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Coaching
for Performance Overview Coaching is more than a skill or a technique for individual
and team development. It is invaluable for task performance and delegation. It
can be deployed as effectively for quick
management interactions as it can in a half hour coaching session. Embedded in the process of on going
communication and relationship building it delivers practical, common sense approaches
to developing people and services, and is a powerful way of creating excellent
results. One of the principle reasons for the popularity of this book, we are told, is that the language is so easy to read and understand, but I have attempted to refine that further throughout the whole book and make it even more so. I have also divided it into four Parts: The Principles of Coaching; The Practice of Coaching; Leadership for High Performance; and Transformation through Transpersonal Coaching. This makes it easier to identify the subject you want and to dip in and out of it. A New Section on Leadership This fourth edition of Coaching for Performance comes at a time when humanity is facing huge challenges in the economy, in the environment, in the widening gap between rich and poor, and in social stress and distress…………….and for which coaching has so much to offer. I go on to explore the huge changes in the type of leadership required for to future, and the challenges they will have, for example no leader of even a mid size organisation can afford to ignore global issues any more.
From that position we the consider in depth how leaders at every level can develop these deeper qualities such as vision, values, authenticity, agility and alignment with a greater purpose. This leads is into the fourth part Transpersonal coaching where I provide a range of methods and models for advanced coaches to use to enable then to facilitate deeper learning and personal development. This raises question like, “What is your purpose in life?” and ever what is perhaps the deepest of all coaching questions, “Who are you?” The last chapter in this section is entitled, “The Future Focus of Coaching.” Despite these major additions to the book, I have not shied away from those many people who are now entering this growing maturing profession of coaching. This book will help them get started and find their way forward. They are much needed not only in corporations but in all our institutions where the demand is also growing; institutions such as the civil service, local government, healthcare and education, even the military and the police are all adopting coaching and seeking coaches. Over 500,000 copies of this book have been sold worldwide. The previous edition exists in more than 20 different languages and hopefully this one will be equally widely available over time.
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