In a 1997 study by the Center for Creative Leadership, research on managerial learning suggests that formal developmental relationships such as coaching and mentoring are an effective way to enhance growth and change in managers. In fact, 77% of the respondents from U.S. companies implementing formal mentoring and coaching programs improved retention and performance.
I trust that you will find these articles and links to be of interest:
Square Wheels Newsletter 3 - Square Wheels of Teamwork and Coaching
"Stupidly Simple Coaching Tricks" - a compendium of ideas
Handout from the "Coaching the Caterpillar to Fly" presentation at the Excellence in Mississippi Conference (3/16/00)
Other links and resources:
Big Dog's Performance Coaching Page - www.nwlink.com/~donclark/perform/coach.html
Tom Crane's great coaching resources - http://www.craneconsulting.com
Coach's Feedback Assessment - Darcy Hitchcock's site at http://home.pacifier.com/~axis/services.html
Steve Herbeline's Coaching Resources at http://www.netfeed.com/~herbelin/infodos.htm
Coaching Articles & Materials - www.coachdt.com/articles.html
Why Coaching? - www.thecoach.com/Articles/why.html
Coaching People To Take Successful Action - www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/mfc3.htm
How to Coach For Improved Performance - http://edge.lowe.org/resource/document/htmldocs/6439.HTM
note - this website seems to always take you BACK to its home page even with the above URL and makes finding this particular article difficult. Try using their search engine to make things faster - I tried this a few times
The Four Compass Points Of Masterful Coaching - www.smartbiz.com/sbs/arts/mfc1.htm
Coaching in Business - www.srg.co.uk/coach.html
Coach University - www.coachu.com/qaindexx.htm
Daniel Robbin's on Coaching, Essential People Skill #1 - www.ecoquality.com/dra/epscoach.html
Coaching Up-Test Your Readiness - http://coachingandmentoring.com/Quiz/coachingup.htm
Test Your Coaching Skills Quiz - http://coachingandmentoring.com/Quiz/coaching.html
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