Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills

Staff development is a key management responsibility. Good people and good performance — and hence good development — are vital to success in a fast-changing and competitive world. Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills contains practical guidelines to help managers develop their staff. Ideal for busy managers who don't have human resources support, it will help them boost staff effectiveness through coaching and training. Key content includes: why development matters, on-the-job coaching, mentoring, developing a formal training method, conducting a training session, and assessing on-going effectiveness. With tips on using exercises and role-playing in training, Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills is useful to those new to HR as well as hard-pressed managers.

Staff development is a key management responsibility. Good people and good performance — and hence good development — are vital to success in a fast-changing and competitive world.

Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills contains practical guidelines to help managers develop their staff. Ideal for busy managers who don't have human resources support, it will help them boost staff effectiveness through coaching and training.

Key content includes: why development matters, on-the-job coaching, mentoring, developing a formal training method, conducting a training session, and assessing on-going effectiveness.

With tips on using exercises and role-playing in training, Improve Your Coaching and Training Skills is useful to those new to HR as well as hard-pressed managers.

Patrick Forsyth runs Touchstone Training & Consultancy and specializes in marketing, sales and communications skills. Writing is a significant part of his own work portfolio. He is the author of more than fifty successful business books, including "Motivating Your Staff", "Successful Time Management" and "How to Write Reports and Proposals". He writes regularly for a number of business journals, and for Writing Magazine, and devises and writes training materials.