Caching, counseling, and
mentoring
How to Choose & Use the
Right Technique to Boost Employee Performance
Caching, counseling, and
mentoring they're hot terms in current managerial lingo. But do you really understand the
difference between these techniques? Do you know how important they are and when and how
to use them? If not, you should, because mastering them could make the difference between
your success and failure as a manager.
Now, for the first time,
there is a book that addresses all three of these crucial management tools. Coaching,
Counseling & Mentoringwas written specifically to help you perfect these skills and
use them to improve employee performance across all levels.
Beginning with coaching
(continuously encouraging employees to do their jobs well), you'll learn how to:
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Use coaching to "add stretch" to your employees' performance.
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Accurately assess development and training needs.
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Develop teams adept at problem solving and brainstorming.
- Avoid
the many problems that can occur from not coaching.
M oving on to counseling
(attempting to fix poor performance), you'll discover how to:
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Build honest, open communications.
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Conduct productive counseling sessions.
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Avoid problems that can derail your counseling efforts.
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Document your counseling efforts in case of legal action by an aggrieved employee.
Ending with mentoring
(helping top performers excel), you'll find out how to:
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Sustain your employees' motivation despite limited rewards or opportunities for
advancement. ;
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Prevent new employees from picking up the bad habits of existing staff.
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Skirt common mentoring headaches such as jealousy or charges of discrimination.
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Instill the right corporate values, and more.
The success of any
company depends on the success of its individual employees. And the success of each
employee in turn depends in large part on your success as a coach, counselor, and mentor.
Coaching, Counseling & Mentoring is the one and only book that will ensure you succeed
in all three roles.
Florence Stone has more
than twentyyears' experience as a writer and editor with the American Management
Association. As a group editor she has been in charge of several AMA newsletters and
journals, and has been a coach, counselor, and mentor to her own staff. She is the author
of The Manager's Balancing Act and coauthor of The High-Value Manager (both AMACOM). Ms.
Stone lives in New York City
230 pages