Coaching
Coaching And Mentoring For Dummies: A Guidebook For Managers
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.
It used to be that coaching was confined to such things as sports, or voice lessons, or other applications for physical skills. Today coaching means much more, applying to other facets of life such as mental and intellectual skill and performance development. "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" is a book focusing on developing better performance and achievement levels in employees, helping to identify important aspects of how to effectively coach and mentor.
"Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" emphasizes the importance of delegating responsibilities. When you are training someone, it’s best to let him or her learn from doing a job themselves than to watch you do it. Good managers all know how to delegate and what work they should and can do themselves versus what they can and should disseminate to others. In the delegation process, it’s important to use clear communication to keep it all straight.
"Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" also discusses motivation techniques to improve worker productivity and satisfaction. Coaches learn not to issue commands, but rather to engage employees by posing questions about a specific project. The book also covers ways of conducting employee assessments and job reviews so as to create more positive experiences for both employees and supervisors alike.
The book includes worksheets set up for use in planning and evaluation of each individual situation, whether used as is or customized to the particular situation. It also takes on sensitive issues in the workplace such as discrimination and diversity problems, along with the effect of the coaching process on workplace environment and psychology. The book also discusses ways to pick out special talents in individuals and ways to help them value and increase those talents, and ways to benefit therefrom.
Coaching and mentoring for Dummies will benefit any person who manages and provides training for others. this is true whether or not they have a formal education in these things either as seasoned veterans of management can find a use for this resource. It provides quite a bit of very useful information for the very reasonable price of the book.
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.