Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership FULLY REVISED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (People Skills for Professionals)

Coaching is all about a journey and nothing about instruction or teaching.

Coaching focuses on future possibilities, not past mistakes

spiritual intelligence (or SQ, as it became known). Spiritual in this sense is not a religious concept, but is defined by authors Ian Mitroff and Elizabeth Denton as “the basic desire to find ultimate meaning and purpose in one’s life and to live an integrated life.”

Few leaders doubt that self-motivation would be better, but forcing someone to motivate themselves is a contradiction in terms. Self-motivation dwells within the mind of each individual, out of reach of even the chiefest of executives.

AWARENESS OF SELF – understanding why you do what you do Learn to recognize your human tendencies, internal interferences, and biases in order to consciously choose responses rather than reacting. This will lead to improved performance by self-managing

coaching requires expertise in coaching, not in the subject at hand. That is one of its great strengths. And

Our experience shows that the development of employees is the lowest priority of four criteria that cause us to adapt our leadership behavior in the moment. At the head of the list comes time pressure, then fear, and next comes the quality of the job or the product, leaving employee development a poor fourth. Shortage of time and excess fear drive

We all have a built-in, natural learning capability that is actually disrupted by instruction.

what skills does the leader or coach need? Certainly, they need to develop the fundamental skills of asking powerful questions to raise awareness and responsibility,