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Becoming a Coaching Leader
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Becoming a Coaching Leader

The Proven Strategy for Building Your Own Team of Champions

Daniel Harkavy
Thomas Nelson, 2007
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Would you like to help your team members become more effective, and enjoy their work and personal lives more? Daniel Harkavy teaches you how to do just that by becoming an effective coaching leader. The key to his method is modeling the qualities and behaviors you want to instill in others. To be a coaching leader (and not a mere manager), you need conviction, courage and honesty. By embracing listening and learning, and considering what matters in your life, you can successfully coach people to progress by helping them define their own “Core Four” levels. People who develop a life plan and a business vision, and who manage their priorities, can see how their work contributes to their happiness and sense of purpose. Then, based on their vision statements, they can set clear, purposeful goals that are specific enough to be operational. getAbstract applauds Harkavy’s systematic approach to coaching employees and ultimately adding value to your business.

Summary

Your Life’s Purpose

Business coaching (not to be equated with management consulting) is a fresh approach to fulfilling your life plan and leading others to fulfill theirs as they work within a successful team. It has been growing as a profession over the past few decades, and it takes many approaches toward helping employees be satisfied and productive. No matter what your business sells, your people generate its profits by creating products or providing services, so giving them some assistance adds more value to your company. “Coaching leaders” help employees enhance their skills, lead happier lives and develop a clear sense of purpose. Leaders fall into five categories:

  1. “Self-made” leaders – These leaders believe everyone must make it on their own because they did.
  2. “Perk-and-pray” leaders – These people provide training sporadically because it costs so much, but they do care enough to provide this small benefit, however seldom.
  3. “Mentor” leaders – These leaders are respected for their “knowledge and success.” People come to them with their problems, and they share their wisdom and let others ...

About the Author

Daniel Harkavy is founder of the executive coaching firm Building Champions, which coaches business people on improving the quality of their professional and personal lives.

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