Speed Coaching

Book excerpt: You don’t have to be a certified coach to benefit from proven coaching tools and principles. ‘Speed Coaching’ is written to help leaders make the best of what coaching offers - the dialogue, tools, and mindset to think like a coach, listen like a coach, talk like a coach, and act like a coach. The book will help you learn how to spot and take advantage of daily opportunities to engage your teams in quick, focused, and meaningful coaching conversations, leveraging those interactions to transform themselves, their teams, and their organizations. Instead of making coaching a structured, rigorous process offered to only a few key executives at the top, ‘Speed Coaching’ aims to introduce coaching as an exchange of ideas and dialogues between employees and managers at all levels that is positive, motivating, and forward-looking. ‘Speed Coaching’ is intended to help leaders take advantage of the quick, often taken-for-granted conversations with their employees on a daily basis. It allows leaders to coach on-the-fly whenever the opportunity arises, taking a sip of the coaching process that is spontaneous, improvised, and powerful.