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The Tao of Coaching
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The Tao of Coaching

Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You

Profile Books, 2015
First Edition: 1997 Mehr


Editorial Rating

8

Recommendation

Drawing on 30 years of experience, coaching expert Max Landsberg updated and expanded this third edition of his bestseller. He organizes his model – which shows how to conduct Socratic coaching by asking strategic questions – into concise chapters, each articulating a main concept. Chapters begin with a relevant cartoon and a pithy motto, and close with charts showing the problems that Landsberg addressed and the solutions he suggested. Multiple appendices give managers specific evaluation tools and exercises. Landsberg teaches the real, heavy lifting of building up people’s achievements in the workplace. Happily, his book is not burdensome; it’s highly readable and sliced into easily digested bites. He helps you exercise a psychological skill, one on one, without drifting into therapeutic counseling. getAbstract recommends Landsberg’s enlightened, easy-to-use “toolkit” to anyone seeking to become a great coach and to those who are being coached.

Take-Aways

  • Good coaching means helping employees arrive at solutions with guidance, not telling them what to do.
  • Coaching returns benefits to the coach, including better customer and client relations, a stronger team, a more loyal following and increased self-awareness.
  • Effective feedback sticks to specific observable facts according to the acronym “AID”: “Actions,” their “Impact” and the “Desired” outcome.

About the Author

Executive coach Max Landsberg also wrote The Tao of Motivation, The Tools of Leadership and The Call of the Mountains.


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    k. m. 4 years ago
    Thank you for the ability to view
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    R. P. 5 years ago
    Good read.
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    S. C. 6 years ago
    Not a great summary. Actionables are less. Could have included the AID model of feedback.

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