Could the secret to heightened engagement and increasing bottom line results begin with the quality of your conversations as a leader? This practical book is for busy managers who are looking for more effective ways to get work done through their team members. It's for managers who want to improve their direct reports' performance and ability to generate business results. It's for managers who want to help their people become engaged, focused and productive. It's for managers who realize that they spend most of their day communicating and want to create conversations that have a bigger impact. You will learn: - Why coaching conversations are essential for leaders today - How to handle the key challenges of coaching as a manager - How to address the critical role of building trust and accountability - When to have a coaching conversation (and when not to) - The five key skills of exceptional coaching for engagement - The link between coaching conversations and performance management - What to do if employees resist coaching conversations Coaching for Engagement also includes: - A field guide for preparing and having real conversations on topics that managers routinely face in organizations - A proven development process to bridge the gap from knowing how to coach for engagement, to implementing the new mindset and skills consistently The benefits of adopting a coaching approach as a manager include better working relationships, more creative ideas from employees, less ownership of other people's problems, less work for you as your employees take more initiative, and the satisfaction of knowing you are creating a legacy of growth and development. This book provides a proven trailmap that combines the mindset, skills, and process to ensure you reap these benefits.

An innovative professional development strategy that facilitates change, improves instruction, and transforms school culture! Instructional coaching is a research-based, job-embedded approach to instructional intervention that provides the assistance and encouragement necessary to implement school improvement programs. Experienced trainer and researcher Jim Knight describes the "nuts and bolts" of instructional coaching and explains the essential skills that instructional coaches need, including getting teachers on board, providing model lessons, and engaging in reflective conversations. Each user-friendly chapter includes: First-person stories from successful coaches Sidebars highlighting important information A "Going Deeper" section of suggested resources Ready-to-use forms, worksheets, checklists, logs, and reports

Coaching Employee Engagement Training is written for managers and other leaders who, regardless of their level of experience, wish to facilitate and support the development of truly engaged employees within their organization. Using clear suggestions on improving employee coaching skills, Coaching Employee Engagement Training focuses on the fundamentals of successful employee coaching, and delivers powerful, pragmatic lessons within an easy-to-use, highly efficient workbook format. With its comprehensive approach to teaching employee coaching, Coaching Employee Engagement Training is a valuable resource for everyone interested in creating a more engaged workplace environment. Some of the topics covered in Coaching Employee Engagement Training include: Creating and presenting highly effective training materials and methods. Tailoring your training to your specific audience. Choosing and implementing appropriate, applicable program formats. Utilizing the detailed lesson plans and user guides included in the book. Understanding the three levels of coaching communication. Deploying specific, detailed role-playing scenarios and suggestions. Objectively assessing and evaluating your training and coaching programs. More than just a manual, Coaching Employee Engagement Training is a complete resource offering in-depth lessons, suggestions, exercises, worksheets, and evaluation forms. Coaching Employee Engagement Training offers managers and leaders at every level of experience and organizational rank the tools needed to create and maintain a high degree of meaningful, organic employee engagement.

Ideas and inspiration to keep student learning at the center of instructional coaching--no matter where it occurs The guidance in this book will ensure we continue to focus on deeply knowing our students, having a coherent and focused curriculum, and coaching from a place of formative assessment and evidence. Authors Diane Sweeney and Leanna Harris, whose best-selling books have influenced thousands of K-12 coaches, have written Student-Centered Coaching from a Distance to help coaches and teachers adapt. Each chapter includes coaching 'moves' that can be used in virtual, hybrid, and in person settings. These technology-focused moves are accompanied by language stems, note catchers, and other tools that provide structure and coherence to coaching conversations. Each chapter also provides specific moves that promote equity and work to remove many of the barriers that have been brought into clearer focus during the challenges of our times. Readers will find · coverage of working to close opportunity gaps · specialized coverage of co-teaching from a distance · a highly effective coaching approach tailored to the distance learning context

Check out The Better Conversations trailer: https://youtu.be/y3FrWTXC8Uw "I thought I knew how to have a conversation; I’ve had millions of them. Some were good, others not so much so. But I want to have GREAT conversations, and Jim Knight has taught me how. The proof is in: better conversations are possible and the results are worth the investment." --DOUGLAS FISHER Coauthor of Rigorous Reading and Unstoppable Learning Because conversation is the lifeblood of any school You don’t want this book—you need this book. Why this confident claim? Think about how many times you’ve walked away from school conversations, sensing they could be more productive, but at a loss for how to improve them. Enter instructional coaching expert Jim Knight, who in Better Conversations honors our capacity for improving our schools by improving our communication. Asserting that our schools are only as good as the conversations within them, Jim shows us how to adopt the habits essential to transforming the quality of our dialogues. As coaches, as administrators, as teachers, it’s time to thrive. Learn how to: Coach ourselves and each other to become better communicators Listen with empathy Find common ground Build Trust Our students’ academic, social, and emotional growth depends upon our doing this hard work. It’s time to roll up our sleeves, open our minds, and dare to change for the better of the students we serve. You can get started now with Better Conversations and the accompanying Reflection Guide to Better Conversations.

Presence-Based Coaching offers coaches a hands-on resource for developing the capacities and skills needed to be reliably present in all situations, and shows how to let go of habitual—and often ineffective—ways of responding. As author and leadership expert Doug Silsbee explains, once a coach has mastered the inner moves of directing their own attention, they can work to develop the same capability in their clients. The ability of a coach to facilitate lasting, sustainable development in leaders rests on the presence a coach offers to the coach-client relationship.