A revised edition of the HBR Guide to Coaching Employees is now available, and although I'm hardly an objective critic I think it's a substantial improvement on the original.
I wrote the Introduction, Why Coach?, as well as Giving Feedback that Sticks and Help People Help Themselves, on self-coaching, and I'm really proud to be associated with this volume.
The most obvious change is a more compact, reader-friendly format (5" x 9"), but there a number of revisions to the contents as well:
INTRODUCTION: Why Coach? by Ed Batista
SECTION 1: PREPARING TO COACH YOUR EMPLOYEES
1. Shift Your Thinking to Coach Effectively by Candice Frankovelgia
2. Set the State to Stimulate Growth by Edward M. Hallowell, MD
3. Earn Your Employees' Trust by Jim Dougherty
SECTION 2: COACHING YOUR EMPLOYEES
4. Holding a Coaching Session by Amy Jen Su
5. Following Up After a Coaching Session by Pam Krulitz and Nina Bowman
6. Giving Feedback That Sticks by Ed Batista
7. Enlist Knowledge Coaches by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap
8. Coaching Effectively in Less Time by Daisy Wademan Dowling
9. Help People Help Themselves by Ed Batista
10. Avoid Common Coaching Mistakes by Muriel Maignan Wilkins
SECTION 3: CUSTOMIZE YOUR COACHING
11. Tailor Your Coaching to People's Learning Styles
by David A. Kolb and Kay Peterson
12. Coaching Your Stars, Steadies, and Strugglers by Jim Grinnell
13. Coaching Your Rookie Managers by Carol A. Walker
14. Coaching Rising Managers to Emotional Maturity by Kerry A. Bunker, Kathy E. Kram, and Sharon Ting
15. Coaching Teams by J. Richard Hackman
Thanks to Ania Wieckowski, editor of the current edition, Lisa Burrell, editor of the original edition, and Tim Sullivan, who asked me to get involved in the first place.
Thanks to my colleagues at Stanford: Andrea Corney, Carole Robin, Chris McCanna, Collins Dobbs, Gary Dexter, Hugh Keelan, John Cronkite, Lara Tiedens, Ricki Frankel, Scott Bristol, and Yifat Sharabi-Levine.
Thanks to my coach, mentor, and fairy godmother Mary Ann Huckabay.
And thanks to my MBA students and my clients in private practice, who have taught me more than anyone.
