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Coaching & mentoring for dummies / by Marty Brounstein.

Summary:

Managers can skip the expensive training seminars and leaf through the pages of this book to learn how to be a better coach--one who can give feedback in a positive way, motivate employees and deal effectively with diversity issues, performance reviews, and other challenges.

Record details

ISBN: 0764552236 (pbk.)
Physical Description: xxiv, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Pub., [2000]
Copyright: ©2000

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Get off the bench and be the coach! -- Laying a foundation that builds commitment -- Coaching and managing diversity -- Finding the time to stay connected -- Giving constructive feedback, not praise and criticism -- Setting performance plans the SMART way -- Taking the blues out of reviews -- The do's and don'ts of mentoring and tutoring -- Don't tell, but do ask: tutoring with questions -- Taking them under your wing -- Motivation, not inspiration or perspiration -- Seven practical strategies to motivate employees -- Don't try to do it all yourself: delegate -- Knowing when, and how, to train -- Building career self-reliance -- Making the plan: coaching for development -- Ten coaching myths -- Ten skills that strengthen your foundation for coaching -- Ten management behaviors to avoid -- Ten (er, 50) ways to build commitment through coaching.