Group Coaching: A Practical Guide to Optimizing Collective Talent in Any Organization

by Ro Gorell

Overview

Group Coaching is everything you need to run successful coaching sessions effectively. Based on 20 years of HR, consulting and practical coaching experience, this book offers tools, tips, ideas, different perspectives and easy-to-use templates. Group coaching on its own is a powerful tool and when linked to your talent strategy becomes the means to optimize collective talent in any organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749467609
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	05/03/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Ro Gorell specializes in performance improvement and talent development, working with a broad range of clients looking to leverage talent and effect change. Ro's enthusiasm for group coaching began in 1999 whilst coaching process improvement teams. She is the co-author of 50 Top Tools for Coaching published by Kogan Page as well as Are They On The Right Bus?The 55-Minute Guide to Talent Management (Verb Publishing)
Ro Gorell is Director at Change Optimised, supporting leaders to navigate organization-wide transformation through coaching, mentoring and change management solutions. She has extensive experience in both group and individual coaching. An accredited trainer with IC Agile she is an active member of both the Agile and Change Management global communities. Based in Australia, she is the author of Group Coaching and with Gillian Jones the co-author of How to Create a Coaching Culture and 50 Top Tools for Coaching, published by Kogan Page. Her latest area of research is coaching self-organizing teams.

Table of Contents

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction: taking the group coaching journey;
• Section - ONE: The context of group coaching;
• • Chapter - 01: Why it’s important to start with self;
  • Chapter - 02: Benefits of group coaching;
  • Chapter - 03: Certainty drives action;
• Section - TWO: Creating a group coaching strategy;
• • Chapter - 04: Group coaching process;
  • Chapter - 05: Group coaching blueprint;
  • Chapter - 06: Group dynamics and the group directive;
• Section - THREE: Tools and processes;
• • Chapter - 07: Contracting for ‘success’;
  • Chapter - 08: Discovering the right tools;
  • Chapter - 09: Creative group coaching;
• Section - FOUR: Measuring success;
• • Chapter - 10: The challenges of measuring results from group coaching;
  • Chapter - 11: Measuring success in practice;
• Section - FIVE: Group coaching as talent liberation;
• • Chapter - 12: Using group coaching as part of your talent system;
  • Chapter - 13: Actions for optimizing collective talent

Editorial Reviews

"Although I'm only into the first few words of chapter two I've already pulled value from the book....[I] look forward to getting into the rest of the book."

Richard Scott-Will-Harknett

"A fresh, well considered, and practical guide for those considering harnessing group coaching as a talent development tool'"

Director of the Talent Management Association Sharon Hitch

"A fresh, well considered, and practical guide for those considering harnessing group coaching as a talent development tool."

Director, Talent Management Association - Sharon Hitch

"[P]rovides templates for use in coaching with an eye to showing readers how to customize coaching routines and understand group dynamics, and covers everything from successful coaching routines to the overall process of group coaching. A fine pick for any business or individual involved in coaching!"

Midwest Book Review - California Bookwatch

"A fresh, well considered, and practical guide for those considering harnessing group coaching as a talent development tool." --Sharon Hitch, Director, Talent Management Association

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