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Coaching Book Summary: The Coach
Not everyone likes to read a book from cover to cover. Noteveryone likes to spend hours searching for books of value. So,for those who like to pick and choose what they read, we haveput together an overview of The Coach: Creating Partnershipsfor a Competitive Edge. This coaching book will provide someinsight to what good leadership and coaching should look like.The Coach:Chapter One – About this coachingbookThis book begins by providing a summary of what leader-employeerelationships should look like. Coaching plays a central role increating and maintaining partner-oriented relationships. Chapter Two – Memories Never DieThis chapter explores an intriguing story about a manager facedwith a challenging coaching opportunity. As the story unfolds,the manager encounters obstacles and then discovers actions thatare needed to be a successful coach.Chapter Three – The Eight Step Coaching ModelThis chapter is a summary discussion of behaviors CMOE hasdiscovered from the study and research of effective coaches. Thecoaching model introduced in this chapter represents a road mapfor holding a successful coaching meeting.Chapter Four – The Five Levels of CoachingMany coaching situations are light, easy and fun. However,others are challenging, serious and painful. All five levelsrequire a different approach and mind set. Read this chapter andlearn how to “tweak” the Coaching Model to give you the bestpossible outcome for each situation.Chapter Five – Versatile CoachingThis chapter discusses personalities and individual differences.How do you adjust your coaching approach to accommodate andassimilate the wonderful uniqueness in our personalities? TheMyers Briggs Type Indicator is used as an example of how tounderstand personalities and flex your coaching style.Chapter Six – Supporting SkillsThe authors present the skills that make the Eight Step CoachingModel a positive and collaborative experience for the leader andemployee. This chapter contains specific hints for managers tofollow when using the Eight Step Coaching Model.Chapter Seven – The Coach’s ContributionExplores a range of potential problems the manager must planfor. The manager’s response to these issues will determine howhe/she will approach and orchestrate the coaching meeting.Chapter Eight – Coaching Lesson from the World ofSportsThis section talks about the differences and similaritiesbetween these very different environments. There are good andbad lessons from the often over-exposed world of sports. This isone contrast that many business coaching books do not explore.Chapter Nine – Positive Motivational CoachingThe book takes the coaching model beyond working with specificproblems to coaching the above average performer or the employeewho has not performance problem but needs a challenge or morejob satisfaction in order to contribute to the organization.Chapter Ten – Finding a CoachThis chapter explores the criteria for selecting a personalcoach and how to work out an understanding or agreement withsomeone who can fulfill the coaching role for you.Chapter Eleven – Coaching at Executive LevelsHere the authors talk about focusing the Coaching process onexecutive level relationships, performance issues, teamleadership, and adapting to change. Many people assume thatpeople who rise to the top are excluded from coachinginitiatives. This can be a disastrous assumption and one that isthoroughly explored in this chapter.Chapter Twelve – Concluding ThoughtsThis section provides a number of ideas that help put the entirecoaching process into perspective (Beyond Coaching, GroupProblem Solving, etc.). Look at these as bonus ideas to helpmake what you have learned even more effective.AppendixAt the back of this coaching book,you will find a planning guide for coaching sessions and asummary of the training design CMOE has used to teach theseconcepts and skills to hundreds of thousands of managers aroundthe world.
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