UPDATE, January 2015: A revised edition of the HBR Guide to Coaching Employees is now available.
Harvard Business Press has just published the HBR Guide to Coaching Your Employees, and I'm proud to be one of the co-authors. My contributions include the book's introduction, Coaching Is Leading, as well as Giving Feedback that Sticks and Help People Help Themselves, on self-coaching (a topic I'll discuss at greater length in my forthcoming book.)
While I'm clearly not an objective reviewer, over the years I've found HBR's compilations to be tremendously valuable resources, and I believe this Guide lives up to that standard. HBR organized an talented lineup of contributors, and I feel honored to be among them. If you need proof, here's the Table of Contents:
HBR Guide to Coaching Your Employees
Introduction: Coaching is Leading by Ed Batista
Section 1: How to Coach Your Employees
1. Cultivate the Mind-Set and Skills to Coach Effectively by Candice Frankovelgia
2. Using Brain Science to Get the Best from Your People by Edward M. Hallowell, MD
3. You Need a Coaching Plan
4. Giving Feedback That Sticks by Ed Batista
5. Tailor Your Coaching to People’s Learning Styles by David A. Kolb and Kay Peterson
6. How to Coach People in 15 Minutes a Day by Daisy Wademan Dowling
7. Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap
8. Help People Help Themselves by Ed Batista
Section 2: How to Customize Your Coaching
9. The Young and the Clueless by Kerry A. Bunker, Kathy E. Kram, and Sharon Ting
10. Saving Your Rookie Managers from Themselves by Carol A. Walker
11. Coaching Your Stars, Steadies, and Strugglers by Jim Grinnell
Thanks to Tim Sullivan for asking me to get involved and to Lisa Burrell for her tremendous insights and patience as an editor. And thanks to my students and colleagues at Stanford and my clients in private practice--everything I've learned about coaching derives from my work with them, and I'm continually grateful for the opportunity to have worked alongside them.
