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Summary
Summary
Coaching is a proven method of improving individual and team performance: its success derives from an understanding that all meaningful progress is driven from within. Coaching Solutions offers practical tools to help individuals, teams and organizations secure the improvements they want.
The book is for:
* teachers who want a way of better understanding and motivating the hard-to-reach
* managers who want to help their team reclaim the agenda
* leaders who want an institutional focus that will bring energy to the system
* parents who have a reluctant youngster at home
Coaching Solutions contains sections on:
* What is coaching?
* How do you coach?
* Where do you begin with coaching?
* How could you develop a coaching organization?
It provides dialogues and case studies and cites evidence of success. There are examples of schools using coaching successfully to bring about change, together with masterclasses at the end of every chapter. Written in a comprehensive style, this book is your passport to progress.
Author Notes
Will Thomas is a training consultant and performance coach. He is the director of the training company Vision for Learning Ltd.
Alistair Smith is the UK's most effective motivational trainer working with schools and teachers. He has written a number of best selling books on learning and is the author of PAL, the web-based parent learning programme.
Table of Contents
| Foreword |
| How to use this book |
| Section 1 Orientation: putting coaching in context |
| 1 The benefits and uses of coaching |
| Section 2 What is Coaching? |
| 2 Defining coaching |
| 3 Improving communication |
| 4 The essential coaching skills |
| 5 Beliefs and coaching |
| Section 3 How do you coach? |
| 6 A model of coaching |
| 7 The power of questions |
| 8 Coaching the reluctant |
| Section 4 Where now with coaching? |
| 9 Advanced techniques in coaching |
| 10 The coach's own development and self-management |
| 11 Organizational perspectives |
