The Concise Coaching Handbook: How to Coach Yourself and Others to Get Business Results

Utilizing a ''coach approach'' with oneself and others enables quicker and more effective progress towards goals. This book identifies the crucial coaching qualities and actions to increase motivation, engagement, and performance. Through exercises and examples, the author demonstrates how to ask compelling questions, how to create effective action by constructing SMART goals, and how to hold yourself and others accountable. Additionally, she illustrates how presence and attitude, active listening, compelling questions, setting goals and accountabilities, and encouragement and feedback function in a coaching relationship. Drawing from neuroscience, case studies and personal experience, she shows how to use these specific techniques to create more fulfilling relationships and results. The Concise Coaching Handbook ends with three brief case studies of for-profit and non-profit organizations who have committed to creating a ''coaching culture'' and the benefits they''ve received.

Elizabeth Dickinson is a coach, speaker/presenter, and writer. She has coached or presented in over 40 for-profit and non-profit organizations, including Land O’Lakes and Performance Excellence Network. The Concise Coaching Handbook is her first non-fiction book. Education includes: B Ed Honors degree from Cambridge University; MA in psychology from Lesley University; life coaching certification from Adler Graduate School. As a former board member of the Minnesota Chapter of the International Coach Federation, she initiated the Prism award recognizing organizational coaching excellence at for-profits including Barr Engineering, Cargill and Pepsi as well as non-profits such as Better Futures Minnesota and Pregnancy Choices.