Behavioral Coaching How To Build Sustainable Personal & Organizational Strength

Coaching people is excellent "position" insurance. People develop faster, perform better and stay on a stronger career track when they participate in coaching. Coaching is now recognized as a vital change and learning tool by both small and large organizations, and by individuals at all levels. This groundbreaking new text introduces for the first time a comprehensive scientific model of practice. The book draws on existing validated behavioral change practices and sets them in an important new coaching framework. Behavioral Coaching is essential reading for any student or practitioner of coaching. You will find valuable information, not only on how to apply the principles and skills of behavioral coaching to achieve meaningful, sustainable and measurable outcomes, but also how to develop a positive coaching philosophy. This resource text is filled with case studies, summaries and illustrations. As organizational and personal coaching strive toward professionalism, they are dependent upon their ability to identify a body of scientific behavioral knowledge, practices, skills and values to further their development and establish boundaries. This practice-oriented, how-to text is an important contribution to this end.