Coaching is a powerful tool that many organizations are using to boost both individual and company-wide performance. Coaching Basics is designed as a baseline guide to help you develop these essential business skills. As noted by the author, coaching is a powerful tool that can move mountains of self-imposed resistance that get in the way of action and [business] results. In addition to building solid coaching skills, you will find essential tips on ensuring a coaching conversation is focused on your client's goals. Get guidance on how to avoid confusing coaching with advice, preaching, and counseling and the importance of keeping your eye on business and performance results.

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Product Description: This Infoline focuses on the skills that are needed to succeed in middle management, specifically, the top five capabilities every middle manager needs to succeed: effective relationship building, building talent, critical thinking and alignment, optimizing performance, and inspiring excellence...read more

Product Description: Lisa Haneberg has 25 years of experience as a coach, trainer, writer, and consultant, and is currently vice president for MPI Consulting, an organization development practice in Cincinnati. When it comes to delivering fresh, practical approaches to the art of coaching, you can't beat Haneberg...read more

Product Description: I think about middle management a little differently than most: as the engine of the organization. Middle management does not need to be synonymous with drudgery, dead end jobs, and bureaucratic inefficiency. In High Impact Middle Management, I encourage

Product Description: This facilitator's guide is a companion piece to 10 Steps to Be a Successful Manager and provides individuals involved with training new managers with an instant success tool. Applying the factors to enhance learning and application, the guide provides a framework to transfer management development principles and practices in to the classroom or on-the-job seting...read more

Product Description: This Infoline offers you a direct path to conduct just-in-time coaching. You'll learn how to establish coaching relationships, recognize just-in-time coaching opportunities, assess interest and coachability, and create effective just-in-time coaching dialogues.

Organization development (OD) practitioners help companies manage change and align people, processes, and practices for success. This book offers information to gain an understanding of the tools, practices, and core skills of the OD practitioner. It is suitable for training managers wishing to add new knowledge and capabilities to their resume.

Product Description: Most organizations today have a basic hierarchy: the entry-level staff that does the basic work' and the people at the top who make the decisions, enjoy the victories and delegate the failures. Then there are those people in the middle who must translate upper management's strategies into organizational results, keep the staff motivated and make sure it all gets done...read more