Leadership - Mentoring / Coaching
Winner
The Manager's Guide to Coaching for Change
John L. Bennett
This book is about effectively coaching others in your role as a manager-coach, a person who uses coaching-related knowledge, approaches, and skills to coach team members in the organization who report to them or who have sought their coaching. Managers and leaders at all levels play a vital role in developing talent, increasing performance, and supporting transitions and transformations and this book helps them and their teams prepare for, respond to, and learn from change which is critical for thriving. Leaders at all levels, human resource professionals, and graduate students will find research-based, practical approaches to developing talent, improving performance, and supporting transformation. Topics include the change coaching process, theoretical foundations of coaching, use of self in managerial coaching, six coaching skills, how to coach across differences, specialty coaching (peer, team, and executive), ethical considerations for coaching, and continuous development.
Leadership - Mentoring / Coaching
Winner
Coaching for Performance 6th Edition
Tiffany Gaskell
Sir John Whitmore
An international bestseller, featuring the influential GROW model, this book is the founding text of the coaching profession. It explains why enabling people to bring the best out of themselves is the key to driving productivity, growth, and engagement. A meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success.
This 6th edition has been updated throughout to reflect today's new world of work, and will revolutionize the traditional approach to organizational culture. Insightful real-world examples serve to champion inclusivity, alongside practical exercises which place an increased value on trust and responsibility. Critical new material has further been added to strengthen the process of measuring the benefits of coaching as a return on investment; all ensuring this contemporary new edition will remain at the forefront of professional coaching and leadership development.