Action Coaching

How to Leverage Individual Performance for Company Success

by David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo

		Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc. Publishers Pub. Date: 1999 ISBN: 9780787944773 No. pages: 287 Category: Human Resources

In this summary you will learn

How action coaching boosts performance through self-awareness
Why coaches must always be aware of organizational values and objectives
Which eight steps to follow to implement action coaching in your organization

Why you should read Action Coaching

David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo discuss how to use action coaching to improve individual effectiveness and boost your overall organization. Their approach begins with fostering self-awareness and then uses this awareness to motivate change that the organization needs. Action coaching involves a series of steps and some specific coaching tools. While this book provides a fairly well-organized and well-written introduction to the concept, it covers familiar training and development ground. If you are a beginner in this area, the repetition of steps and processes will come in handy. Experienced trainers will find the coaching tools quite familiar and the assessment questions fairly obvious. Thus, getAbstract recommends this book for those who are new to training and development, or for employees who are considering getting coached.

About the Authors

David L. Dotlich is a former executive vice president of Honeywell and Groupe Bull, and a founding partner in CDR International. As an executive coach, his clients include Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Merck, Arthur Andersen, Sprint, and others. He teaches executive education programs at the Universities of Michigan and Minnesota, and is coauthor of Action Learning. Peter C. Cairo, the former co-chair of Columbia University’s Department of Organizational and Counseling Psychology, is a founding partner in CDR International. His clients have included AT&T, BellSouth, Colgate, and Merck.

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