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Summary
This book offers mentors and coaches a pragmatic approach to the process of mentoring. It gives practical guidance on how mentors and coaches can create the climate in which their clients can develop. It offers background information, thumbnail case studies challenging exercises and reflective practices that will assist both mentors and clients develop as a result of the ensuing conversations and experiences. It templates a draft contract with headings that will add focus, looks at the second meeting and beyond and the programme standards for a mentoring programme
Key Features
• Written by an experienced mentor in clear and easily understood language
• Aimed at mentors, coaches, clients and organisations
• A good background and overview to what mentoring is with guidance on practice and practical application
• Contains practical exercises for self development of you as a mentor
The Author
Peter Hill is the Managing Partner of CFM Consulting Ltd., a coaching and mentoring consultancy based in Dunblane in Scotland. He has developed coaches and mentors in the UK, US and Europe and currently teaches on the University of Strathclyde Post Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching and the University of Edinburgh MBA programmes. He has developed a reputation for enabling people to achieve greater things by coaching them in a pragmatic, inspirational and enthusiastic manner that achieves results. His first book “Concepts of Coaching” is a best seller for the Institute of Leadership & Management.(ILM) He is a qualified coach and a master practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a fellow of ILM and a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. He is also an affiliate member of the British Psychological Society.
Readership
The book is aimed at mentors, coaches, supervisors of mentors and coaches, human resource professionals, and management development consultants.
Contents
What is Mentoring – mentoring and how it differs from managing
Advantages of Mentoring –the features and benefits of mentoring.
Getting Started –The mentoring contract, before the first meeting, the second meeting and beyond, the mentoring process, Questionnaires – assessing your mentoring style, , and a toolkit for background information with clients
Assessing your Style - A unique way of evaluating CPD that dovetails into multiple objectives
Developing a Personal Vision –tips and guidance on developing a personal vision
EMCC Mentoring Programme Standards – some good guidelines as to exactly what mentoring programmes should cover.
Summary
This book offers coaches and mentors a pragmatic approach to their own and their clients continuing professional development. It gives practical guidance on how coaches and mentors can continue to build the capability of their clients by providing them with background information, signposts to web links, challenging exercises and reflective practices that will help them to learn from their experiences. It shows how to draft a continuing professional development plan that will make a real difference to raised self-awareness of both successful learning experiences and shortfalls.
Key Features
• Written by an experienced Coach in clear and easily understood language
• Aimed at coaches and mentors who want to take their clients to the next level in their development
•Chapters can be read as standalone guides to tools, techniques and exercises
•Enables the facilitation of development though both reflective practice and practical application
•Contains practical exercises for self development of clients
The Author
Peter Hill is the Managing Partner of CFM Consulting Ltd., a coaching and mentoring consultancy based in Dunblane in Scotland. He has developed coaches and mentors in the UK, US and Europe and currently teaches on the University of Strathclyde Post Graduate Certificate in Executive Coaching and the University of Edinburgh MBA programmes. He has developed a reputation for enabling people to achieve greater things by coaching them in a pragmatic, inspirational and enthusiastic manner that achieves results. His first book “Concepts of Coaching” is a best seller for the Institute of Leadership & Management.(ILM) He is a qualified coach and a master practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming, a fellow of ILM and a chartered member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. He is also an affiliate member of the British Psychological Society.
Readership
The book is aimed at coaches, mentors, supervisors of coaches and mentors, human resource professionals, and management development consultants.
Contents
Basic Principles of CPD – The principles & concepts of CPD, the key features and the benefits
Getting Started - how adults learn, the learning cycle, preferred learning styles and sources of learning.
Preparations – how to conduct a personal stock take, setting your objectives and defining the gap in such a way that you can objectively work towards eliminating the gap
Your Development Plan – Why have one, what to include in it and how to record it.
The Strategic Evaluation Loop© - A unique way of evaluating CPD that dovetails into multiple objectives
Recording your CPD – The learning log, ponder session, development review and records are all looked
Summary
Aimed at those just starting out on a journey as a coach or seasoned
professionals, this book is about developing your knowledge and
understanding of the emerging profession of coaching. Filled with
concepts and models for the coach, the book is an invaluable resource
to assist in their development covering the full spectrum from contracting
to evaluation. Its highly practical nature ensures the principles
and approaches it relates to are not only realistic, but effective.
It is also invaluable for HR professionals who are purchasing coaching
services as a guide to what they can expect and how to evaluate
the services they have bought. From a managerial perspective it
can be used to enhance the leadership skills that are so often in
short supply in today’s workplace.
Key Features
• It is written from a highly knowledgeable and well-respected
practitioner in the field of Coaching
• Draws on the author’s wide ranging practical experience
in the field of coaching and pioneering approach in the arena of
qualifications
• Provides practical and realistic approaches to Coaching
• Uses a real life model for evaluation that is transferable
• Has a “dip in” approach to reading
The Author
Peter Hill is the managing director of CFM Consulting Limited and
has been working as an executive coach for the past six years and
in the arena of corporate coaching for the past eight years. During
his ten years with the Industrial Society, latterly as Head of Coaching
and Mentoring, Peter’s project management skills and practical
approaches launched new initiatives, departments and transformed
organisational performance. As a qualified coach from the University
of Strathclyde, he is a regular contributor to the national press
and media in the UK. He is on the Advisory Board to the Institute
of Leadership and Management (ILM) in Scotland and is currently
assisting City & Guilds develop their coaching qualifications.
Readership
The book is aimed at Coaches and Mentors, Human Resource Professionals,
Directors, Managers, Team Leaders and Consultants.
Contents
Introduction – the context of coaching; coaching qualifications;
definition of coaching Setting up a coaching programme or culture
Basic skills – listening; questioning; assessing your style;
understanding practical learning styles; the catalytic toolkit
Getting started – the preparation of the coach; the coaching
contract; the inner game; developing relationships; the four pillars
of trust
Maintaining the coaching – GROW; the suggestion map; skill/will
matrix; the STOP tool; feedback; working with a metaphor; team coaching;
ethics in coaching; switching perspectives
Closing the coaching session – mapping for action; 3D model;
the rule of 3
Evaluating the coaching – system evaluation; bottom line benefits
CPD and supervision
Appendices - Coaching Competencies, Ethical Standards, Reading list,
ILM Qualifications mapping, SCQF outline
Publication: Pages: c 250 Size: 234 x 156mm
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| A Few Good Women
Jane White
Prentice Hall
ISBN: 0133189406
Price £24.99
Lessons from the trenches: twelve female executives who have successfully climbed the corporate ladder reveal how to shatter "the glass ceiling" and ascend into the ranks of upper management.
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| Coach to Coach: Business Lessons from the Locker Room
John Robinson
John Wiley & Sons 1996
ISBN: 0893842745
Price £16.50
Business Lessons from the Locker Room (Warren Bennis Executive Briefing Series)
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| Coach Yourself: Make Real Change in Your Life
Anthony Grant, Jane Green
Pearson Professional Education
ISBN: 1843040131
Price £15.00
Using a systematic approach and clear, concise language, the authors chart a course for individual self-actualization, demonstrating strategies for problem-solving, defining objectives and achieving them.
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| Coaching & Mentoring
Eric Parsloe & Monika Wray
Published 2000 by Kogan Page
ISBN: 0749431180
Price £16.99
The author helps readers to develop skills and build confidence in coaching and mentoring with the help of checklists, examples and supporting theory.
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| Coaching and Mentoring
Nigel MacLennan
Gower Publishing
ISBN: 0566075628
Price £45.00
Coaching/mentoring is the most effective approach to helping others achieve
optimum performance at work. This is a comprehensive manual of the best
methods known to promote successful performance. It covers all aspects of
the subject from basic skills to designing and implementing an
organizational coaching and mentoring system. The book introduces a
seven-stage model which managers should use to encourage skill development
among their staff.
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| Coaching for Leadership
Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons, Alyssa Freas
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 0787955175
Price £30.50
Today almost all managers and leaders are seeking information on coaching - what it is, what it can do, how to apply it. This book draws on these strands in a single, coherent framework. This guide should be useful for executives in the art of coaching which is easy to do but hard to get right.
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| Coaching for Peak Employee Performance : A practical guide to supporting employee development
Bill Foster, Karen R Seeker
Richard Chang Associates Inc US 1997
ISBN: 188355361X
Price £8.99
Managers and supervisors need to sharpen their coaching skills if they want their employees to achieve high performance. This guidebook details what those in charge can do to develop their staff and help them met, and even exceed, organizational expectations.
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| Coaching for Performance: People skills for professionals
Sir John Whitmore
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1996
ISBN: 1857881702
Price £10.99
This handbook helps readers learn the skills and the art of good coaching, and realize its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. It argues for using questions, rather than instructions and commands to generate prompt action and peak performance.
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| Coaching, Mentoring & Managing
Dr William Hendricks
Career Press US 1996
ISBN: 1564142434
Price £14.99
Breakthrough strategies to solve performance problems and build winning teams
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| Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others
James Flaherty
Butterworth Heinemann US 1998, reprinted 2000
ISBN: 0750699035
Price £14.99
A coaching tool which aims to enable the reader to become a business coach who can correct and self-generate their own innovations. It addresses the question: how do I contribute to someone's competence in a respectful, dignified and effective way?
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| Co-active Coaching: New skills for coaching people toward success in work and life
Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, Phil Sandahl
Davies-Black Publishing US 1998
ISBN: 0891061231
Price £36.95
Co-Active Coaching offers a comprehensive view of the practice of coaching and features instructive coaching examples, professional skill-building exercises, coaching tips and traps, coaching dialogues and a coach's toolkit containing worksheets, exercises and forms to use with clients.
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| Developing High Performance People
Barbara Mink, Oscar Mink, Keith Owen
Perseus Books Group 1992
ISBN: 0201563134
Price £18.50
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| Effective Coaching
Myles Downey
Cassell & Co
ISBN: 0752821083
Price £6.99
An introductory primer on the fundamentals of coaching in the business environment. Using a practical, entertaining approach, the author explores key models, tools and skills necessary to develop into an effective coach. Case studies are used throughout.
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| Evaluating Training Programs: The Four Levels
Donald L. Kirkpatrick
John Wiley & Sons 1998
ISBN: 1576750426
Price £25.99
This is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to evaluating training programmes within industry, government and academic institutions. It has been revised and updated for this second edition and includes new material and new case studies.
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| Everyone Needs a Mentor
David Clutterbuck
CIPD 1993
ISBN: 0852924615
Price £10.95
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| Executive Coaching with backbone and heart
Mary Beth O'Neill
ISBN: 0787950165
If you've been looking for sound direction on how to coach top executives, here it is. Mary Beth O'Neill outlines the dynamic approach to coaching leaders that she's developed over the course of a 20 year career. Her unique perspective and sage advice, backed by a specific four phase methodology, gives you the means to successfully manage the coach-client relationship and effect dramatic changes that ensure the business outcomes leaders want. It's a one-of-a-kind guide for executive coaches - both aspiring and established - that fills a long-standing gap in coaching literature.
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| Executive Coaching: a Purposeful Dialogue
Alison Carter
Institute for Employment Studies
ISBN: 1851843086
Price £19.95
This is a study into why UK organisations commission executive coaching on behalf of their senior managers and directors. Executive coaching is an import from the US and there are no widely recognised professional bodies or accreditation standards for executive coaches in the UK.
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| Feedback Toolkit: 16 Tools for better communication in the workplace
Rick Maurer
ISBN: 1563270560
Price £10.25
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| Get a Life Without Sacrificing Your Career: How to Make More Time for What's Really Important
Dianna Daniels Booher
McGraw Hill 1996
ISBN: 0070066477
Price £9.95
Aimed at people who no longer want to work 60 hours a week, this book explains how to make more room for personal pursuits by changing ways of thinking about time, becoming more productive during work, dispensing with mental and physical clutter and setting a more satisfactory pace.
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| Implementing Mentoring Schemes
Nadine Klasen, David Clutterbuck
Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750654309
Price £19.99
The application of mentoring in business has risen in recent years and more organizations than ever are seeking to utilize its power. "Implementing Mentoring Schemes" provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the design, implementation, evaluation and revitalization of mentoring.
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| Leading High Impact Teams: The Coach Approach to Peak Performance
Cynder Niemela
High Impact Publishing
ISBN: 0971088802
Price £18.06
In today's work world, a leader capable of galvanizing a team to produce superlative results is invaluable. This book shows new team leaders the way to avoid costly trial-and-error mistakes. It inspires seasoned team leaders to leverage the "Coach Approach" to make their team experiences lighter, more synergistic and infinitely more productive. Full of practical, step-by-step activities, real life stories and anecdotes to quickly apply, you'll learn what it takes to lead or coach a team to high impact. Cynder Niemela and Rachael Lewis, Executive Coaches with proven track records of success have helped leaders from Oracle Corporation, HP and Ernst & Young and hundreds of other major players. Now you can get the information and tactics you need to beat goals, improve processes and enjoy work on your team.
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| Learning Alliances
David Clutterbuck
Published 1998 by IPD
ISBN: 0852927495
Price £18.95
The first book to pull together coaching, counselling, mentoring snd other "helping to learn" styles into one practical behavioural model.
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| Masterful Coaching
Robert A Hargrove
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 0893842818
Price £30.50
A book full of coaching tools and techniques aimed at developing the coach as much as the client.
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| Mentoring Executives & Directors
David Clutterbuck, David Megginson
Butterworth, 1999
ISBN: 0750636955
Price £19.99
Examining director mentoring, this text looks at a series of structured interviews with directors and their mentors, helping to resolve the problem of how to sustain learning in people at the top. Company and individual cases across a spectrum of sector and company size are also included.
You can read the first chapter of this book in Adobe Acrobat format here.
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| Mentoring for Diversity
David Clutterbuck, Lisa Matthewman, Belle Rose Ragins
Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750648368
Price £25.00
This text addresses the issues of mentoring for diversity. It shows how mentoring can be used as a proactive part of equal opportunity policy, as well as demonstrating how diversity is of interest to companies wishing to ensure that they have an innovative and diverse workforce.
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| Mentoring in Action
David Megginson & David Clutterbuck
Kogan Page 1997
ISBN: 0749423943
Price £12.99
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| Smart Questions
Dorothy Leeds
Berkley Publishing Group
ISBN: 0425176592
Price £9.00
Called "a must" by Norman Vincent Peale, this definitive guide for managers
shows readers how to ask for the most from their staff and get it. This book
has been recommended by coach William Barron in our on-line Discussion
Forum.
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| Successful Woman's Guide to Working Smart: Ten Strengths That Matter Most
Caitlin Williams
Davies-Black Publishing
ISBN: 0891061568
Price £14.51
Williams brings to life the most important rules for women in the workplace including finding a niche, making the most of every situation, and being prepared for the unexpected.
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| Take yourself to the top
Laura Berman-Fortgang
Harper-Collins 1999
ISBN: 0722537719
Price £8.99
A trend in personal development is life coaching. It's somewhere between having a personal trainer and a therapist. In this guide the author acts as the reader's own personal life coach. She shares her secrets for getting out of a rut, learning how to go beyond "just getting by" and taking charge.
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| The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook
Dennis Kinlaw
McGraw Hill 1995
ISBN: 0070534438
Price £36.99
As part of the "ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook Series", this volume presents complete tool-kits and instructions for creating effective, personalized training programmes. This text concentrates on the skill of coaching. Surveys, games and role plays are covered in here with complete instructions on set-up, handling the activity and participant handouts. Full illustrations of training steps such as trainer openings, discussion questions and skill practices are also incorporated.
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| The Inner Game of Work
Tim Gallwey
Cassell & Co
ISBN: 1842030159
Price £18.99
Focusing on such often unaddresed "inner" obstacles as fear of failure and self doubt, the Inner Game concept has become an influential form of management development. Using this concept, this book provides individuals and companies with the skills they need to perform to their full potential.
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| The Manager as Coach and Mentor
Eric Parsloe
CIPD, 1999
ISBN: 0852928033
Price £5.95
The Manager as coach and mentor shows how and why coaching and mentoring are the simplest, most practical and cost-effective ways you can boost the performance of your staff.
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| The Mentoring Pocket Book
Geof Alred, Bob Garvey & Richard Smith
Management Pocketbooks
ISBN: 1870471563
Price £6.99
Companies are increasingly relying on formal mentoring to tie in with their continuous learning and development initiatives. This book examines how to prepare as a mentor, how to conduct mentoring sessions and how to maintain the relationship through the different stages of the training.
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| The New Alchemists
Charles Handy, Elizabeth Handy
Hutchinson, 1999
ISBN: 0091802156
Price £16.99
This work is an examination in words and pictures of the way particular individuals, like Anita Roddick (Body Shop), Tim Waterstone (Waterstones) or Charles Dunstone (Carphone Warehouse) have created businesses/careers from nothing but their own drive and talent.
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| The Tao of Coaching
Max Landsberg
Harper Collins 1997
ISBN: 0006388116
Price £7.99
Winner of the 1996 MCA Book Prize, this book is based on the programme developed by management consultancy McKinsey & Co, this work shows how to enhance workers' performance through "coaching". Step-by-step, a parable takes the reader through the different aspects of coaching, describing how to master the skills and implement them successfully.
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| The Team Coach
Donna Deeprose
McGraw Hill 1995
ISBN: 081447859X
Price £15.95
Recognising that supervisory roles have radically changed with the advent of self-directed work teams (SDWTs), this book turns old-style, command-and-control supervisors into team coaches, offering guidance on performing the diverse and demanding duties now expected of them.
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| Transform your LifeM
Carole Gaskell
HarperCollins
ISBN: 0007100787
Price £8.99
A guide to changing your life, whether you are restless, uncomfortable, dissatisfied or just plain bored. This book combines advice with step-by-step techniques to spring clean your life, connect with your true essence, and above all, how to celebrate and enjoy the eventual transformation.
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