Master today's #1 must-have leadership skill! Become an outstanding coach, and help your team and subordinates excel at everything they do! Master the mindset of a 'coaching manager,' learn the core skills of effective coaching, apply those skills in the today's common coaching scenarios--and achieve the outcomes you're looking for! Extensive updates throughout, including new coverage of choosing your most effective personal coaching style. By Julie Starr, a 20-year expert in coaching and business change management. Coaching is the must-have leadership skill for the coming decade. Brilliant Coaching 2nd Ed, is the definitive, practical, up-to-the-minute guide to becoming an outstanding coach--and coaching your people and teams to outstanding levels of performance and success. Top performance consultant Julie Starr teaches simple, practical ways to unlock your own unique coaching abilities, and reap the business and personal rewards. Drawing on her own extensive experience coaching and teaching others to do so, Starr helps you: Understand exactly what coaching is--and isn't. Get past 'ego' and other obstacles to effective coaching interactions. Build rapport and relationships. Focus your listening, ask more effective questions, and provide more constructive feedback. Coaching when you're in charge of the agenda--and when your 'coachee' is. Mastering valuable 'response coaching' techniques. ° And much more. Updated throughout, this edition adds extensive new coverage of choosing your best styles of coaching, and developing the flexibility to succeed with diverse coaching challenges and many different types of individuals.