Leading for Learning: How Managers Can Get Business Results through Developmental Coaching and Inspire Deep Employee Commitment

Managers must find time to learn, engage, build relationships, tap motivation, encourage development, and inspire employees to do their best work. The Developmental Coaching Model helps managers transform everyday business issues into meaningful, developmental coaching opportunities that increase employee engagement and achieve desired business results. This approach is especially important in a rapidly changing workplace and with pervasive employee disengagement.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 142 pages
Publication date: 09 October 2020
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

People do their best work when they are motivated. This may sound obvious, but while people managers instinctively agree with the centrality of motivation at work and its impact on employee engagement, their practices do not follow. With so much real work to do every day, how can managers also carve out time to learn, engage, build relationships, tap motivation, encourage development, and inspire?

The problem is a false dichotomy between the world of business and that of people development. What if managers were able to systematically transform everyday business issues into meaningful, developmental coaching opportunities with employees simultaneously? This proven coaching approach radically shifts conversations away from either-or propositions and uses an entirely different lens: transforming business challenges by connecting them directly to employee motivation to achieve the desired business result while dramatically increasing employee engagement. And all this comes none too soon as leaders must rethink the way they lead given the modern realities of organizational life. Among them:

A rapidly changing workplace and increasing uncertainty that requires a fundamental shift in the leaders approach, including the distribution of authority and the expectation that employees take responsibility for their own learning.

Pervasive and persistent employee disengagement, characterized by employees who no longer accept the organization's priorities at the expense of their own, where organizations that continue to dictate terms will find ongoing challenges with costly employee turnover and lack of engagement.

During the past decade, the Developmental Coaching Model has been taught across the globe engagement has been enthusiastically embraced.

Weight: 356g
Dimension: 178 x 251 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367534837