Stop Managing, Start Coaching!: How Performance Coaching Can Enhance Commitment and Improve Productivity

Stop Managing, Start Coaching! highlights the critical skill of performance coaching-demonstrating how managers can balance the roles of trainer, mentor, career coach, and confronter to improve productivity in the workplace. This pioneering guide shows how to: develop a practical and cost-effective human resource strategy and evaluate its effects on performance improvement; reinforce positive work traits through reward strategies; master and practice the art of employee ``self-esteeming''--the next step beyond employee empowerment.