In this guide, Oberstein demonstrates why coaching can be a powerful tool to drive organization performance and support the achievement of individual career goals. The solid, understandable process presented in the book encourages and supports positive, long-term change.

Build Your Coaching Skills to Develop Others Coaching has the power to enhance individual, team, and organizational performance. Its interactive process helps individuals set and act upon goals, make better decisions, and produce results. 10 Steps to Successful Coaching offers meaningful advice to help you embrace and elevate your existing coaching skills, drawing upon your strengths as a leader, colleague, or employee to bring out the strengths of others. This book is an entry point for anyone who wants—or has been asked—to do some formal or informal coaching. It’s also for anyone who wants to infuse day-to-day interactions in the workplace with a powerful new skill: development through coaching. With coaching skills quickly becoming essential for anyone who wants to help others develop in the workplace, use this book as your road map to being an effective coach who is ready to listen, encourage, and challenge others to greater achievement. Your coachees will enjoy greater job satisfaction and confidence, and your organization will benefit from this cost-effective way of developing employees and improving productivity. You, as a coach, will discover growth in your working relationships and gain a tremendous sense of accomplishment. This second edition addresses coaching in terms of the broader organization; creating a coaching culture; the impact of technology on the coaching relationship; and goal and accountability setting; overcoming obstacles to good listening; and ending the coaching process. You'll find a diverse array of tools to help you along the way. Examples include: a development plan to highlight existing coaching skills and areas of opportunity sample questions to ask during sessions forms to secure commitment to coaching an assessment to evaluate your organization’s coaching culture.

This is not your typical training book. You won't find a traditional training-cycle outline or a classic training table of contents. Instead, this book pinpoints the key actions necessary to successful training and focuses on the elements with the most influence on bottom-line results. Throughout the book you'll discover helpful, ready-to-use tools: worksheets, evaluation forms, tables, checklists, case studies, and reminders and suggestions. Whether you're a middle- or upper-level manager, or a workplace learning or human-resource professional, 10 Steps to Successful Training can provide you with options for enhancing the learning environment in your organization. Boost your success as a trainer and help others learn more effectively by investing in this essential guidebook today.

Reach New Heights as a Mentor Broaden people’s perspectives. Sustain momentum for development. Drive significant career growth. It doesn’t take a workplace superhero to accomplish all of this. You can do it—when you become a masterful mentor. While mentoring resources typically center on the mentee or the program, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is devoted explicitly to helping you excel in the role of mentor. In this book, Wendy Axelrod helps you stretch your mentoring abilities to yield substantial rewards for you and your mentee. Drawing on more than 20 years of work with mentors, she delves into proven approaches to use in your ongoing meetings, such as elevating the power of questions, leveraging experience for learning, and expanding growth using everyday psychology. Come away inspired to take on a fresh challenge. Whether mentoring is a calling or a choice, you’re new to it or a seasoned veteran, or you’re in a formal program or on your own, 10 Steps to Successful Mentoring is the resource you’ll return to again and again. It’s filled with real-life examples and 40 tools to help you master the nuances that drive deliberate development. Woven throughout are Wendy’s seven guiding principles that distinguish the most successful mentors (hint: “Start where your mentee is, not where you think they should be”). Become the best possible mentor, and deliver memorable experiences to your mentees and create a lasting legacy for yourself.

Internationally acclaimed business coach and consultant Kim George provides an easy-to-master process for coaches to bring out innate greatness and achieve peak performance. George introduces a new kind of intelligence quotient, Abundance Intelligence. AQ is the key to living into greatness, moving from a mentality of scarcity to one of abundance. Using her proven four-step process, you will learn to move your clients past their illusions to embrace the abundance aptitudes of self-worth, empathy, self-expression, surrender, actualization, significance, and inquiry. Personal examples, client case studies, and profiles of highly successful individuals demonstrate how the process works and how it helps individuals live into greatness.

This practical guide is for anyone contemplating coaching as a career: coaches in training, coaches already trained and hoping to build a thriving business. This totally revised second edition offers step by step guidance on what to do: • What does it take to succeed as a coach? How long does it take? • Why it matters to get practice clients and where to find them • Why is it so important to think like a buyer rather than like a seller? • What can you charge? • How do you make yourself distinctive in a crowded market? • What do you need to do to attract clients? Which marketing materials and methods pay off and which are a waste of time? • How can you exploit social media? • Overcoming your fear of selling: how to sell with integrity • Going for growth: what is involved in building an even bigger business? “Jenny Rogers has the rare ability to offer the lessons of decades of experience in ways which are practical to implement and easy to absorb. This book is comprehensive – offering both high level concept and lots of important details on the kinds of things that differentiate the successful coaching professional from the crowd.” Phil Hayes, Chairman, Management Futures, UK “Another great book from Jenny Rogers... As always with Jenny’s books, a new edition does not simply mean a few typos corrected and a couple of new references.” Jane Cook, Managing Director, Linden Learning, UK “In a marketplace crowded with quick fixes and unrealistic promises, this book is a breath of fresh air!" Leni Wildflower, PhD, PCC, Knowledge Based Coaching in the Workplace, Fielding Graduate University, USA “This book is a must read for anyone who wants to earn a living through coaching." Susan Binnersley, MD h2h resources limited, UK “This is a book that challenges and inspires, and you will find yourself recommending it to other people, who may not even be coaches.” Margaret Kelly, Executive Coach, Margaret Kelly Consulting, UK & Ireland “This book is an obvious must for anybody who wants to build a coaching business. But I would also recommend this inspiring and comprehensive book to anybody who thinks of different options in their professional life.” Dorota Porażka, Vice-President of the Board, DORADCA Consultants Ltd, Poland “I strongly recommend this book.” Ana Oliveira Pinto, Executive Coach, Portugal “This book is a must for coaches wanting business success.” Jacqui Harper, INSEAD lecturer, Communication Coach, Author, Speaker “A must-read for anyone wanting to build a coaching business.” Mark Wakefield, Director, Vogel Wakefield, the counter-consultancy, UK "A clear, systematic and down-to-earth primer on how to start, build and maintain a professional coaching business." Clare Brigstocke, Executive Coach, Lateralshift “Jenny Rogers’ earlier Developing a Coaching Business has been a mainstay for Meyler Campbell Graduates for years, but this new version is even better.” Daniel Burke, Chairman, Meyler Campbell

Includes chapters by Brian J. Sharkey on: Principles of training; Fitness for sport; Developing your training program, and Nutrition for athletes.