Improve Your Coaching & Training Skills

  • 2h 11m
  • Patrick Forsyth
  • Kogan Page
  • 2008

Improve your Coaching and Training Skills is an accessible guide for busy managers who are responsible for developing and mentoring their staff, including organizing formal and informal training and coaching.

Staff development is a key management responsibility. Good people and good performance – and hence powerful, effective development – are vital to success in a fast-changing and competitive world.

Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills contains proven approaches and practical guidelines to help you develop your staff. Ideal for busy managers who don’t have human resources support, it will help you to boost staff effectiveness through coaching and training.

Essential topics covered include: why development matters; on-the-job coaching; mentoring; developing a formal training method; conducting a training session; assessing on-going effectiveness.

Also containing tips on using exercises and role-plays, Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills is useful to those new to HR as well as hard-pressed managers wanting to get the most from people. The commonsense advice it contains will help you to motivate your staff and maximise their effectiveness – and the results they achieve.

In this Book

  • Development: Route to Success
  • Development and Management Responsibility
  • The Development Task
  • On-the-Job Coaching
  • Formal Training: Deciding Content and Method
  • Formal Training: Conducting a Session
  • Formal Training: The Power of Participation
  • Assessing Ongoing Effectiveness
  • Afterword