Coach your team

by Liz Hall

It has never been a more challenging time for managers and leaders to maintain a happy, healthy workforce. The pace of change and increasing uncertainty in most industries has resulted in a rapid increase in stress and anxiety in the workplace, and most organizations are poorly equipped to respond to these challenges in a meaningful and supportive way.

Penguin Business Experts: Coaching is a practical guide for leaders who want to foster a culture where everyone has a chance to flourish, create and innovate while being happy and more resilient. It draws on cutting-edge, evidence-based techniques in coaching that focus on developing mindfulness and compassion in leaders, their employees and throughout their organisation with case studies of best practice from around the world. It covers everything you need to know to develop your own approach to coaching starting with learning how to coach yourself through to techniques to foster a coaching culture rooted in mindfulness and compassion within your team, and ultimately your organization.

Genres: Nonfiction, Leadership

224 pages, Paperback

Published September 26, 2019

Reviews

[rayon · Rating 2 out of 5]

very vague

[Toby Neal · Rating 1 out of 5]

A book more about mindfulness in a work context than coaching.

[Hestia Istiviani · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read in English but this review is being written in Bahasa Indonesia

Coaching can be a 'just-in-time' intervention, helping employee avoid becoming depressed and taking time off from work.

Dalam beberapa tempat, terminilogi "coaching" di lingkungan profesional kerap diartikan sebagai akibat yang diterima karena telah berbuat salah. Biasanya, ada yang mengatakan, kalau belum diberikan sesi "coaching" maka seseorang akan terus membuat kesalahan dan tidak mengoreksi dirinya. Padahal, makna "coaching" tidaklah seperti itu. Menurut International Coach Federation, "Coaching is partnering with clients in a thought-provoking and creative process that inspires them to maximize their personal and professional potential."

Dalam buku Coach Your Team, Liz Hall menuliskan bagaimanakah sebaiknya sebuah proses "coaching" dilakukan. Buku ini dibagi menjadi tiga bagian. Dimulai dengan Setting Out yang berisi bagaimanakah caranya untuk memulai sebuah proses "coaching" dan apakah yang perlu dipersiapkan. Pada bagian kedua, Making It Happen, Liz Hall menuliskan tahapan dalam melakukan "coaching." Di sini, ia terlihat menekankan pada prosedur One-On-One Coaching. Baginya, melakukan One-On-One Coaching lebih mudah untuk memfokuskan pada tujuan akhir yang ingin dicapai oleh coachee-nya. Meskipun begitu, Liz Hall tetap menuliskan apa saja yang perlu dilakukan jika ingin melakukan "coaching" secara tim/kelompok.

Buku ini disajikan dalam bentuk tahapan-tahapan yang mudah diikuti. Liz Hall juga memberikan penjelasan yang memudahkan pembaca untuk memahami state of mind seperti apa yang sebaiknya dipersiapkan sebelum memulai sesi. Selain itu, buku ini juga dilengkapi dengan studi kasus, membuat pembaca setidaknya bisa mendapatkan gambaran bahwa praktik "coaching" memang penting untuk menciptakan kultur perusahaan agar lebih "mindfull"

In coaching and leadership, showing appreciation helps create trust and openness. We can always find something to appreciate.

Coach Your Team cocok dibaca tidak saja untuk para pimpinan sebuah tim. Bisa saja dibaca oleh mereka yang dengan tulus ingin menjadi pendengar yang baik dan membantu rekan kerjanya mengurai kerumitan dalam pekerjaannya. Kurang dari 200 halaman dan dilengkapi dengan langkah-langkah "coaching", buku ini bisa menjadi bacaan pertama sebelum mengeksplorasi dunia "coaching" seutuhnya.

[Lorraine · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book feels like the highlights or notes version of a deeper, more thorough textbook. It brushes the tops of all the trees, but never gets into the forest. If you've had significant coaching training, it may be enough to remind you of your strategies, but it does not give enough detail (aside from "start with meditation" every. single. time.) for anyone to start coaching, even poorly, their team. I found nothing to take away from the book and incorporate into my own coaching practice. It's too general.

[Jarkko Laine · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good, if not very novel ideas about incorporating coaching and mindfulness to everyday teamwork. As a book, though, I felt Coach Your Team was a bit repetitive and not very deep — I do get the feeling, though, that the author could be great as a speaker or as a guest in a podcast…

[Sam · Rating 3 out of 5]

Basic book about mindfulness and coaching

[Tao Chen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Waste of time even if you only skim through