Coaching And Mentoring For Dummies: A Book About Training

By: George Purdy

Marty Brounstein’s "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" is an excellent addition to the Dummies line of self-help books that, despite their name, are smart choices for people seeking help with their lives. With coaching training a popular means of self improvement, the publisher has provided a handbook for people considering such training and for anyone already working as a personal coach.

At one time "coaching" was used in reference to acting coaches or sports coaches. These days it refers also to those people who assist in the development of professional skills and intellectual capabilities. With "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies," you can learn about the traits and strategies of an effective coach so you can guide your employees’ to higher performance levels and greater accomplishments.

Delegating as opposed to doing all of the work yourself, is one of the most important lessons which "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" teaches. A good manager has mastered delegation and knows how to get other to work hard, as well as how to perform well themselves. Critical in all of this is good communication.

Other methods which "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" teach are on how to motivate, so job satisfaction and productivity can be increased. Mentors are taught how to bring forth a response by asking questions, rather than by barking out an order, and also how to make performance reviews and evaluations more positive, and less stressful for everybody.

The book includes worksheets set up for use in planning and evaluation of each individual situation, whether used as is or customized to the particular situation. It also takes on sensitive issues in the workplace such as discrimination and diversity problems, along with the effect of the coaching process on workplace environment and psychology. The book also discusses ways to pick out special talents in individuals and ways to help them value and increase those talents, and ways to benefit therefrom.

Whether you have had formal training or not, you can benefit from "Coaching and Mentoring for Dummies" if you supervises or train other employees. Any mentor, regardless of experience level, will find this book a useful resource to handle issues that arise during mentoring and coaching. The information in the book is convenient and clearly presented. The book is very cheap, relative to the value of the knowledge it contains.

Coaching and mentoring for dummies is an excellent guidebook for trainers. It also serves as an excellent self-help guide for those taking coaching training. It stresses on using proper relegation through clearly communicated ideas and goals. It will help you increase productivity, efficiency, satisfaction, self-confidence and much more. Rather than giving diktats, it gives you actionable advices which are easy to apply. It also contains sheets for use as a planner and to show review the progress achieved. Sensitive issues like gender, race and other such things concerning the workplace are also dealt in this personal coach guidebook.

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George Purdy recently published some new articles on coaching. He's an established public speaker and writer on coaching. You'll find more tips and tricks to boost your knowledge at personal coaches.

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