The Coaching Dance: A tale of coaching and management - Tapa blanda

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Disillusioned with his job in the City, idealistic Ben Lindsay joins Hathaway Publishing International, where he manages a team of people for the first time. After some early disastrous meetings, Ben works with a coach who helps him to develop his own coaching skills, which Ben deploys to manage effectively and with integrity. The story conveys the basics of coaching and its use in managing people through the experiences of a novice manager.

Bob Thomson is an experienced coach and management development professional. He currently works at the University of Warwick where he acts as a coach, facilitator, supervisor and mediator. He was formerly the Leadership Development Manager at National Grid Transco. His previous books include Growing People: Learning and developing from day to day experience; Don?t Just Do Something, Sit There: An introduction to non-directive coaching; and With No Attachment to the Answer. Non-directive coaching: assumptions, approaches and applications.

Biografía del autor

Bob Thomson is a coach and facilitator at the University of Warwick. He runs the Warwick Leadership Programme and the University’s Certificate and Diploma in Coaching. He is a qualified coach and supervisor, and is a Member of the Association for Coaching. He was previously Leadership Development Manager at National Grid Transco. Before moving into management development he worked as an economist for eleven years with British Steel and ICI. Bob has written three previous books: · Growing People: Learning and developing from day to day experience · Don’t Just Do Something Sit There: an introduction to non-directive coaching – which has been published in Chinese with the unusual title Modern Midwifery: the art of coaching · With No Attachment to the Answer – Non-directive coaching: attitudes, approaches and applications He is married with four children and lives in Stratford upon Avon. For information on his private practice as a coach, supervisor and mediator, visit his website: www.bobthomsoncoaching.com He can be contacted by e-mail at bob.thomson@warwick.ac.uk.