Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills

Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills
Patrick Forsyth


9780749452353


Published date: March 2008
Paperback
Part of the Creating Success series


Published With: The Sunday Times

Improve your Coaching and Training Skills is an accessible guide for busy managers who are responsible for developing and mentoring their staff, including organizing formal and informal training and coaching.

Staff development is a key management responsibility. Good people and good performance “ and hence powerful, effective development “ are vital to success in a fast-changing and competitive world.

Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills contains proven approaches and practical guidelines to help you develop your staff. Ideal for busy managers who don't have human resources support, it will help you to boost staff effectiveness through coaching and training.

Essential topics covered include: why development matters; on-the-job coaching; mentoring; developing a formal training method; conducting a training session; assessing on-going effectiveness.

Also containing tips on using exercises and role-plays, Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills is useful to those new to HR as well as hard-pressed managers wanting to get the most from people. The commonsense advice it contains will help you to motivate your staff and maximise their effectiveness “ and the results they achieve.
REVIEWS :

Patrick has a lucid and elegant style of writing which allows him to present information in a way that is organised, focused and easy to apply.�
Professional Marketing magazine



Paperback, 160 Pages, Dimensions 0 x 0 MM Language English.
CONTENTS INCLUDE :

1. Development: Route to Success

2. Development and Management Responsibility

3. The Development Task

4. On-the-job Coaching

5. Formal Training: Deciding Content and Method

6. Formal Training: Conducting a Session

7. Formal Training: The Power of Participation

8. Assessing Ongoing Effectiveness
About Authors
Patrick Forsyth

Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy, which specialises in training in various personal skills necessary to marketing, communications and management.

He is the author of many books, including Marketing Stripped Bare , Powerful Reports and Proposals, Successful Time Management , Getting a Top Jobin Marketing and Marketing

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