Coaching and Mentoring - How to Develop Top Talent and Achieve Stronger Performance

General Management

Part of your responsibility as a manager is to boost employee performance-and what better way to do that than through coaching and mentoring? Developing your skills as a coach and mentor will help you solve existing performance problems and develop employee capabilities. This book will help
you identify the individuals who could benefit from coaching and mentoring and know the steps to take to do it right. Topics include:

- Improving feedback skills
- Knowing when to coach and when not to
- Planning and setting up coaching sessions
- . Distinguishing between coaching and mentoring

Plus, readers can access free interactive tools on the Harvard Business Essentials companion Web site at www.elearning.hbsp.org/businesstools

Subject Adviser: Herminia Ibarra
Herminia Ibarra is the INSEAD Chaired Professor of Organisational Be Area Coordinator for the Organisational Behaviour Group. Prior to joining INSEAD she served on the Harvard Business School faculty for thirteen years.