Coaching for High Performance is intended to inspire IT managers with practical advice and tips on how to create a coaching environment in their department. Applying coaching skills in the IT workplace will help create a climate of high performance.
Coaching helps people to define desired outcomes for themselves and encourages them to take responsibility for developing strategies and actions to achieve them. It’s about helping people to learn rather than teaching them. By applying sound coaching skills within in the IT workplace, you can enhance the quality of your team’s work, increase people’s ability and confidence, and create a climate of high performance.
If you are an IT manager and work with IT professionals on a regular basis, Coaching for High Performance will inspire you with practical advice and tips on a range of soft skills areas to help you create the ideal coaching environment for your department.
Use your easy to apply coaching skills to get the best out of all of your interactions from five minutes chats, direct reports, one-to-one meetings, performance reviews, to IT project meetings.
Sarah Cook is the Managing Director of The Stairway Consultancy Ltd. She has 15 years’ consulting experience specialising in executive coaching, leadership and change, and has a strong background in industry. Sarah is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, with an MA from Cambridge University and an MBA. She is an accredited user of a wide range of psychometric and personal diagnostic tools.