Ro Gorell

Group Coaching (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide to Optimizing Collective Talent in Any Organization

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kogan Page
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780749467609
• Artikelnr.: 38397018

Autorenporträt

Ro Gorell specializes in performance improvement and talent development, working with a broad range of clients looking to leverage talent and effect change. Her business, Ascent2Change Ltd, helps organizations understand the life cycle of change and how it impacts business performance. She is also the co-author of 50 Top Tools for Coaching (Kogan Page).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: taking the group coaching journey
Part One The context of group coaching
01 Why it's important to start with self
Discovering the reasons you're interested in group coaching
Finding your place on your journey
Understanding the scripts you might be running
Assumptions, beliefs and confidence
The egoless coach
Key points
02 Benefits of group coaching
Defined benefits
The virtuous or vicious triangle
Benefits elicitation exercise
The benefits and gains for each party
Key points
03 Certainty drives action
Getting clear on definitions
How coaching has been defined
Team and group coaching
Facilitation and group coaching
Boundary management
Coaching isn't therapy - although it can be therapeutic
Knowing what you want and where you're going
Key points
Part Two Creating a group coaching strategy
04 Group coaching process
How to create a coaching process
The process map is not the territory
The process is not a straightjacket
The contracting process
Co-creating the group coaching process
Key points
05 Group coaching blueprint
Here's one we prepared earlier
GROW as a process
Group coaching as growth
Developing your own blueprint
Keeping a beginner's mind
Key points
06 Group dynamics and the group directive
The origin of group dynamics: the term not the reality!
Social psychology in groups
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Key points
Part Three Tools and processes
07 Contracting for 'success'
The contract
How contracting is different for group coaching
Why contracting is important
Qualification process
Contracting out at the end of the group coaching assignment
The 'ground rules' in group coaching
Closure and contracting
Key points
08 Discovering the right tools
Please may I use this tool?
The overall contracting process
Goals and outcomes
Relating to others
Decision making
Change and transition
09 Creative group coaching
How other people feel
How you notice your own feelings
Logic and numbers
Images and spatial awareness
Music, sound, rhythms
Physical movement
Words and language
Creativity starts with a growth mindset
Key points
Part Four Measuring success
10 The challenges of measuring results from group coaching
Legacy, vision, strategy
The system you start with influences results
Results = feedback
Use the start and end points to create a journey
Key points
11 Measuring success in practice
Success is a matter of perspective
Have, do or be: which measure does your group use?
Wisdom is self-perpetuating
Recognition
Success and wisdom in the real world
Key points
Part Five Group coaching as talent liberation
12 Using group coaching as part of your talent system
The purpose behind group coaching as part of your talent system
The reason why that's important
What the likely benefits might be
Diagnosing your current talent system
Getting clear on your talent strategy
Group coaching creates a learning organization system
Is group coaching the only tool in your box to achieve your purpose?
Key points
13 Actions for optimizing collective talent
Creating momentum by going back to basics
Leveraging the group to optimize their talents
Developing your talents as a group coach
Optimizing collective talent requires 'systems thinking'
Summary
Key points from the book
References
Further reading
Index