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by: Stephen G. Fairley, William Zipp
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.3124
EAN: 9780470146927
ISBN: 0470146923
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: November 02, 2007
Publisher: Wiley
Sales Rank: 129469
Studio: Wiley
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Product Description:
Discover the 10 best Coaching practices for solving problems and implementing change with clients--right away
Coaching works, there's no doubt about that. But the coaching industry is going through tremendous change that all professional coaches need to address.
Equipping coaching professionals to stay on the cutting-edge of their craft, The Business Coaching Toolkit: Top 10 Strategies for Solving the Toughest Dilemmas Facing Organizations expertly provides a collection of application-based, proven tools that present creative solutions to common situations encountered in today's workplace.
This hands-on guide creatively empowers professionals to:
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Achieve greater performance by identifying and maximizing strengths and managing weaknesses
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Lead their team or client through setting specific, measurable, and reasonable goals
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Discover the deeper meaning of vision and tie goals into the client's core values
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Guide clients through a comprehensive analysis of their current situation--the good, the bad, and the ugly
Whether it's increasing a client's time management skills, giving feedback to an employee, or building a leadership team, The Business Coaching Toolkit presents a valuable supply of straightforward exercises designed to bring a new dimension to every coaching professional's work with clients.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Bill Zipp practices what he preaches
This book review is written from a different perspective. I am not a professional business coach, but I have benefited from Bill Zipp's coaching and mentoring for several years. If he writes like he coaches this book should be 10 stars.
As I have surveyed 'The Business Coaching Toolkit' I recognized several themes that Bill encouraged me to consider, the one percent solution, the sixth suitcase, SMART goals and the new twist on SWOT. But, more importantly, is that he walked me through ... Read More
Rating: - A straightforward book about business coaching that covers the tools necessary to do one's job: people skills and biz strategy.
This was a very good book. It was written well and an easy read. It is written for business coaches who will benefit from having different problem solving techniques presented to them. Some of what is covered has to do with how to effectively use people skills to help the people being coached. While other things covered had to do with what solutions to recommend when coaching. The book had 11 chapters as follows:
0. Introduction: The evolution of personal coaching
1. Developing ... Read More
Rating: - The Business Coaching Toolkit
As an experienced business coach (eighteen years), I resonated with many of the observations and descriptions. I also picked up some excellent tips (the closure letter for one) and have done a fair amount of reflection on my own coaching practice while reading. That's a lot of value to receive from one book!
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