authors provide practical tools and questions that can be used to empower and support team members to reach their fullest potential.

[E · Rating 5 out of 5]

Savvy manual teaches managers how to coach

This tremendously useful book by two seasoned executive coaches, Anne Loehr and Brian Emerson, expertly explains what coaching is, how it functions and how managers can learn to put it to work to improve employees’ productivity and morale. Although every member of your staff is surely pumping hard to stay employed, get ahead and do well, many people may be unaware of attitudes or behaviors that are holding them back or jeopardizing their careers. That’s where a good coach plays a crucial role. The authors delve into coaching’s methods, explain its benefits, and offer thoughtful instructions and examples. The last third of the book is devoted to specific questions to ask while coaching. How you’ll react to the writing style, which is generally clear and serviceable, depends on if you think that “coachee” is a real word and that “everyone does their work” is good enough on the grammar front. Either way, getAbstract heartily recommends this straightforward, practical book to managers who want to be productive coaches.

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[Sue Blanchard · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the first book I read on coaching employees. It teaches managers to help employees solve their own work problems by becoming solution-focused.