Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills

[front cover] [!Sunday Times logo!] Creating Success Improve your Coaching and Training Skills Learn training & mentoring skills Develop staff effectively Boost motivation & get results Patrick Forsyth [!Kogan Page logo!] [spine] [!Sunday Times logo!] Improve your Coaching and Training Skills Patrick Forsyth [!Kogan Page logo!] [back cover] [!Sunday Times logo!] "Patrick has a lucid and elegant style of writing which allows him to present information in a way that is organised, focused and easy to apply." Professional Marketing magazine Staff development is a key management responsibility. Good people and good performance and hence powerful, effective development are vital to success in a fast-changing and competitive world. Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills contains proven approaches and practical guidelines to help you develop your staff. Ideal for busy managers who don't have human resources support, it will help you to boost staff effectiveness through coaching and training. Essential topics covered include: why development matters; on-the-job coaching; mentoring; developing a formal training method; conducting a training session; assessing on-going effectiveness. Also containing tips on using exercises and role-plays, Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills is useful to those new to HR as well as hard-pressed managers wanting to get the most from people. The commonsense advice it contains will help you to motivate your staff and maximise their effectiveness and the results they achieve. Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy, which advises on marketing, management and communications skills. An established author, he has written many successful business books including Successful Time Management, How to Motivate People, and How to Write Reports and Proposals (also part of the Creating Success series and published by Kogan Page). 8.99 US$17.95 ISBN 978 0 7494 5235 5 [!insert barcode!] Business and marketing [!KP logo!] Kogan Page 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN United Kingdom www.kogan-page.co.uk Kogan Page US 525 South 4th Street, #241 Philadelphia PA 19147 USA www.timesonline.co.ukForsyth, Patrick is the author of 'Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills', published 2008 under ISBN 9780749452353 and ISBN 0749452358.