Coaching Essentials for Managers

"This book is the ultimate guide to retaining and engaging your  employees. Readers will walk away feeling fully prepared to coach and  inspire their employees to do their best and most engaged work."

—Dr. Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers

Discover how developing your coaching skills can help unleash your leadership superpower

Helping  employees hit their goals and feel engaged at work has always been a  rewarding part of a manager's job. But in today's hybrid world, helping  your team overcome challenges and feel fully seen, heard, and  appreciated is more than simply a "nice to have" skill. Developing a  robust, modern approach to coaching can help unlock your leadership  "superpower."

In Coaching Essentials for Managers, leadership  development expert Sara Canaday presents a solid business case for  sharpening these skills by explaining the tangible, proven benefits for  employees, managers, and their organizations, and reveals that  coaching—like many other management skills—is one you can hone and  perfect with the right information and tools. Whether you're just  starting out or looking to update your understanding of best practices,  you'll find what you need here, in three easy-to-digest parts:
Part  I: The Essentials includes coaching fundamentals, frameworks, attributes  of a great coach, a knowledge check and coaching self-assessment  Part  II: The Essentials Applied covers real-world challenges in performance  coaching and developmental coaching, common obstacles coaches face, and  how to coach in the virtual environment Part III: Beyond the Essentials  explores effective questions, powerful phrases, coaching "do's and  don'ts" and helpful tools and resources PLUS: A Coaching Framework  Guide, Coaching Preparation Worksheet, and Coaching Development Plan
Filled  with self-assessments, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises to  help reinforce what you've learned, Coaching Essentials for Managers  will help you walk away feeling fully prepared to coach your employees  to do their best, most engaged work—a leadership "superpower" that now,  more than ever, is needed in today's rapidly evolving workplace.