Business Coaching Mentoring

Joe Doyle is Ireland's number one business mentor for Tradesmen and the construction industry. Hailing from Dublin, Ireland, Joe started off as a bricklayer before setting up his own construction business, which he ran for 10 years.

Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. But most managers feel they just don't have time for it. This book offers a better way: frequent, short conversations with employees about themselves, their goals, and the business that can be integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business.

Are you ready to create, inspire, and lead your own amazing salon team? Salon owners, this book is for you. It equips you with the business smarts you need to build a team of people you love and trust, so you can reap the rewards you deserve: money, time, freedom, and choice.

The Simple Six system will teach you how to grow your business one step at a time while avoiding distractions.

Who's pulling for you? Who's got your back? Who's putting your hat in the ring? Odds are this person is not a mentor but a sponsor. Mentors can build your self-esteem and provide a sounding board - but they're not your ticket to the top.

There is no need to come up with your own questions or even spend hours trying to figure out the much-needed powerful questions that you need to ask your colleagues. This book has done all the heavy lifting for you. The book “555 Powerful Questions for Coaching, Mentoring, and Leading at Work” contains 555 powerful questions from actual situations that will help you unlock the potential of your teammates, improve their performance and empower them.

Passive learning just doesn’t cut it in today’s evolving, competitive workplace. Research demonstrates that action-first learning works because it engages the mind immediately and makes sure that knowledge and skills will stick. With a more diverse array of action-based training designs, organizations can motivate learners, provide hands-on, collaborative practice, and drive behavioral change.

The profession of Agile Coaching is, in a word, confusing. Bob Galen has written Extraordinarily Badass Agile Coaching to help alleviate the confusion. The book centers on the Agile Coaching Growth Wheel as the competency and skill maturity model to baseline your agile coaching skills against. Its core goal is to “raise the bar” as to what true excellence looks like and to help you establish a personal development and growth plan. Consider this book that maps to coaching badassery, personal growth, and client service.

Chris Heller, a nationally recognized leader in real estate, joins bestselling author Greg Reid to share profound principles and practices for creating unparalleled success in sales, leadership, and relationships. In this engaging parable, you’ll meet Nick, a young sales professional who approaches John, a retiring CEO, and asks for his secret to success. Expecting to receive a single game-changing nugget of wisdom, John instead becomes Nick’s mentor. Over the course of several years, he shares his profound business and success principles with the young salesman.

In this ground-breaking book, Clare Josa guides you through her proven, research-backed five-step strategy to set yourself free from Imposter Syndrome.

People believe that working hard is enough to have success without realizing they need to create personal visibility for themselves. A pivotal feedback conversation Susan M. Barber had with a mentor led her to find a way to create authentic visibility for herself. Barber created a successful process that helped her build visibility for herself, her teams, and now her clients. This process is broken down into easy-to-follow steps in her new book, The Visibility Factor, a guide to shape the visibility that you want for yourself and your career.

From sports to business, the benefits of great coaching are well understood. Imagine if you could unlock the power of having a great coach in any moment, by learning to coach yourself. Take Charge of You teaches you the secrets to self-coaching. Everyone could use a good coach to help them reach their full potential. Written by two highly successful coaches from the worlds of business and professional sports, this book provides a straightforward process that will guide you on your self-coached journey to success.

NASA, Pixar Animation Studios, and BMW all use the Process Communication Model as a way of training leaders to connect effortlessly with anyone. This book simplifies the complex model to make it easy for anyone to use. Today, more than ever, leaders need a new style of leadership. They are realizing that true transformation happens through meaningful relationships, and discovering that the key to sustainable connections that create possibility and potential is through communication.

While it may not occur to us on a daily basis, there is a widespread cultural tendency toward quick decisions and quick action. Though the root cause is by no means malicious, we have begun to reward speed over quality, and the negative effects suffered in both our personal and professional lives are potentially catastrophic. Best-selling author and Chief Envisioner Dan Pontefract offers the solution to this predicament with what he coins "Open Thinking".

Managing Brilliant Jerks provides resources to help you work more effectively with difficult leaders. As you listen, you’ll find detailed information on the flow of coaching sessions, sample correspondence to use with key stakeholders, and questions that encourage you to reflect on the issues presented in each chapter. The story of Peter will clarify for you the complex processes at work in the mind of an abrasive leader—and empower you to forge a productive and cooperative relationship with the brilliant jerks you encounter.

Whether you're eyeing a specific leadership role, hoping to advance your skills, or simply looking to broaden your professional network, you need to find someone who can help. Wait for a senior manager to come looking for you—and you'll probably be waiting forever. Instead, you need to find the mentoring that will help you achieve your goals. Managed correctly, mentoring is a powerful and efficient tool for moving up.

The new edition of the best-selling employee development classic includes advice on talent retention in the gig economy and a new chapter on creating a career-development culture in your organization.

This book has quickly become the gold standard for improving focus, attention, and concentration. It goes beyond traditional books and advice of “remove distractions” or "pomodoro technique" by offering unprecedented insight into how your mind and body create concentration, and more importantly, how and why they take it away.

Narrated by the author, this book has energy, insight, and humor. What is it that prevents us from making deeper, more long-lasting connections with others? To author John Klymshyn, the answer lies in our understanding of the power of language. We must study, explore, and practice deeper dialogue in order to connect, communicate, collaborate, and contribute!

In The Hands-Off Manager, Steve Chandler and Duane Black offer a new vision for all managers. With stories, examples, and vibrant activities for the reader to practice, this book shows any manager - new or seasoned - how to coach and mentor employees rather than hover over their shoulders and goad them into action. In this system, each employee's strengths are honored and honed in a climate of partnership and mutual goal-setting.