Coaching, as explored in this book, is a process of raising awareness, generating responsibility and building trust. The real skills of coaching are asking the right questions and listening to the responses. Rooted in the inner game approach of Tim Gallwey (theres always an inner game being played in the mind, and your awareness of it can make the difference between success and failure in the outer game youre playing), Coaching at Work offers an up-to-date synthesis of many disparate ideas on the applications of coaching in the workplace. At the books heart are the Ten Laws of Coaching: If you treat people as small, small is where theyll stay. We need performance, learning and enjoyment, but we must keep them balanced. Learning is easier than being taught. The higher the need for performance, the higher the need for learning and enjoyment. Your team view you as their coach, whether you like it or not. There is no responsibility without choice, no choice without ownership, and no ownership without involvement. The success of your coaching is proportional to the level of trust you can establish. Curiosity is more useful than judgement. Coaching should be driven by demand, not supply. As a coach youll need to listen, ask questions and think, but you cannot do all three effectively at the same time
Book Details:
- Author: Matt Somers
- ISBN: 9780470017111
- Year Published: 2007
- Pages: 348
- BISAC: BUS041000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Management
About the Book and Topic:
Coaching, as explored in this book, is a process of raising awareness, generating responsibility and building trust. The real skills of coaching are asking the right questions and listening to the responses. Rooted in the inner game approach of Tim Gallwey (theres always an inner game being played in the mind, and your awareness of it can make the difference between success and failure in the outer game youre playing), Coaching at Work offers an up-to-date synthesis of many disparate ideas on the applications of coaching in the workplace. At the books heart are the Ten Laws of Coaching: If you treat people as small, small is where theyll stay. We need performance, learning and enjoyment, but we must keep them balanced. Learning is easier than being taught. The higher the need for performance, the higher the need for learning and enjoyment. Your team view you as their coach, whether you like it or not. There is no responsibility without choice, no choice without ownership, and no ownership without involvement. The success of your coaching is proportional to the level of trust you can establish. Curiosity is more useful than judgement. Coaching should be driven by demand, not supply. As a coach youll need to listen, ask questions and think, but you cannot do all three effectively at the same time
Coaching has emerged as the key to business success in the 21st Century, and will be the key leadership skill for decades to come. There is much corporate interest in coaching, and most companies now use coaches in connection with the development of their people. Taking this thinking further, there is great sense in the idea of creating coaches within the workplace – both to increase managerial effectiveness and to reduce the cost of employing external coaches. Matt Somers is well-placed to deliver the definitive guide to the applications of coaching within an everyday working environment.
AUTHOR PLATFORM: PEAK runs open and in-house training courses for organizations wishing to improve their coaching capabilities, and will place an initial order of 500 copies to fulfill demand (with potential for more to follow). They will also supply client lists and promote the book through their website and newsletters. OTHER SUPPORT: In addition to the Foreword by coaching expert and bestselling author Sir John Whitmore, further endorsements and reviews are expected from coaching and HR specialists including Gareth Ford (WS Atkins), Jan Richie (HAS Healthcare), Ian Moore (Treepax) and Geraldine Gault (Maritz Learning). HOT TOPIC: Coaching is increasingly being seen as an everyday management tool rather than an isolated process within organizations. Matt Somerss own effective method for realizing potential and enabling people to perform at their best is explained here in a clear, uncomplicated style with a focus on the key issues. INNER GAME: The work of Tim Gallwey has been extremely influential in the business world and far beyond, and Gallweys book The Inner Game of Work continues to sell very strongly. This book explores the inner game of coaching at work, and will find a ready audience of inner game fans keen to read more about these ideas.
About the Author
Matt Somers has been training managers for more than a decade. He is the founder and director of Peak, a training and development consultancy that specializes in improving coaching skills within organizations by means of face-to-face training. Peak sees people in terms of future potential rather than past performance, and always insists that coaching be linked to business results. Matt is author of Successful Coaching in a Week, a simple overview of the basics of coaching in the workplace. With Coaching at Work, he develops a much deeper examination of the subject for a more experienced audience. With a Foreword by Sir John Whitmore champion racing driver, sports psychologist, management consultant and author of Coaching for Performance.