Leader as Coach
- 5 Courses | 2h 14m 32s
- 11 Books | 26h 51m
- 5 Audiobooks | 25h 4m 24s
Coaching is key to developing talent in your organization. Learn how to implement the fundamental practices leaders require to coach effectively.
GETTING STARTED
Providing Feedback to Support Neurodiverse Employees, powered by MIT SMR
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2m 48s
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3m 32s
COURSES INCLUDED
Providing Feedback to Support Neurodiverse Employees, powered by MIT SMR
Through a collection of multiple articles, the authors share details pertaining to giving performance feedback to neurodiverse employees and ensuring that it benefits them in their day-to-day work.
7 videos |
21m
Assessment
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Welcome to the Leadership Development Program
Whether you're new to a leadership role or a battle-tested veteran, there is always more to learn about leading people, leading teams, or leading your business. Learning is a life-long journey, and leadership development is an ongoing process. In this course, you'll be introduced to Skillsoft's Leadership Development Program. Comprised of thirty modern competency-based leadership channels, this program will help expand your knowledge about what it takes to be a leader and the necessary mindsets and behaviors that enable successful leaders to face and overcome the challenges they encounter every day. This course provides an introductory overview to the program and the rich array of courses, resources, tools, and expert advice available to help you grow your leadership career.
1 video |
9m
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Coaching for Success
Coaching is about inspiring people to do their best and helping them achieve professional success. Coaching is a dynamic collaborative relationship between the coach and coachee in which they communicate and interact to help the coachee achieve growth, develop professionally, develop a healthy mindset, and improve their performance. Every leader must develop their own coaching style, but the process is made up of some fundamental practices that all leaders need to understand. Effective coaches help people to find their own answers. In this course, you will learn the key aspects of coaching and what qualities you will need to develop to help you become an effective coach. You will also learn how to develop a trusting coach-coachee relationship, as well as strategies for implementing coaching best practices.
6 videos |
23m
Assessment
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Developing Successful Coaching Relationships
In a perfect business world, all employees would be ideally suited to their jobs, with skills and aptitudes fully aligned to their roles. In the real world, however, successful leadership requires coaching and mentoring. Leaders must foster a culture conducive to coaching and be capable themselves of stepping into a coaching role when it's called for. In this course, you'll learn coaching techniques for building dynamic and purposeful coaching relationships. You'll learn some coaching principles that will guide you in helping your team members exceed their preconceived limitations and reach their full potential.
8 videos |
50m
Assessment
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PMI PDU
Leadership Insights on Coaching
Like a physical trainer, good coaches don't do the heavy lifting for others. Instead, they ask questions, assist in setting up action plans, and most importantly, build skills and self-confidence-even in the most reluctant of employees.
9 videos |
28m
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Skillsoft is providing you the opportunity to earn a digital badge upon successful completion on some of our courses, which can be shared on any social network or business platform.
Digital badges are yours to keep, forever.BOOKS INCLUDED
Book
MIT Sloan Management Review on Leader as Coach Special CollectionIn this collection of articles from MIT Sloan Management Review, you'll learn how to manage being a leader and a coach at the same time, and if you possess the necessary abilities to lead and develop employees.
51m
By MIT Sloan Management Review
Book
MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Stop Rushing In With AdviceThis article from MIT Sloan Management Review talks about why your words of wisdom probably aren't worth very much.
1m
By Michael Bungay Stanier
Book
Communicate Like a Leader: Connecting Strategically to Coach, Inspire, and Get Things DoneGrounded in extensive research, this book offers practical guidelines to help professionals think, coach, converse, speak, write, meet, and negotiate strategically to deliver results.
2h 16m
By Dianna Booher
Book
Everyday Coaching: Using Conversation to Strengthen Your CultureThrough practical tips and examples, this book demonstrates the difference between conversations and true dialogue, and presents an easy-to-use coaching model you can use to practice giving feedback, making agreements, and guiding behavior.
2h 44m
By Lisa Nabors, Virginia Bianco-Mathis
Book
Neuroscience for Coaches: How to Use the Latest Insights for the Benefit of Your Clients, Second EditionA vital resource for keeping up to date with recent scientific developments, tools and techniques in coaching, this book covers the latest neuroscientific research and, crucially, the ways in which coaches can use this information effectively and practically in their everyday work.
4h 42m
By Amy Brann
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Anytime Coaching: Unleashing Employee Performance, Second EditionWhether you lead a cross-functional team on a short-term project, or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, this book equips you with a set of coaching tools you can use immediately to transform the way you work with employees and colleagues.
2h 39m
By Teresa Wedding Kloster, Wendy Sherwin Swire
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Strength-Based Leadership Coaching in Organizations: An Evidence-based Guide to Positive Leadership DevelopmentOffering a review of strength-based approaches to positive leadership development, this book evaluates the evidence for their effectiveness, critically assesses their apparent distinctiveness, and considers how strengths can be reliably assessed and developed in their organizational context.
3h 19m
By Doug MacKie
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Coaching and Mentoring: Practical Techniques for Developing Learning and Performance, Third EditionFor anyone looking to develop their coaching and mentoring skills at individual, team or organizational level, this clear and accessible resource uses practical tools and best practices to demonstrate how to relate theoretical models to specific situations to gain real benefits.
5h 53m
By Eric Parsloe, Melville Leedham
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The Quick and Easy Performance Appraisal Phrase Book: 3,000+ Powerful Phrases for Successful Reviews, Appraisals and EvaluationsWhether you need to jump-start the review-writing process or are searching for phrases you can use verbatim, this book will help any manager quickly and easily select the best phrasing for any review - good or bad.
1h 48m
By Patrick Alain
Book
2600 Phrases for Setting Effective Performance Goals: Ready-to-Use Phrases That Really Get ResultsGiving you the language you need to establish compelling, actionable performance goals, this uniquely practical guide provides insightful strategies to accomplish more through others, serve as an effective career mentor and coach, and help your company stand out from the competition.
2h 19m
By Paul Falcone
Book
Feedback that Works: How to Build and Deliver Your MessageThis guidebook on delivering effective feedback shows you how to formulate, organize and communicate your message to help people learn and develop.
19m
By Sloan R. Weitzel
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AUDIOBOOKS INCLUDED
AUDIOBOOK SUMMARY
Coaching and Mentoring: How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger PerformanceCoaching and Mentoring provides the indispensable foundational knowledge required to establish a compatible coaching or mentoring environment within your organization. In this Review, we discuss the salient points of the book based on our interpretation of its contents.
10m 30s
By Richard Luecke
Audiobook
Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership, Fourth EditionThis audio edition explains clearly and in-depth how to unlock people's potential to maximize their performance.
7h 1m 3s
By John Whitmore
Audiobook
Action Coaching: How to Leverage Individual Performance for Company SuccessIn this audio edition, authors David Dotlich and Peter Cairo share the same advice, techniques, and tools they've used to transform hundreds of managers and executives into first-rate coaches.
8h 19m 4s
By David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo
Audiobook
The Leadership Playbook: Creating a Coaching Culture to Build Winning Business TeamsCombining research, interviews, and inspiring stories with the lessons that have earned the author the respect of the world's foremost corporations including CISCO, FedEx, Sprint, the U.S. Army, and State Farm, this audio edition shows leaders the skills necessary to be an effective coach and to build effective teams. Read by the author.
5h 34m 54s
By Nathan Jamail
Audiobook
Coach to Coach: An Empowering Story About How to Be a Great LeaderThis audio edition is ideal for coaches, leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, educators, parents, and anyone wanting to bring out the best in those around them.
3h 58m 53s
By Martin Rooney
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SKILL BENCHMARKS INCLUDED
Leading Your Team
Great teams don't come together by accident. Successful leaders know that putting together an efficient and effective team requires planning, forethought, honest assessment, and a little trial and error. And once you've put the team together, then comes the work of coaching, motivating, and managing them. In this Leading Your Team Unit benchmark, you'll have the opportunity to see where your team building, and team leading skills currently stand and learn where you can further develop and refine your abilities to lead your team to success. This benchmark evaluates your understanding of this topic. Being aware of potential knowledge gaps allows you to better understand your current competency and areas for improvement, so you can find suitable content and curate your own learning path. The courses recommended at the end of this benchmark can help you fill potential gaps in your knowledge.
14m
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