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    17 Ways to Teach Managers how to Coach

    Last updated on Apr 7, 2014 by Dan McCarthy · This post may contain affiliate links

     
    Welcome to the April 2014 edition of the Leadership
    Development Carnival!

    For this month’s Carnival, I asked our community of
    leadership development experts the following question:

    “Wouldn't it be great
    if we could teach managers how to coach?
    What one book, website, or other resource would you recommend to a busy
    yet motivated manager who wants to learn how to be a better coach?”

    The following is a collection of their responses. Bookmark
    it, print it, and share it with others. Pick one resource that you didn’t know
    about and review it yourself. We can all learn something new when it comes to
    the art and science of coaching.


    Thank-you to all that contributed to this list! Please take
    a moment to visit their blogs, as they are all outstanding writers and should
    be a part of your regular leadership development reading.

    The list is not ranked – they are in order of submission,
    first to last:

    1. “The book I recommend for leaders on the art and science
    of coaching is 
    The Coaching Manager by Hunt and Weintraub”, writes Beth Armknecht Miller, CEO of Executive Velocity,
     “This book provides a great process
    for leaders who want to become effective coaches in their organizations with
    real world examples and should be a “go to” guide for all leaders.”

    2. S. Chris Edmonds, from Driving Results
    Through Culture
      recommends his March ’12 blog post titled, “Coaching - Not Conversion,” because “holding others accountable requires a series of coaching conversations
    to set the context for the desired behavior and gain commitment from that
    player to change their behavior. One discussion typically won’t convert people
    to desired ways - it takes coaching.”

    3. Jim Taggart of ChangingWinds offers up a dynamite book on mentoring: “Of all the books I’ve read on coaching and
    mentoring over the years, the one that stands out for me is
    Chip Bell’s Managers asMentors: Building Partnerships for Learning. Dating back to 1996
    when it was first published (with subsequent updates) Bell’s book, while
    practical, also has a philosophical underpinning. Bell uses his SAGE
    concept to explain the importance of learning how to effectively mentor. In
    essence, the mentor is a sage, one who helps guide and teach another
    individual. As Bell states in the opening section: “This book is about
    power-free facilitation of learning.”

     4. Tanmay Vora from QAspire recommends this interview with Marshall Goldsmith and Chip R. Bell on the art
    of effective mentoring
    . "I
    interviewed Marshall Goldsmith and Chip R. Bell on Topic: The Art of Effective
    Mentoring. Their interview is a fantastic resource for leaders to clarify the
    foundation of coaching and mentoring. Mentoring
    means starting where the protégé is, not where the mentor wants him or her to
    be."

    5. Joan Kofodimos from Anyone Can Lead recommendations Biggest Coaching Mistakes Managers Make. “I find that managers have many
    misconceptions about what it means to coach. In addition to teaching managers
    "how to," we can also help by clarifying "how not to"
    coach.”

    6. Michael VanDervort,
    from The Human Race Horses Blog recommends the Spiritual Workout website.
     "It's an interesting website
    with some creative workplace ideas, and well worth checking out."


    7. Jon Mertz, from Thin Difference,
    recommends the book
     Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters by Richard
    Rumelt
    . "Strategy development and execution are key elements in
    leadership and will inevitably arise in conversations with managers and other
    leaders. This book highlights what makes a good strategy work and what dooms a
    strategy."

    8. Mary Jo Asmus recommends
    her own program: “
    Aspire Collaborative Services has taught
    hundreds of individual and groups/teams of managers to coach others with a
    hands-on, real-world program taught by seasoned executive coaches called
    Coaching for Breakthrough
    Performance
    .

    9. Tim Milburn,
    from Lifelong Leaders,
    recommends the book
    Coaching for Leadership, edited by Marshall Goldsmith,
    Laurence Lyons, & Sarah McArthur (3rd Edition). "It is a fantastic
    collection of articles by some of the best executive coaches out there. It
    helped me understand different coaching styles and best practices within this
    ever-expanding field of coaching."


    10. Randy Conley, from Leading with Trust,
    recommends the website
    CoachWooden.com. “John Wooden, the legendary basketball
    coach at UCLA, was more than just a basketball coach. His coaching, teaching,
    and leadership principles can be applied to any leader, manager, or individual
    contributor seeking to achieve their maximum potential.”


    11. Jim
    Concelman,
    from Development Dimensions International’s
    Talent Management intelligence just wrote an article on this topic titled,  The Problem You May Not Know You Have: Your Experienced Leaders
    Could Be Ineffective Coaches
    . In it he shares, “Experience can teach
    many things, but experience alone cannot teach leaders how to be good coaches.
    Learn what separates the "great" from the "mediocre."


    12. Robyn McLeod,
    from 
    The Thoughtful Leaders
    Blog
    , recommends the book, Power
    Questions
    , by Andrew Sobel and Jerold Panas. “This book offers insight
    to how asking the right questions can strengthen relationships, shift
    perspectives, and open the door to developing others. 
    Questions are an essential part of any coach’s
    toolkit and a manager who can developing great asking skills is well-positioned
    to coach others.”


    13. John Hunter from Curious Cat Management Improvement Blog suggests The Leader's Handbook by Peter Scholtes , “not due to specific advice on coaching but in order to
    gain insight into how to view the results of complex human systems without
    leaping to false conclusions.  Often I think coaching mistakes are made
    because we do things like select those to coach based on what we call
    "performance" but is really just random variation viewed through our
    desire to find patterns (and assign specific causes where they don't exist).
     The book is what I would use to guide the coaching - using it as the
    textbook to improve their management and leadership knowledge and practice.”


    14. Jill Malleck
    from Epiphany at Work
    recommends the book
     Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall
    B. Rosenberg. “This book gives managers the tools to communicate more
    authentically and with both gentleness and directness. I especially like the
    pieces on observing without evaluation, identifying and expressing feelings
    (with a list of feeling words) and making direct requests.”


    15. Anna Farmery from
    The Engaging Brand recommends the book Brief by Joe McCormack. "I read many books for The Engaging Brand podcast and
    therefore to choose only one is extremely difficult. I have chosen Brief
    because of the essence of the message - brevity can be so much more powerful
    for leaders".


    16. Wally Bock from
    Three Star Leadership
    recommends the post
    Coaching and the 21st Century Leader. “Helping team members grow and develop
    will become a more and more important part of your job. Whether you call that
    mentoring or coaching, there are skills to learn and practice.”


    17. Dan McCarthy,
    from 
    Great Leadership, recommends the book Effective Coaching by Myles Downey. "While I've read a lot of books on
    coaching, this one is the one that I've used the most. It's straightforward,
    practical, and loaded with tips and tools".


    Do you have a favorite coaching resource that's not on the list? Please add it as a comment.

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