Coaching and Mentoring - 4th Edition by Eric Parsloe & Melville Leedham (Paperback)

About the Book

Effectively implement coaching and mentoring strategies to enable individual and organizational success with the fourth edition of this practical guide.

Book Synopsis

How can coaching and mentoring approaches be applied in individual, team and organizational contexts to increase performance? Coaching and Mentoring offers a complete resource for developing and implementing the latest theories and models in your organization.

Featuring tips, tools and checklists throughout, this book covers all the key aspects of the process, from delivering feedback that builds confidence and success and observant listening to evaluating the effectiveness of initiatives and coaching supervision. Guidance is also provided on how to support people in their learning, getting buy-in from stakeholders and creating a coaching culture. Drawing upon insights from a number of experienced coaching and mentoring professionals, it also features case studies from the NHS and the CIPD's Steps Ahead mentoring programme to show how these approaches have been applied in practice.

This fully revised fourth edition of Coaching and Mentoring contains a new chapter on group and team coaching and further material on systemic coaching and how to use coaching for diversity and inclusion. Featuring updates to case studies and wider research, coaches and mentors of all levels of experience and those studying coaching and mentoring will benefit from this definitive text.

Review Quotes

"A classic general introduction to coaching and mentoring."-- "David Clutterbuck, Coaching pioneer and co-founder European Mentoring and Coaching Council"

"Diane and the OCM team have compiled and curated an absolute treasure trove of ideas, insights and refreshing illuminations of the essential toolkits and strategies of Coaching & Mentoring. This book will be a powerful resource for anyone wanting to raise their game as a coach or for leaders thinking through how best to implement coaching and mentoring to drive performance and shape culture."-- "Stephen Parker, Chief Human Resources Officer & Partner, Kearney"

"Eric Parsloe was a great early developer of Coaching in the UK and it is good to see his pioneering work carried forward by Ed Parsloe (his son) and by Diane Newell in this book."-- "Professor Peter Hawkins, Global thought leader and author"

About the Author

Eric Parsloe was an experienced international executive coach-mentor, one of the founders of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and founder of The OCM. He was also a member of the International Coaching Federation and the CIPD coaching and mentoring faculty.

Melville Leedham is an associate lecturer at The University of Northampton. Based in Northumberland, UK, he runs his own coach-mentoring business and also trains, supervises and assesses other coaches.

Diane Newell is the Managing Director of OCM Discovery at The OCM, based in Oxford, UK, offering consultancy and coaching to individuals and teams to support their strategic aims.