new edition of the bestseller

THIRD EDITION

COACHING FOR PERFORMANCE

GROWing People, Performance and Purpose

JOHN WHITMORE

Clear, concise, hands-on and user-friendly, Coaching for Performance is a coaching guide written in a coaching style.

Now in a new, expanded and fully revised third edition, this bestselling handbook will help you learn the skills - and the art - of good coaching, and realize its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance.

As John Whitmore writes, 'Coaching is not merely a technique to be wheeled out and rigidly applied in certain prescribed circumstances. It is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being.' This third edition of the definitive guide moves onto new psychological ground with three new chapters on coaching for personal meaning, purpose at work and on corporate values and culture - to GROW people, performance and purpose together.

Adopted by many of the world's major corporations, this easy to use title argues persuasively for:

• Using effective questions rather than instructions or commands to raise awareness and responsibiliity, with extensive examples
• Following the GROW sequence - Goals, Reality, Options, Will - to generate prompt action and peak performance
• The growing need to relate to the individual's sense of meaning and purpose

and examines why:

• Coaches now need enhanced skill levels
• Coaching is the essential team leadership skill.

Sir John Whitmore consults and lectures widely on coaching and teamworking together with his colleagues David Hemery and David Whitaker of Performance Consultants. Visit their website at http://www.performanceconsultants.co.uk.

After running businesses in the UK, Switzerland and USA he founded Inner Game Ltd with Timothy Gallwey which has been highly influential in introducing new approaches to sports and business training. Sir John Whitmore began his career as a professional racing driver, driving for the highly successful Ford team at Le Mans, and won both the British and the European Saloon car championships in the 1960s.