BookRobert F. Hicks, PhD.
Summary: "This book introduces a unique and practical coaching style as a way of interacting with colleagues, managing direct-reports, helping others solve problems, responding to change, making effective choices and developing professionally. It draws from four evidence-based models for interacting with others and facilitating change - solution-focused therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, motivational interviewing, and transactional analysis - and reframes them so that they are congruent with managerial and leadership terminology and provide a practical set of methods and tools for today's healthcare leader"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The mystique of leadership
The nature of helping conversations
The structure of coaching
Support-for-thought: adult-to-adult communication
Support-for-thought: intelligent listening
Becoming a solution-focused leader
Challenge-for-thought: designing the future
Challenge-for-action: a path to doing
Challenge-for-action: go slow to go fast
Support-for-action: readiness for change
Support-for-action: importance and confidence
A coaching roadmap: putting it all together.