Chapter 25. COACHING—THE ABCS OF COACHING SUCCESS

Coaching touches many parts of your leadership role, and many skills are required to do it successfully. In the course of this section we want to help you think about this pervasive topic in some practical ways. As a way to get practical, let's go back to the starting point of successful coaching. Just as the letters of the alphabet are the building blocks of all reading and language, so are the building blocks of effective coaching—we'll call them the ABCs—that we share here. Though we go beyond these building blocks in the coming chapters, these concepts alone can help you be a better coach. And as you understand and master these three specific concepts, all of the other knowledge and skills ...

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