Coaching and Mentoring: Practical Conversations to Improve Learning

Front Cover
Kogan Page Publishers, Mar 3, 2009 - Business & Economics - 224 pages
Coaching and Mentoring examines how to create conversations which encourage personal development; exploring the ways in which we can interact to help support and improve performance. The second edition of this highly successful book has been radically updated to reflect recent dramatic changes in this important area. The authors demonstrate how important it is to relate theoretical models to specific situations in order to gain real practical benefits. This edition includes new chapters on the awareness of individual differences as well as a review of the models used by coaches and mentors. The book provides a complete resource for those who want to help and support people to learn more effectively.
 

Contents

Introduction and acknowledgements
1
Chapter 1 From marginal to mainstream
3
Chapter 2 Models of coaching and mentoring
19
Chapter 3 Community mentors and lifecoaching
38
Chapter 4 Helping people to learn how to learn
61
Chapter 5 Awareness of individual differences
93
Chapter 6 Feedback that builds confidence and success
114
Chapter 7 Observant listening
133
Chapter 8 Questioning
148
Chapter 9 An industry or a maturing profession?
176
Historical definitions
197
References
201
Index
204
Copyright

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2009)

Eric Parsloe is the Chairman and founder of The Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring and an experienced international executive coach-mentor. Melville Leedham is a coach-mentor and lecturer and leads the Research and Best Practice Group at the Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring.

Bibliographic information