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

It all starts with one of the key pillars of coaching: awareness (see Figure 3). The reason for this is that awareness is curative: humans are natural learning systems. Once we become aware of something, we have the choice to change it. Awareness has various aspects:

AWARENESS OF ORGANIZATION – creating a positive impact on the culture Learn to align individual, team, and organizational goals and develop a coaching style which leads to high performance, learning, and enjoyment.

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

A leader’s task is simple: to get the job done and to develop employees. Time and cost pressures limit the latter. Coaching is one process with both effects.

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

Successful leaders of the future will lead in a coaching style rather than command and control Talent retention is a vital issue and expectations about the way people are treated are rising fast. Prescription, instruction, autocracy, and hierarchy are losing traction and acceptability. Good people want more choice, more responsibility, and more fun

coming toward you. As you meet them, greet them. Notice how they greet you. Really look at this person. What do you notice? How do they behave? How they make you feel? Is there a question you want to ask them? If so, ask that question now and listen to hear the answer. Now, say goodbye to this person and thank them for coming to meet you here today

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,

It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.