A guide to finding and working with the right business coach
Business Coaching for Managers and Organizations:
Working with Coaches Who Make the Difference
By David E. Gray, PhD
You’re ready to select, hire and work with a professional coach. But there are so many types of coaches. And thousands of people provide coaching services. How do you navigate your way through the jungle? Start with Business Coaching for Managers and Organizations.
Whether you’re a manager or HR professional, this guide will help you find – and work with – the right business coach to benefit both individual managers and your organization as a whole.
Here is an effective, step-by-step plan for improving performance on a large-scale and getting the results and payoffs you desire. If you have a group, a group of groups or an entire organization that needs an intervention, you’ll find this book invaluable.
In this book for HR professionals, Dr. Bellingham focuses on how you can manage these critical components in the change process, elevate your strategic importance and personal positioning in the organization and contribute to the lasting success of the business.
A detailed and integrated approach to improving an academic unit
Leadership for Academic Units
A Performance Improvement Model for Department Chairs, Deans, and Academic Vice Presidents (and those who aspire to be)
By William Swart, PhD
In this illuminating guide for academic leaders and those aspiring to be, Dr. William Swart offers insightful advice on how to lead academic departments and divisions on a journey of continuous performance improvement. If you’re interested in positive change and you’re not afraid of conflict, this text presents a solid beginning point.
One of the first things to go on a team is communication. When members fail to communicate with each other, and the team fails to communicate with stakeholders, you've got problems. Learn how to identify the sources of communication breakdown, admit there is a problem, send effective messages, be an active listener, get good communication going by asking questions, set ground rules for effective communication, and more.
In Volume VI of The Parker Team Series, Team Empowerment: 20 Ways to Get There, author Glenn Parker explains the in-and-outs of what exactly an empowered team is or is not, the risks and benefits of empowered teams, and how to build and maintain an empowered team.
In Volume 3 of The Parker Team Series we learn that “Effective leadership is effective leadership. Some universal truths cut across all types of teams… Effective leaders have a clear vision and are able to communicate that vision… They develop a sense of urgency about the team’s work, involve team members in goal-setting and decision-making, and foster a climate of openness and honesty. People want to work with them…”
