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
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.
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
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