Contents 1. Introduction: Why Coaching? 2. What Is Business Coaching? 3. Coaching Is Not Training, Mentoring or Counselling 4. Different Types of Coaching 5. The External Coach or Coaching Consultant 6. The Manager as Coach 7. Coaching and Leadership 8. Key Coaching Skills 9. The GROW Coaching Model 10. Formal and Informal Coaching
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Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition
s an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back.
Coaching, Mentoring, and Managing: Breakthrough Strategies to Solve Performance Problems and Build Winning Teams
This book offers hundreds of practical, easy-to-learn techniques every manager can use to coach employees to become more productive, positive, inspired and effective. Filled with real-world advice and management-changing exercises, this manual shows how to get the most from employees in today's era of downsizing, layoffs, buyouts and mergers. Managers learn how to be more than just a boss and develop the skills and strategies to become more like a coach to their employees.
