A powerful new coaching method from Chicken Soup for the Soul co-creator Jack Canfield!“At the heart of a great coach is a firm belief that each player is a uniquely valuable individual with distinct giftedness and potential for greatness.”That’s the premise behind this brilliant empowering guide from Jack Canfield, coauthor of the 125 million-copy-selling Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and legendary global leadership development guru and CEO Dr. Peter Chee.Combining time-tested principles of exemplary coaches with the latest disruptive techniques used by the world’s top performing leaders, this step-by-step playbook shows you how to nurture—in yourself and others—the three essential requirements of coaching excellence:1. HEART: The Coaching Principles (TCP) unveils the secret to life impacting values, beliefs, and philosophies that permeate all aspects of great coaching.2. MIND: The Situational Coaching Model (SCM) unleashes the genius of a coach to apply the right combination of crucial paradigms in any given coaching challenge.3. ENERGY: The Achievers Coaching Techniques (ACT) equips you with proven methods that enable you to deliver breakthrough results in coaching.Coaching for Breakthrough Success is packed with stirring personal stories, life changing case studies, crucial coaching conversations, exemplary coaching questions, and ready-touse tools that equip you to achieve professional mastery in coaching.This practical manual guides you through the top 30 principles every coach needs to succeed. You’ll learn the six paradigms of Situational Coaching, the ultimate power of Achievers Coaching Techniques, and the tried-and-true secret to making impossible dreams possible.All you need to lead your team to victory is heart, mind, energy—and Coaching for BreakthroughSuccess.
Turn mentoring into PROFITSThere’s no doubt that the concept of workplace mentoring is a hot-button issue facing management today. With managers under extraordinary pressure to cut costs, streamline operations, and increase productivity, the role of mentors has become more critical than ever—particularly since studies show leaders who mentor get promoted faster and earn significantly more than those who don’t.But as with any growing workplace trend, questions remain about how to utilize mentoring so you get tangible and profitable results. This book, from two of the world’s foremost experts on business learning and employee development, answers those questions.Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader breaks down the essentials of mentoring, and shows you how to take advantage of this valuable new workplace dynamic. You’ll learn:The smartest way to incorporate mentoring into your day-to-day leadership roleThe fastest way to equip, inspire, and motivate your staff The differences between mentoring, coaching, and teachingHow you as a leader can rate the mentors in your office – and assess the progress of mentees Using case studies, tools, and impactful learning concepts, the authors show you how to use mentoring’s “core skills” to create a winning approach tailored to your own style, be it the “reflective mentor,” the “storytelling mentor,” or “the example-based mentor.” The book also features several appendices and FAQs, handouts, and worksheets to gauge competencies among mentors and mentees, and a blueprint with steps to set up one’s own companywide program. As today’s biggest industry leaders continue to recognize the profound effect mentoring has on performance and profitability, there’s never been a better time to put this book’s essential tools to work for you.
Master the 12 disciplines of powerful leadership and lead your organization to greatnessWe've all heard the phrase "born leader." Leadership experts Brian Tracy and Dr. Peter Chee are here to debunk the myth that you either have it or you don't. That leadership is a talent bestowed on some and not on others. That in order to lead effectively, you have to have it in your genes.The authors assert that great leaders are made, not born. Everyone has the ability to shape himself or herself into the kind of person who enables and uplifts others to reach their highest potential--and in 12 Disciplines of Leadership Excellence, they reveal exactly how to achieve it.It all starts with discipline. In this groundbreaking book, the authors break down great leadership into 12 disciplines, including:Clarity . . . about who you are, where you are going, and how to get thereControl . . . build and bolster your sense of personal responsibility and self-masteryCharacter . . . dedicate yourself to passionately build trust with honesty and integrityCompetence . . . commit to constant never-ending improvement and learningCaring . . . because when you care, your people care in building great working relationshipsCourage . . . moving out of your comfort zone to embrace change and make tough decisionsOne at a time. Don't try to take on too much at once. Choose a discipline and live it until it becomes a habit of excellence. Then move to the next one. It will take time--but all life-improving endeavors do.Read this practical, inspirational guide and every day you will take one more step to becoming a highly effective leader.
Many organizations have taken steps to address the perceived talent shortages stemming from the pending wave of baby-boomers' retirements. But few organizations have been successful in making the transition from strategic-level talent reviews to integrating talent management successfully into the daily work of corporate leaders. The challenge today is pushing talent management beyond just a buzzword to become a key effort to be managed on a daily basis and at all levels of organizations. This book is intended to help meet that need and that challenge. This book is a powerful resource which serves as a manual blueprint guide book and toolkit for leaders to achieve sustainable results and growth through people. There is great emphasis on high potential talents and the best performers that contribute the most to the success of the organization. It goes beyond thinking strategically on talent management. It is a tactical and practical resource that enables leaders to be effective in recruiting developing motivating and retaining the best people and to embed this work in their daily agenda in order to become truly effective leaders with the rights habits. Many books have been written about talent management and related subjects such as succession planning succession management workforce planning and human capital management. These books usually focus on the strategic side of talent management and are intended for readers dealing in human resource management. This book however focuses on the practical side—that is the day-to-day work—and what leaders should do as a seamless part of their daily work to attract retain develop and manage talented people. A key notable feature is that the authors will feature stories and cases of famous leaders including those in the Human Resource field. This book is about a leader’s daily responsibilities and the role he/she plays as a leader in talent management. Its focus is on the tactical issues of talent management—having to do with what happens every day—rather than strategic issues about talent management. It also describes how a leader should groom his/her replacement and how to recognize the potential for future greatness when people have not shown it yet. Included in the book are practical recruiting and selection techniques that a leader can use to support talent management; A segment in the book describes how to manage high potential and high professional workers and how to retain talent. The book tells about how a leader should set an example for his/her workers through self-development. There are answers to some frequently-asked questions about talent management and a daily calendar for leaders to use in planning for efforts to manage and develop talent. Throughout this book practical tips have been included for readers. This book is recommended for corporate leaders at all levels including C-suite executives middle management and front-line professionals.
