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The Manager as Coach
Jerry W. Gilley, Ann Gilley
Book Code: C9290
ISBN: 0-275-99290-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-99290-3
152 pages, 6 figures 7 tables
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 2/28/2007
List Price: $34.95 (UK Sterling Price: £19.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: The Manager as ...
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  • Jerry Gilley and Ann Gilley focus on performance coaching and describe how a manager plays that particular role. They define its nature and purposes, and detail the roles and responsibilities of types of coaches: trainers, strategists, performance appraisers, and career advisors. Important skills, practices, and the process of coaching are then detailed. Some checklists and forms are included.
    —Reference & Research Book News     May 2007
Description: Whether large or small, manufacturing or service, every organization selects managers and assigns them the task of securing results through people. In theory, managers serve as guides, directors, decision makers, and energizers for their employees. Unfortunately, few managers have, themselves, been trained in the skills and techniques to get the best results from their employees, and managerial styles can run the gamut from permissive-but-ineffectual to aloof to autocratic. This volume in The Manager as... series addresses the challenges of effective management head-on by exploring the role of manager as coach. Focusing on the key purposes of coaching--improving individual performance, solving problems, and securing results--the authors dispel popular myths and misconceptions of management coaching as a passing fad, a process of endless tutoring, or superficial motivation techniques, and offer practical tools for mastering the skills of effective coaching to the benefit of both employees and the organization. They identify four primary roles managers--as coaches--play on a regular basis: trainer, career advisor, strategist, and performance appraiser. Featuring diagnostic exercises, worksheets, and a listing of resources, The Manager as Coach will help readers develop the qualities and skills to align individual and organizational goals and forge dynamic, productive relationships.
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