Coaching Has Emerged As The Key To Business Success In The 21st Century, And Looks Set To Be A Key Leadership Skill For Decades To Come.

DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c46917) has announced the addition of "Coaching at Work: Powering your Team with Awareness, Responsibility and Trust" to their offering.

Coaching has emerged as the key to business success in the 21st Century, and looks set to be a key leadership skill for decades to come. Focusing on the Ten Laws of Coaching (If you treat people as small, small is where they'll stay; we need performance, learning, and enjoyment, but we must keep them balanced; learning is easier than being taught, and more), Coaching at Work offers an up-to-date synthesis of many disparate ideas on the applications of coaching in the workplace.

Coaching, as explored in this book, is a process of raising awareness, generating responsibility and building trust. The real skills of coaching are asking the right questions and listening to the responses. Rooted in the inner game approach of Tim Gallwey (there's always an inner game being played in the mind, and your awareness of it can make the difference between success and failure in the outer game you're playing), Coaching at Work offers an up-to-date synthesis of many disparate ideas on the applications of coaching in the workplace. At the books heart are the Ten Laws of Coaching:

* If you treat people as small, small is where they will stay.

* We need performance, learning and enjoyment, but we must keep them balanced.

* Learning is easier than being taught.

* The higher the need for performance, the higher the need for learning and enjoyment.

* Your team view you as their coach, whether you like it or not.

* There is no responsibility without choice, no choice without ownership, and no ownership without involvement.

* The success of your coaching is proportional to the level of trust you can establish.

* Curiosity is more useful than judgement.

* Coaching should be driven by demand, not supply.

* As a coach you'll need to listen, ask questions and think, but you cannot do all three effectively at the same time In our changing times, an ability to coach and get results through people is the single biggest determinant of management success. So if you're a manager, HR professional, team leader or anyone else with responsibility for motivating and inspiring others, then it's time you woke up to the fact that you're also a coach. Coaching skills will be a key source of career advantage for years to come, and the sooner you learn and benefit from them the more effective you will become.

Matt Somers has more than two decades of workplace experience and has taught coaching skills in multinationals and micro-businesses alike. For him, coaching is all about asking the right questions and listening carefully to the answers. Now, in Coaching at Work, he sets out a proven process of raising awareness, generating responsibility and building trust to enable you become a more effective coach. You'll find a wealth of immediately actionable ideas, all of which have been developed in a work context to help you produce rapid, sustainable results.

Anyone who must achieve results through other people is a coach.

Your people know it. Do you?

About the author

Matt Somers is a coaching practitioner of many years' experience. In 1999, he founded Peak, and has since worked with a host of clients throughout the UK and Europe, developing team coaching interventions for organisations as diverse as Toyota Europe, British Bakeries and the City of Edinburgh Council.

Matt understands that the majority of individuals are working with their true potential locked away. He believes that coaching provides a simple yet elegant key to this lock, and that releasing potential in this way could transform the performance of all organizations. Peak's experience has shown that, because it is both performance-focused and performer-centred, coaching represents the single most effective way of developing high performing teams.

Matt is a regular speaker, a Fellow of the CIPD and the author of many important articles on coaching. He is the author of Coaching in a Week (2002).

Topics Covered:

* How to coach

* How to apply coaching

* How to implement coaching.

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