Coaching Solutions 2nd Edition: Practical Ways to Improve Performance in Education - Softcover

Thomas, Will; Smith, Alistair

9781855394407: Coaching Solutions 2nd Edition: Practical Ways to Improve Performance in Education

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855394405 ISBN 13: 9781855394407

Publisher: Continuum, 2009

Coaching is a proven method of improving individual and team performance: its success derives from an understanding that all meaningful progress is driven from within. Coaching Solutions offers practical tools to help individuals, teams and organizations secure the improvements they want.
The book is for:
* teachers who want a way of better understanding and motivating the hard-to-reach
* managers who want to help their team reclaim the agenda
* leaders who want an institutional focus that will bring energy to the system
* parents who have a reluctant youngster at home
Coaching Solutions contains sections on:
* What is coaching?
* How do you coach?
* Where do you begin with coaching?
* How could you develop a coaching organization?

It provides dialogues and case studies and cites evidence of success. There are examples of schools using coaching successfully to bring about change, together with masterclasses at the end of every chapter. Written in a comprehensive style, this book is your passport to progress.

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About the Author:

WILL THOMAS is the author of the Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn series, including The Black Hand, The Hellfire Conspiracy, The Limehouse Text, To Kingdom Come, and the Shamus and Barry award-nominated Some Danger Involved. He lives with his family in Oklahoma.

Review:

I would challenge anyone involved in education to resist exploring the power of coaching after reading this. (Elinor Wilde, Educational psychologist and coach)

"Thomas, a performance coach and trainer who directs educational coaching organizations in the UK, and Smith, a trainer in modern learning methods who also works in motivation, explain how coaching methods can be used in education. They detail what coaching is, how to coach, basic and advanced techniques, and benefits to schools, colleges, and universities, as well as aspects like communication improvement, the role of beliefs, using questions, differences from counseling and mentoring, coaching the reluctant, and self-development and management. This edition updates chapters and incorporates new evidence and case studies." -Eithne O'Leyne, BOOK NEWS, Inc.

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