Business Coaching and Mentoring For Dummies

Don’t fall behind—Coach your business toward success!

Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies explores effective coaching strategies that guide you in coaching and mentoring your colleagues. With insight into key coaching concepts and an impressive range of tools, this easy-to-use resource helps you transform your team—and yourself in the process! Written from the perspective of a business coach, this comprehensive book explores the practical coaching skill set, tools, and techniques that will help you along your way, and explains how to identify who to coach, what to coach, how to coach, and when to coach. Whether you have experience in a coaching and mentoring role or you’re new to the coaching game, this is a valuable must-have resource.

The right approach to business coaching can take your company from good to great—it can also improve employee satisfaction, employee loyalty, team morale, and your bottom line. The trick is to approach business coaching in a way that is effective and flexible, ensuring that you achieve results while meeting the unique needs of your team. This comprehensive text will help you:

• Understand the foundational concepts of business coaching and mentoring
• Discover how proper coaching and mentoring methods can help get a business on the right track
• Identify and leverage tools to develop your business leadership mindset
• Create a successful personal and business identity with the support and guidance of a coach

Business Coaching & Mentoring For Dummies is an essential resource for business owners, business leaders, coaches, and mentors who want to take their skills to the next level.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started with Business Coaching and Mentoring
Chapter 1: Navigating the World of Coaching and Mentoring
Chapter 2: Presenting a Compelling Case for Coaching and Mentoring
Chapter 3: Assessing Clients’ Needs before Coaching
Chapter 4: Developing the Skills and Knowledge Base of a Coach and Mentor

Part II: Coaching and Mentoring to Get a Business on the Right Track
Chapter 5: Coaching Clients through Their Blind Spots
Chapter 6: Telling a Compelling Story in Business
Chapter 7: Mentoring to Assess Business without Rose-tinted Spectacles
Chapter 8: Developing Vision, Mission and Values Using Simple Coaching Methods
Chapter 9: Coaching to Transform Visions into Workable Plans

Part III: Tools to Develop the Business Leader’s Mind-set
Chapter 10: Managing the Inner World of Thoughts and Emotions
Chapter 11: Helping Leaders Recognise ‘I Did It My Way’ Isn’t the Best Epitaph
Chapter 12: Mentoring for Personal Success and Empowering Leadership

Part IV: Creating a Successful Business Identity with the Support of a Coach
Chapter 13: Developing the Brand of You
Chapter 14: Developing Relationships at All Levels
Chapter 15: Coaching to Help Business Engage, Inform and Influence

Part V: The Part of Tens
Chapter 16: Ten or So Online Resources to Boost Coaching and Mentoring Effectiveness
Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Overcome Objections and Change Opinions
Chapter 18: Ten Tips for Leaders Who Coach or Mentor People in Business
Chapter 19: Ten Questions to Keep a Business on Track