By Brian Cagneey
Proof positive that little tools can help you do a big job!
Growing people, developing leaders, building teams . . . this is the important work of leadership. Coaching is essential to this work. Tools are essential to coaching. Coaching: The 7 Laws Of Coaching is a great tool. Keep this tool in your leadership toolbox, you will want to return to it time and again.
As Cagney notes, "Coaching is the method for contributing to the development of people's natural abilities and skills and improving performance." (5) Coaching: The 7 Laws Of Coaching will help you develop the essential mindset for this task. As Cagney points out mindset and attitude makes all the difference.
Cagney will address the following (and more):
1. What coaching does: See page 7.
2. The difference between training, mentoring, and coaching.
3. Assessment: Assessing oneself as a coach and assessing the team.
4. Encouragement: The special ingredient that makes people work.
5. Accountability: How to do it.
Don't let the page count fool you. In this case, good things come in small packages. It is a package to which you will want to return to again and again.