Coaching
Coaching And Mentoring For Dummies: Learn About Life Coaching
Marty Brounstein’s "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" is an excellent addition to the Dummies line of self-help books that, despite their name, are smart choices for people seeking help with their lives. With coaching training a popular means of self improvement, the publisher has provided a handbook for people considering such training and for anyone already working as a personal coach.
Coaching used to mean sports coaches or vocal coaches or other physical skills but now applies to mental and intellectual development and to job skills and performance as well. "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" focuses on guiding employees to better performance and achievement by identifying the roles and behaviors of an effective coach or mentor.
Delegation in training is probably one of the most important concepts touched on in Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies. An excellent manager will be good at delegating tasks and should be able to show others how to do things rather than doing tasks for them. The key to this process is communication.
Other methods which "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" teach are on how to motivate, so job satisfaction and productivity can be increased. Mentors are taught how to bring forth a response by asking questions, rather than by barking out an order, and also how to make performance reviews and evaluations more positive, and less stressful for everybody.
The book provides concrete worksheets to use for planning and evaluation that can be used as they are or individualized to better fit a situation. It also discusses delicate issues like diversity and discrimination issues and workplace psychology and environment as they affect the coaching process. It also explains how to identify special talents and how to grow them in employees and how to benefit from them.
Anyone who trains and supervises other can benefit from "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" whether they have taken formal training or not. Even the most experienced and successful mentor will appreciate this handbook as a refresher or as a constant resource for coaching and mentoring issues. There is a wealth of information clearly presented and convenient to use. Best of all, the price is very small for the benefits received.
Coaching and mentoring for dummies is an excellent guidebook for trainers. It also serves as an excellent self-help guide for those taking coaching training. It stresses on using proper relegation through clearly communicated ideas and goals. It will help you increase productivity, efficiency, satisfaction, self-confidence and much more. Rather than giving diktats, it gives you actionable advices which are easy to apply. It also contains sheets for use as a planner and to show review the progress achieved. Sensitive issues like gender, race and other such things concerning the workplace are also dealt in this personal coach guidebook.