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Coaching and Mentoring for Business
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Coaching and Mentoring for Business

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  • Grace McCarthy - University of Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia
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March 2014 | 240 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

Coaching and Mentoring for Business seeks to go beyond the vast body of skills-based literature that dominates the study of coaching and mentoring and focus on the contribution that coaching can make to the implementation of human resource strategy and organizational strategy.

Grace McCarthy includes an introduction to coaching and mentoring theory, then goes on to look at coaching and mentoring skills, and how they may be applied in relation to individual change, coaching and mentoring for leaders and by leaders, coaching and mentoring for strategy, innovation and organisational change, as well as coaching and mentoring in cross-cultural and virtual contexts. Coaching and Mentoring for Business also explores ethical issues in coaching and mentoring before concluding with the evaluation of success in coaching and mentoring and a discussion of emerging issues.

Key Features:

  • Vignettes to help readers consolidate their learning by illustrating real life situations
  • Web links to useful academic and professional resources
  • A companion website with PowerPoint slides, a lecturer's guide and self-assessment quizzes available

 
Chapter 1: Introduction
 
Chapter 2: Coaching and mentoring theory and models
 
Chapter 3: Coaching and mentoring skills
 
Chapter 4: Coaching and mentoring for individual change
 
Chapter 5: Coaching and mentoring for leaders
 
Chapter 6: Coaching and mentoring by leaders
 
Chapter 7: Coaching and mentoring for strategy
 
Chapter 8: Coaching and mentoring for innovation
 
Chapter 9: Coaching and mentoring for organisational change
 
Chapter 10: Cross-cultural and virtual coaching and mentoring
 
Chapter 11: Ethical issues in coaching and mentoring
 
Chapter 12: Success in coaching and mentoring

Supplements

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For lecturers:
  • PowerPoint slides
  • Lecturer's Guide

For students:

  • Knowledge Quizzes
  • Skills and Self-awareness Quizzes

A very good book containing good practical points for those working in business who are tasked with mentoring staff.

Ms Rita Walsh
School of Business, Royal Agricultural College
June 26, 2015

A good read. Good coverage of leadership and coaching.

Ms Melody Harrogate
EHS, Derby univeristy
June 9, 2015

A useful guide

Ms Janette Bradnick
Department of Business, Kingston College
June 8, 2015

A very good introduction on the use of coaching and mentoring for business purposes. Especially ideal for those studying or practising coaching within organizational contexts.

Dr Ioanna Iordanou
Department of Business and Management, Oxford Brookes University
May 7, 2015

This is a great book and covers key areas in an accessible but detailed way.

Ms Sandra Parry
Bristol Business School, University of The West of England
April 21, 2015

a good book to contextualise coaching in a business setting

George Sandamas
School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University
April 17, 2015

Very useful and accessible book for students - will be added to the reading list .

Miss Stephanie Sturges
Department of Management, Manchester Metropolitan University
March 25, 2015

A valuable addition to Research Methods texts; a useful supplement to understanding theory, its application to social life and questionnaire development

Dr Godwin Tetteh
Business, London South Bank University
December 10, 2014

Excellent book for those who want to access key principles of coaching and mentoring.
Useful supplemental reading for Coaches in a business environment

Mr Gary Foulstone
Delivery, Gilfillan Associates Limited
December 10, 2014

As a key element of our Postgraduate mentoring for entrepreneurial practice course focuses on the spectrum of enabling strategies, particularly the interface between coaching and mentoring, this is a highly relevant anduseful resource.

Ms Christine Atkinson
Centre for Enterprise, University of South Wales
December 4, 2014

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