Performance Coaching For Dummies® by Gladeana McMahon and Averil Leimon

Published by Wiley, March 08

Expert advice to help you unlock potential and achieve your goals...

Performance Coaching uses a wide range of practical tools and techniques to facilitate development, learning, and ultimately personal and professional success. Whether you want to motivate a team at work or boost your own individual performance, Perfomance Coaching For Dummies walks you step-by-step through the basics of Performance Coaching and shows you how to use it effectively to unlock potential, overcome challenges, maximise performance, and succeed in all areas of life.

Discover how to:

• Build a repertoire of advanced coaching skills
• Give positive feedback and constructive criticism
• Engage others effectively
• Consider the impact of body language and listening skills
• Manage organisational challenges and deal with problems effectively

About the authors:
Gladeana McMahon has been listed as one of the UK’s top ten coaches by the Independent on Sunday and Sunday Observer. She has provided therapy and coaching to politicians, celebrities, senior business people and those in the media. She is an internationally published author of self-help and academic books and a Fellow and Vice President of the Association for Coaching and a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, Royal Society of Arts and Institute for Management Studies. Gladeana is also Co-Director of the Centre for Stress Management and Centre for Coaching and is an Honorary Visiting Lecturer in the Psychology Department of the University of East London.

Averil Leimon was recently chosen as one of the UK's Top 10 coaches by the Independent on Sunday and is one of the first UK-based psychologists qualified in the academic field of Positive Psychology. She is a no-nonsense senior coach who has transformed individuals and teams over 20 years using her unique blend of clinical psychology and business insight. She was a founding partner of Plus Consulting, a firm specialising in transforming performance through better self and people management and her clients have included Polaroid, HP, Unilever and Reuters. She is a major contributor of psychological insight to radio, newspapers, magazines and television. Averil is currently joint editor of The Essential Coaching Series- a definitive series, including Essential Business Coaching.

Paperback Original; £15.99/22.40 EUR; ISBN: 978-0-470-51748-2

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