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

by Ann Loehr, Brian Emerson, Anne Loehr

Book Overview

This is an invaluable tool that will help all leaders coach employees, colleagues, and themselves to excellence.

To stay on top, companies need to do more than just survive, they need to grow. Thus, their employees need to develop and improve their skills at the same pace.

Brian Emerson and Ann Loehr have spent years showing some of the country's top companies how to develop their most promising employees. In this helpful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814409822
• ISBN13: 9780814409824
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Amacom
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 17 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

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.

Practical Guide for Managers

My job provides me with many opportunities to help managers become more effective coaches. This book is an excellent resource in helping managers understand what it means to coach and more importantly how to actually do it. It is full of examples and tips that bring the concepts and models to life and you couldn't ask for a more comprehensive list of powerful questions! I highly recommend this book not only for new managers but seasoned managers as well who want to refresh their toolkit.

Great "how to" coaching guide

I liked the practical tips that allowed me to use this guide right away. It was less theory and more practice, which is what I needed. The W.I.N. B.I.G. coaching model was an easy 6-step process that easily translated into action. After experiencing different coaching styles myself, I found this book refreshing. It allowed me to look at different aspects of managing people and apply the tips and tools to different employees' needs and work situations. For example, I liked the authors' suggestions for coaching in 11 different work situations. Very practical and realistic! Give this coaching book a try - it's definitely worth the read!

From The Coaches Coach

As an "old-timer" in the life coaching industry, I am often referred to as "the coaches' coach" because I work with so many coaches starting their practice. A good percentage of my clients only want to be business coaches and `not get into all that life stuff." It's refreshing to find a book directed at business coaches and business managers which acknowledges and addresses the need to deal with the life stuff. I'm using this book as required reading for all my business coaches!

Exactly what I was looking for!

Emerson and Loehr really hit the nail on the head. They understand the complexities of a management position and give you simple real life strategies that can be used in any work place. A great read!