Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations

Best Practice in Performance Coaching: A Handbook for Leaders, Coaches, HR Professionals and Organizations offers coaching models, tools, techniques and case histories, and explains how to run a coaching practice. Preface by Richard Branson. Foreword by John Whitmore.

Performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps to create a work/life balance.

Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for anyone thinking of becoming or hiring a coach - whether private or corporate - and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of performance coaching, it covers all topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship. There is extensive guidance on coaching techniques, models and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions.

Complete with worksheets and exercises, evaluations and international case studies this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.

About the Author

Carol Wilson is Honorary Vice President and Head of Accreditation at the Association for Coaching, Managing Director of Performance Coach Training and Culture at Work, and is on the Executive Committee of Sir John Whitmore's Performance Consultants International. She experienced the value of a coaching culture at first hand while working at board level for Richard Branson during the early years of Virgin.

After founding Virgin Music Publishers and elevating it to the position of the third most successful music publishing company in the United Kingdom, Carol became the first woman in the world to found her own chart-topping record label. Called Dindisc, this label today generates over 29,000 pages on Google. Subsequently, Carol held corporate board-level positions at PolyGram, WEA and Pinnacle. While discovering and working with many artists such as Sting, Martha & The Muffins, The Human League and Orchestral Manoeuvres in The Dark, Carol found her greatest satisfaction was in developing staff and artists to reach their full potential.

Carol has since trained or supervised the training of over 400 coaches in the public, corporate and private sectors. She is an international keynote speaker, broadcaster and writer, and was nominated for the Association for Coaching Awards Influence in Coaching and Impact in Coaching. She has contributed many articles to publications including Training Journal, Coaching at Work and Resource Magazine and a chapter to the Association for Coaching book Excellence in Coaching: an Industry Guide (Passmore, 2006). Carol specializes in creating coaching cultures in organizations and training individuals in coach-ing skills through a worldwide team of coaches and trainers.

In addition to her work in coaching, Carol has partnered David Grove, the founder of Clean Language, in defining his therapeutic Emergent Knowledge techniques into methods which can be used by coaches and other practitioners.