Formula 2 + 2: The Simple Solution for Successful Coaching (The Ken Blanchard Series)

In some ways the framework presented is simple and intuitive, but takes some work in practice. The book is written as a business fable. Seems we are all learning more from stories than ever.

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The tale begins with an introduction to a harried manager Pauline, and her staff who are responsible for sales at their organization. Pauline has the usual duties of a manager, with all the bureaucracy and effort that entails. Managing her staff, Pauline doesn't realize how some run-of-the-mill activities as part of the standard corporate performance management process, actually cause employee dissatisfaction and discord. A simply written, short and succinct text is complemented by interesting pull-out quotes, such as "feedback should be as much of a celebration of success as it is a correction of problems" and "whenever performance appraisals result in surprise, the manager has failed".

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The book is a quick read of a simple concept, but profound formula, for communicating and encouraging people to be the best they can be. It is easy with my personality to find areas in which people need improvement. I have to work at the compliments and exhortation side of leadership and management. This formula helps me to conceptualize how to better encourage and lead those I work with in life.

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Why do we wait until someone screws up, makes a serious mistake, or doesn't do what we ask before giving feedback? Building a communication style of regular and continuous positive feedback is a much better system for a manager.

It makes it easier to offer course corrections, and its much better to build bridges than to burn them. I highly recommend the book and its excellent solution for successful coaching! One person found this helpful. Its focus is on coaching, versus performance appraisal. The authors contend that the average performance appraisal is like a trip to the dentist - once a year, dreaded, and often too late to catch problems.

On the other hand, coaching can be "just in time" and focused on supporting people to be great, rather that correcting them for not becoming all that they can be. The book provides how-to's for the five keys to being a great coach: These fundamentals give the key for providing the instant course correction and frequent feedback that is so necessary in today's fast-paced business environment. This affords a significant competitive advantage over managers who rely on the stiff, formal, all-too-infrequent performance appraisal that is often looked at as punishment - and a report card.

The book's goal is to help managers and employees alike view feedback as a positive, joyous experience. Good managers will easily leverage the information into significant results for their teams.

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Average managers will find that applying these techniques helps them stay managers by enabling them to do a job that they were quite possibly struggling with - and wondering if it would ever get better. It arrived on time. See all 5 reviews. There's a problem loading this menu right now.

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Formula 2 + 2: The Simple Solution for Successful Coaching by Douglas B. Allen

Even the best managers often view employee coaching and feedback as necessary evils, tasks to be done with little enthusiasm and as rarely as possible. Based on the assertion that feedback is most eff Even the best managers often view employee coaching and feedback as necessary evils, tasks to be done with little enthusiasm and as rarely as possible. Based on the assertion that feedback is most effective when motivated by a spirit of helpfulness and a sincere desire to help employees succeed, the book explains five concepts - timeliness, balance, focus, specificity, and follow-up - that transform correction into encouragement, build an atmosphere of trust, and create positive and productive performance evaluations.

Hardcover , 90 pages. Published October 10th by Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

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