Product Description

Coaching has surged in popularity in recent years, gaining acceptance as a high-impact tool for executive development, and is finding broader and farther-reaching business applications. Increasingly, coaching is seen as the strategic solution for the key business issues - managing the knowledge embedded in the organisation, ensuring the continuous development of that knowledge and managing the knowledge worker. These are critical to competitive success, regardless of whether your organisation is a commercial, not-for-profit or government agency. Janice Caplan has drawn on a wealth of experience to deliver this definitive title, through the use of practical tools and techniques, fully supported by a wealth of case studies from leading organisations in every field, including call centres, television news reporting, the arts world, and a number of public and private sector organisations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #246675 in Books
• Published on: 2002-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 177 pages

From the Publisher
CIPD Calls for Coaching to Fill the Productivity Gap
A new book has identified that collaborative, coaching styles of leadership could be the key to solving the UK's low productivity.

Coaching for the Future is written by coaching specialist Janice Caplan and published by people management experts the Chartered Institute for Personnel adn Development (CIPD). It notes that the focus of attention for HR professionals has moved on to boosting personal productivity, giving all employees the scope to organise themselves while still providing necessary tools and boundaries.

From the Author
Coaching for the Future is an introduction to the different uses of coaching and mentoring. On another level, it seeks to provide a ‘blueprint’, for both line and HR managers, of the ideal organisation. The hot topics of the moment that all organisations need to address are: flexible working, the need to increase productivity and competitiveness, the need to make sure that everyone, especially those at the top, make learning their priority. To achieve these needs, many organisations will need to adapt their cultures, managers will need to build a new set of people management skills, HR practitioners will need to consolidate their role at a strategic level and individuals will need to incorporate continuous learning into their day-to-day activities. Coaching for the Future shows how coaching can be used as a tool for meeting these needs.

About the Author
Janice Caplan held senior roles in human resource management before co-founding an HRconsultancy firm. The firm's partners are active in leadership, executive coaching and HR strategy programmes.