How to Be a Great Coach: 24 Lessons for Turning on the Productivity of Every Employee

by Marshall Cook

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Today's worker is empowered and intelligent, and no longer can you expect overbearing, high-pressure management tactics to improve performance. In the modern workplace, managers are discovering that they must work in partnership with their employees, providing them with the tools they need for success by first determining exactly what those tools are.

How to Be a Great Coach provides guidelines, best practices, and state-of-the-art approaches for working with, instead of against, your employees, boosting their motivation, performance, and productivity. This results-focused book examines 24 innovative and proven approaches for getting the best efforts from your employees by giving your best, and earning their respect by first learning how to:

Solicit their opinions-and take them seriouslyBe willing to take the hit for your own mistakesAsk targeted questions and patiently await answersCommunicate your willingness to hear complaintsFoster independence, not subservienceExplain your expectations clearlyAlways advocate for your employees

When your employees do well, you do well. Learn all about today's most effective coaching methods--what they are, how they work, and how you can use them to dramatically improve the performance of your employees--in the focused, hands-on leadership guide How to Be a Great Coach.

  • ISBN10 0071591362
  • ISBN13 9780071591362
  • Publish Date 16 June 2008
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 3 March 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint McGraw-Hill
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 128
  • Language English