Shape the leadership of tomorrow

Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies provides business owners and managers with the insight they need to successfully develop the next generation of leaders. Packed with business-led strategies, key concepts, and effective techniques, this book equips you with the skills to transform both yourself and your team. Whether you're coaching colleagues, employees, or offering your skills as a service, these techniques will help you build a productive relationship that leads to business success. The companion website also features eight bonus videos that will further your mastery by showing you what great coaching looks like in action. Navigate tricky situations and emotional minefields with ease; develop vision, values, and a mission; create a long-term plan--everything you need is here, with expert guidance every step of the way.

* Understand how mentoring benefits both sides of the relationship

* Learn key coaching techniques that develop leadership potential

* Adopt new tools that facilitate coaching and mentoring interactions

The modern workplace is a mix of generations, personalities, strengths, weaknesses, and quirks; great leadership can pull it all together toward a common goal, but who leads the leaders? Mentors and coaches fill this essential role, and this book shows you how to be one of the best.



Klappentext
  • Tailor your own coaching and mentoring program
  • Transform both yourself and your team
  • Gain tips and strategies with bonus online videos

Build morale and boost your bottom line

Leaders exist in every generationBaby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials. With each generation comes something new and important to the workplace. This updated guide is filled with insight on key coaching concepts. It offers an impressive range of tools and techniques, supported by helpful companion videos, that help you transform both yourself and your team. Filled with insights on key coaching concepts, this guide will show business coaches and anyone in business how to radically improve their results.

Inside

  • Be an effective mentor
  • Develop relationships
  • Engage, inform, and influence
  • Boost coaching effectiveness
  • Mentor any generation
  • Create loyal employees
  • Improve efficiency and effectiveness


Zusammenfassung

Shape the leadership of tomorrow

Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies provides business owners and managers with the insight they need to successfully develop the next generation of leaders. Packed with business-led strategies, key concepts, and effective techniques, this book equips you with the skills to transform both yourself and your team. Whether you're coaching colleagues, employees, or offering your skills as a service, these techniques will help you build a productive relationship that leads to business success. The companion website also features eight bonus videos that will further your mastery by showing you what great coaching looks like in action. Navigate tricky situations and emotional minefields with ease; develop vision, values, and a mission; create a long-term planeverything you need is here, with expert guidance every step of the way.

  • Understand how mentoring benefits both sides of the relationship
  • Learn key coaching techniques that develop leadership potential
  • Adopt new tools that facilitate coaching and mentoring interactions

The modern workplace is a mix of generations, personalities, strengths, weaknesses, and quirks; great leadership can pull it all together toward a common goal, but who leads the leaders? Mentors and coaches fill this essential role, and this book shows you how to be one of the best.



Inhalt

Introduction 1

About This Book 1

Foolish Assumptions 2

Icons Used in This Book 3

Beyond the Book 4

Where to Go from Here 4

Part 1: Getting Started with Business Coaching and Mentoring 5

Chapter 1: Navigating the World of Coaching and Mentoring 7

Spotlighting the Business Benefits of Coaching and Mentoring 8

Defining Coaching and Mentoring 9

Coaching is the art of co-creation 9

Mentoring is the art of imparting wise counsel 11

Distinguishing coaching and mentoring from therapy 11

Distinguishing Business Coaching from Other Types of Coaching 14

Business coaching requires an understanding of business 14

Coaching leaders to be difference-makers 15

Equipping Yourself to Help Other People in the Business Context 18

Choosing a coach or mentor 20

Becoming a business coach or mentor 21

Being on the Other Side as Coachee or Mentee 22

Understanding Professional Requirements 23

Chapter 2: Making the Case for Coaching and Mentoring 27

Taking the Role of Educator 28

Valuing Third-Party Observation in Business 29

Showing that the coach's perspective matters 29

Knowing how perspective feeds into change 30

Understanding construal-level theory 30

Leading a client to the light-bulb moment 34

Identifying the Client's Return on Investment 34

Selling the benefits 35

Doing a cost-benefits analysis 36

Measuring and monetizing 38

Measuring the hidden benefits clients can't see 38

Investing now for a future return 40

Stretching the Budget 41

Adding Value by Training Leaders in Coaching and Mentoring Skills 42

Chapter 3: Developing the Skills and Knowledge Base of a Coach and Mentor 45

The Differences between Coaching and Mentoring 46

The coaching skillset 46

The mentoring mind-set 47

Coaching and Mentoring Skills 48

Being present for a session 48

Active listening 48

Why coaching is rarely about the first issue in the conversation 49

Doing your homework and developing relevant business knowledge 50

Structuring a Client Session 52

Getting into the right frame of mind 52

Contracting creates relationship clarity 52

The contracting session 53

Creating the right environment 54

Knowing your limitations 55

Using Models in Coaching and Mentoring 57

The CLEAR model 57

Solution-focused coaching model 60

A model for mentoring 61

Developing flexibility in utilizing models and tools 64

Working in Particular Circumstances 64

Coaching and mentoring via telephone, web, and email 64

Cross-cultural and multicultural work 67

Chapter 4: Assessing Clients' Needs before Coaching 69

Creating Programs to Deliver Coaching and Mentoring in Organizations 70

Figuring out what the organization wants and what the organization needs 70

Working with talent management and succession planning 76

Supporting coaches and mentors 77

Coaching Wannabe Business Owners and Startups 78

Helping startups see the value of coaching 78

Looking at areas for focus 79

Guiding the jack-of-all-trades and master of one 80

Helping the Family-Owned Business Survive and Thrive 82

Knowing where your support is most helpful 82

Evolving the legacy 83

Keeping business professional 84

Developing Intrapreneurs within Organizations 85

Creating the space to innovate 86

Turning the catalyst of an idea into reality 87

Working with the Socially Oriented Business 88

Knowing types and makeups 88

Identifying the challenges for the ...

Titel
Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies
EAN
9781119363934
Format
E-Book (pdf)
Hersteller
Veröffentlichung
03.07.2017
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
9.83 MB
Anzahl Seiten
432