Business Coaching & Mentoring for Dummies - (For Dummies) 2nd Edition by Marie Taylor & Steve Crabb (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Shape the leadership of tomorrow

Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies provides business owners and managers with the insight they need to successfully develop the next generation of leaders. Packed with business-led strategies, key concepts, and effective techniques, this book equips you with the skills to transform both yourself and your team. Whether you're coaching colleagues, employees, or offering your skills as a service, these techniques will help you build a productive relationship that leads to business success. The companion website also features eight bonus videos that will further your mastery by showing you what great coaching looks like in action. Navigate tricky situations and emotional minefields with ease; develop vision, values, and a mission; create a long-term plan--everything you need is here, with expert guidance every step of the way.

• Understand how mentoring benefits both sides of the relationship
• Learn key coaching techniques that develop leadership potential
• Adopt new tools that facilitate coaching and mentoring interactions

The modern workplace is a mix of generations, personalities, strengths, weaknesses, and quirks; great leadership can pull it all together toward a common goal, but who leads the leaders? Mentors and coaches fill this essential role, and this book shows you how to be one of the best.

From the Back Cover

• Tailor your own coaching and mentoring program
• Transform both yourself and your team
• Gain tips and strategies with bonus online videos

Build morale and boost your bottom line

Leaders exist in every generation--Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Millennials. With each generation comes something new and important to the workplace. This updated guide is filled with insight on key coaching concepts. It offers an impressive range of tools and techniques, supported by helpful companion videos, that help you transform both yourself and your team. Filled with insights on key coaching concepts, this guide will show business coaches and anyone in business how to radically improve their results.

Inside ...

• Be an effective mentor
• Develop relationships
• Engage, inform, and influence
• Boost coaching effectiveness
• Mentor any generation
• Create loyal employees
• Improve efficiency and effectiveness

About the Author

Marie Taylor worked across the spectrum of business in private and nonprofit organizations delivering a range of leadership training and behavioral training. Steve Crabb is a Licensed Master Trainer of NLP and a Master Transformative Coach who has helped to train and coach more than 30,000 people.