Stop Managing, Start Coaching
Author: Terri Levine
List Price: $19.95
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ISBN: 0972852727
Publisher: Comprehensive Coaching U (September, 2003)
Sales Rank: 95,915
Average Customer Rating: 4.25 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
It's Working!
We got this book for our management team after hearing about it on the radio. We have implmented the ideas and boy are they working! Morale is up! I believe the productivity and profitability gains the other companies share at the beginning of the book, will be true for us to. Every business that has managers, must get this book for their teams.
Rating: 4 out of 5
To The Point
Stop Managing and Start Coaching gets right to the point. Anyone leading or owning a business should read this book and utilize its concepts. It's a common sense process and could change a corporate culture creating a better managed and more profitable organization.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Caveat Emptor: 58 pages of big type and thin content
I'd love to write a glowing review of this book. Even a glimpse at the CONTENTS will quickly show you why I cannot...
CONTENTS:
Endorsements & Foreword (11pp)
Ch 1: Origins of Terri's program (3pp + 1 blank page)
Ch 2: Philosophy: Let's call ourselves coaches instead of managers to boost morale (3.5pp)
Ch 3: First: Be honest and meet regularly with employees (6pp)
Ch 4: Second: Develop teams so all employees feel listened to (3.5pp)
Ch 5: Third: Focus on employees' thoughts and feelings; use positive thinking (4pp)
Ch 6: Four: Give positive feedback, praise (2pp)
Ch 7: Five: Try Job Shadowing (2pp)
Ch 8: Get rid of negative employees; they're too hard to make positive (2pp)
Ch 9: Regularly survey employee dissatisfactions (3.5pp)
Ch 10: Make employee evaluations into celebrations of their strengths (2.5pp + 1 blank)
Ch 11: Take steps to make your company feel like a community (2pp)
Ch 12: Get volunteers to organize "fun" activities for parties, birthday recognition, special dress up days, etc. (2.5pp + 1 blank)
Ch 13: Make meetings shorter and more efficient (4pp)
Ch 14: Hire an outside coach (Terri, for example) for your executives (11pp + 1 blank)
Ch 15: There you have ECM(TM) - Extraordinary Coaching Methods(1.5pp)
Ch 16: Thoughts about 9/11 (7pp +1 blank)
Ch 17: Notes from the coach (1pp + 1 blank)
Bibliography (1pp)
Index (3pp)
Ads for Terri (5pp)Terri cites organizational research and Gallup Polls as proving that employees who have poor morale are less effective and productive and that corporate bottom line suffers. She therefore developed and trade-marked her "coaching model," focusing on enhancing company morale, proclaiming that it is "not just another management model." Three positive reviews piqued my curiosity, so I got a copy from Amz. I wondered how a "108pp" book could accomplish so much - and HAD to know. When it arrived I found that it was actually only *79* pages! Huge type. Fifteen abbreviatd chapters, filled out with blank pages (plus some introductory endorsements and concluding pages of ads). Hey - I believe I could author a book like this. Actual pages of content (total the pages above) is *58*! Truly a breakthough in publishing efficiency.
Reading the book was also expedited since there was NO novel idea to challenge the mind. It's all been said and written thousands of times by writers who actually flesh out the principles with corporate examples, interesting stories, and details on exactly how to implement these changes.[...]
I agree that every one of the issues that is covered as a chapter in this book is an important issue for effectivement business management. NONE of them however can be covered in the *THREE* pages that are the average length of a chapter here! What in the world? What WAS she thinking?
I am guessing that Terri is VERY dynamic presenter and coach. Probably she hoped that her dynamism would come through on these pages. Unfortunately, without her physical practice we need some ACTUAL CONTENT to make a book useful to us. [...]
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