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Coaching Winners Book |
Action-Based Development
Because of rapid change in the workplace, leaders and employees need to be constantly learning and developing new skills. Without continuous on-the-job learning, skills quickly become obsolete. Coaching Winners: A Coaching & Development Guide is a toolkit for leadership and employee development. It provides specific, action-based learning recommendations in a step-by-step format. It is unique in that all of its development activities follow action-based principles rather than reflective thinking, which is commonly used for development.
What is it?
Coaching Winners assists managers, coaches, mentors, and employees in identifying action-based development activities that help increase an individual’s performance, capability and career potential. It:
- Provides concrete, step-by-step suggestions for activities that develop and hone an individual’s skills.
- Enables employees to take responsibility for their own development by providing clear guidance.
- Helps employees create a focused development plan.
Why use it?
Coaching Winners is used by:
- Managers to support their own personal development.
- Managers to provide guidance to subordinates in their development.
- Coaches and Mentors to provide suggestions and guidance to others.
- Employees to search for ideas that support their long-term career goals.
What are its components?
Coaching Winners includes:
- Competency Model. A broad-based model that is relevant for a wide range of jobs and organizations. It provides over 300 examples of highly effective and less effective behaviors.
- Development Suggestions. Over 250 high-impact step-by-step development actions organized by the 23 competencies.
- Development Action Plan. A form for detailing an individual’s specific plan of action and tracking progress.
What are the Benefits?
Key benefits of Coaching Winners include the fact that it:
- Substantially reduces training expenses, because development is accomplished on the job.
- Enables managers to provide high-impact recommendations by simply referring to an easy-to-use guide.
- Enables employees to take greater responsibility for their personal development.
- Helps assure that employees have the right skills for the organization’s evolving skill requirements.
- Leads to improved employee and organizational performance.