{"id":609,"date":"2006-09-01T06:55:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T05:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=609"},"modified":"2006-09-03T04:04:48","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T03:04:48","slug":"from-the-tao-of-coaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2006\/09\/from-the-tao-of-coaching\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Tao of Coaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image610\" src=\"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/YingYang.jpg\" alt=\"The Tao of Coaching\" style=\"float:right\"\/>From the short but excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/-Tao-Coaching-Boost\/dp\/186197650X\/sr=8-1\/qid=1156917413\/ref=pd_bbs_1\/104-5227363-6627905?ie=UTF8\">Tao of Coaching<\/a> book written by Max Landsberg<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Increase your effectiveness as a leader by helping others to develop and grow&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Covers great topics such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Getting and giving effective feedback that is not judgemental, timely, and focuses on specific activities, not personality traits<\/li>\n<li>GROW (Goals, Reality, Options, Wrap Up) as an effective problem solving technique<\/li>\n<li>Problem, Blockers (Coachee, Other People, The Situation) and Ideal Outcome as another pattern<\/li>\n<li>Building trust and understanding a coachee&#8217;s motivation using a Skill\/Will matrix<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A brief, reassuring read but definitely worthwhile for anyone who has to work with people (i.e. everyone!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the short but excellent Tao of Coaching book written by Max Landsberg &#8220;Increase your effectiveness as a leader by helping others to develop and grow&#8221; Covers great topics such as: Getting and giving effective feedback that is not judgemental, timely, and focuses on specific activities, not personality traits GROW (Goals, Reality, Options, Wrap Up) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[76,39],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coaching","category-technical","tag-coaching","tag-work-related"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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