Learn how to coach individuals and teams as a leader with this best-practice book.

Coaching individuals and teams is an essential part of a leader's role, Without effective coaching, employees and businesses will never reach their full potential but how do you get this right? How can leaders encourage people to think critically and confidently problem-solve? How can they adapt their communication style to make sure that language is clear and direct but also supportive and motivational? How can leaders use their coaching skills to influence employee behaviour and company culture? This book answers all these questions and more to provide leaders, senior executives and senior coaches with a best-practice guide on how to coach from a senior position. It covers the skills you need to coach as a leader +as well as how to adopt a coaching approach to all elements of the employee life cycle from onboarding and engagement through to goal-setting and managing performance. Designed for use by senior business professionals needing to coach their team and executive coaches who are coaching these leaders, this book is essential for reading on how to support and develop a workforce and allow employees to reach their full potential. Coaching as a Leader also includes essential advice on how to maintain boundaries between senior practitioners and employees as well as safeguarding confidentiality. Written by a team of global experts and edited by the Association for Coaching, this is a best practice handbook for coaching as a leader.

Includes discussion of how to maintain boundaries between senior practitioners and the workforce and safeguard confidentiality

Autorentext
Jennifer Kidby has been applying psychology in the workplace for over 25 years, working as an external consultant, an internal practitioner and a leader. Based in Ontario, Canada, she is a Chartered Psychologist, an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and an accredited coach and coach supervisor.The Association for Coaching (AC) is an independent, non-profit professional body with the goal to advance the profession of coaching worldwide. Its members are made up of professional coaches, providers of coaching, and organizations building coaching cultures in over 90 countries. The AC is headquartered in London, UK.

Inhalt

• • Chapter - 01: Why coaching is essential is an essential skill for leaders;
  • Chapter - 02: How to build coaching into a leadership strategy;
  • Chapter - 03: Overcoming the expertise gap
  • Chapter - 04: Developing as a coaching leader;
  • Chapter - 05: Language and communication;
  • Chapter - 06: Onboarding and engagement
  • Chapter - 07: Setting goals and managing performance;
  • Chapter - 08: Coaching and culture;
  • Chapter - 09: Problem-solving and critical thinking;
  • Chapter - 10: Boundaries and confidentiality