Essays on Coaching

There are various leadership styles that are adopted by the leaders depending upon the type of work and nature of business. Among the different leadership style, one is coaching in which the leaders are required to improve the performance and improve the existing capabilities of workers. The leader as coach helps their subordinate to increase their skills, building strong bench mark and providing them lots of guidance throughout the task or activities. This type of leadership style is most successful when the subordinates are more agreeable, experienced and responsible. Moreover, the coaching style of leadership helps to create positive

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Although managers are expected to have great technical, this does not mean their technical capabilities can ensure them a promotion into the ranks of management. This is so because there are other factors to be considered besides technical skill such as the usefulness of the coworkers and the coaching. The coaching done on managers ensure that the relevant resources are available to workers and assist helps in identifying an action plan to solve performance issues. The coaching will facilitate technical skills that managers can use to improve their performance problems.
The coaching opportunity provided a problem solving and performance

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In the recent years, coaching and mentoring techniques have become integral elements of the modern social reality. These activities are considered to be effective tools of professional as well as personal development, so highly valued by the today’s workforce.
High-quality coaching and mentoring serve to enhance motivation, productivity, morale, and provide strong emotional support for the needs of individuals, especially in case organisational change initiatives are being pursued. Through the implementation of such practices, both the organisation and the employee tend to benefit tremendously. Coaching and mentoring are both closely connected with the concept of reflective learning, which

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Mastering the Skill of a Comfortable Coaching/Mentoring Style

The skill of mastering a comfortable coaching and/or mentoring style is not so difficult for an effective leader. As such, the leader should remind himself of his “absolute absolutes” for effective leadership and professional effectiveness (1) Leadership rooted in humility; (2) Purpose that extends its influence over others; (3) Strategy secured in values and purpose; (4) People – they are your team; (5) Measure – validate what is true; (6) Empower – teach people to do this for themselves; (7) Reward – acknowledge, praise, and respect; (8) Anticipate – be prepared for the next step; (9) Navigate – goes hand in hand with anticipate – be

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Proposal

Use of Health Coaching tools and techniques to work with middle aged women at the weight loss boot camp and nutritional counseling center, to achieve positive and permanent weight loss results.

Problem and Solution

A known fact is that after certain age women have a harder time losing weight, mostly middle aged women. Approximately two-thirds of women gain weight or have a hard time maintaining their desired weight and losing weight becomes almost impossible. One of the main culprits is the changes in hormones that have a direct effect on appetite, metabolism, and fat storages (Stradler, 2014).
Other statistics indicate that 67%

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Introduction

Creating overall viable plan for the development of the company requires thorough consideration of the peculiarities of business, strategy-friendly organizational structure and the ways to enhance employees’ engagement level, as well as proper management tools. For the purposes of this assignment I will research into above-mentioned issues with respect to elaborating on the overall business strategy for the enterprise under study. To make the discussion more practical I will view the organization as a problem-solving mechanism (Coperrider&Srivastva 149), and identify issues and the way to solve them for each of the questions of the case study

Organization structure

The business under

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It is now recognized that new teachers need mentors to help them transition from the classroom and student teaching experiences to the professional role of teachers and their new responsibilities. Whereas during their training student teachers were supported and forgiven for lapses or errors while under the supervision of a senior teacher, now these new teachers are required to take both the praise and criticism of parents, principals and superintendents. In addition, there has been a recently developed movement in the U.S. of teaching based on standardized testing to insure that each grade learns the same material no matter

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The article entitled “Performance management is broken” written by Nabaum, Barry and Garr was published online through the official website of Deloitte University Press. The authors discussed relevant issues pertaining to current performance management concerns and practices applied by contemporary organizations. As asserted, the traditional method of rating employees according to pre-defined standards and ranking them in comparison with other colleagues were deemed broken and ineffective. An innovative and more appropriate approach was noted in terms of applying continuous coaching and focusing on training and development for professional growth.
The information disclosed in the article illustrates the topic on

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Caring for the sick is the core of nursing. As a matter of fact, nursing profession evolved from the task of caring for the sick which was initially mainly performed by women (American Association for the History of Nursing, 2006). I believe that nursing profession is a calling rather than just a job that only offers motivation from paycheck. One working in the nursing profession is not only motivated by remuneration but also by one’s attitude towards the profession. It is my philosophy that kindness, patience, devotion to the service of mankind, collaboration, and determination are necessary for

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Abstract

People learn through different ways and means. One way is through seeking advice from one`s role models who are generally successful in their life. Life coaching essentially helps people to understand and think differently. Its main objective is to let the one undergoing coaching learn for himself what is good for his or her development. It helps learners develop brighter thinking. The coach does not tell the learners what they ought to do to achieve their dreams and ultimate goals in life. This is to avoid imparting his agenda on the learner. Life coaching appreciates the fact that

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Employment can be defined as an individual's business or career. Whereas training, on the other hand, is the methodical strategy to impacting individuals’ information, abilities, and attitudes in order to enhance individual, group, and business effectiveness. Development is simply, the methodical initiatives impacting individuals’ knowledge or abilities for reasons of personal growth or upcoming tasks and/or roles. Thus, the objective of this research is to figure out the efforts of studying casually to career and growth. Professionals do not want learning; they want performance. Informal does not mean accidental. Those who keep informal studying to chance keep money on

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Although professional learning is viewed as something which takes place outside the conventional workplace, the truth of the matter is that professional learning takes place every day as instructors take time to reflect on their professional practice and share ideas aimed at improving student outcomes. Nonetheless, in the quest to increase the effectiveness of professional learning, various models have been designed with the objective of getting positive impact on valued student incomes. The models differ in content and structure, and from self-paced initiatives to well-structured initiatives which may earn an individual formal qualification.

Coaching and Mentoring

In today’s world, peer-network mechanisms

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Coach Notebook

Coaching refers to the training, teaching or development practices used to help and support the individuals/teams with the intention of accomplishing one specific outcome or goal. The term coaching may also be used informally for a person who has gained greater skills or expertise than others and as a result, he is in a position to offers his experience to assist or guide the learning individual. The learning individual is often referred as coachee or trainee and the skilled person is recognized as a coach.
Coaches often use their notebooks in order to assist themselves in maintaining and standardizing

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Coaching is a professional relationship, where the coach supports the learner to develop ability and capacity to improve on performance management. In the performance management, coaching is giving the chance for feedback on issues related to performance. Coaching improves the employee engagement. This leads to productivity of the employees in the organization. The issues involve the skills and knowledge required to perform the tasks in the organization. Performance management involves activities that the organization undertakes to ensure it delivers the goals and objectives set for the organization.
The coaching is a tool for the organization which when utilized well

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Introduction

The request for proposal by the City of Charlottesville focuses on the coaching services and executive development. The RFP response entails how the services will be facilitated and how the coaching process will be carried out. This proposal has a set of strengths and weaknesses that can be evaluated to determine the quality of the proposal. The evaluation of the proposal will be done according to the checklist provided in the Master’s Program handbook. The review will be divided into three main sections. The first section evaluates the first document; the understanding of the RFP and the rationale

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Article Review on Training

Training is important in all organizations since it induces excellent performance among employees. Various authors have made different arguments regarding training. One article that has made such attempts is ‘Seven steps to coaching your employees to success’ by Katherine Graham-Leviss. In this article, Katherine outlines the major steps that are important for effective training on employees. According to her, training employees is important since it helps them to gain the skill and competence needed to work in the organization. In addition, training improves the coordination and effectiveness of employees in the organization (Katherine 2011).
In this article, Katherine argues

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Introduction

The RFP is about seeking for coaching and facilitation services for various departments in the City of Charlottesville. The RFP can be designed to focus on facilitation services only, coaching services or executive services only or both. The RFP was selected because it involves a lot of team training and learning processes. It focuses on the various ways of achieving development through coaching and facilitation.

RFP background

The RFP will be based on the information about Charlottesville city’s leadership program called Charlottesville Leadership Development Academy. The program has been held twice by the city management. It involves a comprehensive 9

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Introduction

Influence models are frameworks that can be used within organizations to impact on employees to improve the efficiency and performance of the organization. Models of influence can also be referred to as models of intervention. Intervention models are designed to mobilize human and capital resources whenever there is a need to restructure the organization to promote growth. There are many models of influence in organizational development. They include; coaching teams and individuals, management and leadership. The three are the major models that are often employed in modern day Organizational Development efforts. The models have similarities in that they all

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Sales management and training is a broad domain. It is important to come up with effective and efficient sales management and training strategies and methods as it is not easy to make a sales call or give a sales pitch. The sales personnel and agents should be properly trained and educated in order to increase the chances of the successful sales call and sales pitch. Hence, proper sales training is of high importance in this regard. Apart from this it is highly important to provide the sales team and personnel with proper and competent sales leadership. The sales leadership

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Purpose of large system interventions and how individuals are affected

Firms operate in dynamic environments. Kudler Fine Foods is not an exception to this fact. Therefore, it is necessary to appreciate the need for change within the whole organization. Large system interventions are the process of including an entire organization in organizational development. This is because developing an organization using small groups has proved expensive and time consuming. However, with increased global, competition, there is a need to adapt to changes fast enough in order to gain competitive advantage. Large system interventions involve all stakeholders within an organization. It is essential to include everyone during organizational change process. This

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Coaching involves an integration of skills and knowledge in enhancing learning, performance and growth (Burton and Raedeke, 2008). To improve on efficiency, a coach requires an understanding and knowledge of processes, styles, techniques and skills, appropriate in his or her coaching context. Coaching provides support and empowerment in a variety of ways; this includes change, focus, vigor etc. As a coach, one is expected to carry out the assigned role based on knowledge, experience, values, beliefs and opinions. This in itself is a form of philosophy that requires consciousness and consistency (Gutgrie, 2003). Successful coaches apply a set of

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