The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business Authored By Babson's Hunt & Weintraub

BABSON PARK, Mass., July 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Babson College Professors James M. Hunt and Joseph R. Weintraub have authored the 2nd edition of their best-selling business classic, The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business.

The Coaching Manager offers business managers insight and developmental coaching skills to help their employees learn and become more productive on a day-to-day basis.

The authors' extensive research over the past decade shows that managers who coach their employees become known as good managers to work for, developers of talent, and achievers of business results. They also become better leaders in the process.

The book's coaching model also encourages employees to take greater responsibility for their learning and development while building a stronger relationship with the manager. Such an approach focused on "development" will reduce the emphasis on "evaluation" and create learning opportunities for both manager and employee.

The Coaching Manager includes:

• real-world case studies,
• self-assessment tools and exercises to help readers apply coaching principles quickly,
• an action checklist to deepen skills and understanding of the coaching process.

New to the Second Edition

• A review of the disruptive impact of the global economic crisis on business organizations.
• Chapter 2 introduces a new, longer case to better clarify the overall challenge of talent management.
• Chapter 5 offers a new coaching assessment tool.
• Chapter 7 includes a new section, "Learning to Ask Questions", and a field-tested exercise for coaching teachers.
• Chapter 9's research explains what makes feedback valuable or not, and connects feedback to the developmental stage of the coached.
• Chapter 12 on "Coaching and Career Development" has been completely re-written based on the last 8 years of using the text in the authors' classes and includes the formulation of a robust development plan.

The thoughtful practicing manager, MBA student, and human resource executive or consultant will welcome this up-to-date handbook to becoming a better developer of talent in their organization.

"Coaching is not feedback; its focus is on developing and integrating an employee's own needs to better meet a company's defined goals," says Hunt. "The need for coaching does not necessarily imply that you've got a problem. It is an essential leadership skill to encourage the natural development of employees in business, be it entrepreneurial or Fortune 500."

"These are lean times for companies everywhere," says Weintraub. "The successful manager is one who will learn how to grow and keep the organization's best people. A fundamental premise of the book is that organizations will benefit more by focusing on developing their top performers instead of spending the majority of their attention on problem employees."

The authors are founders of the Babson College Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program, and have talked with more than 4,000 practicing managers and entrepreneurs about coaching and talent development over the past 10 years.

The Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business by James M. Hunt and Joseph R. Weintraub (2nd Edition, Sage Publications 2010) is available now online and in bookstores.

Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a leader in entrepreneurial management education. Babson grants BS degrees through its innovative undergraduate program, and grants MBA and custom MS and MBA degrees through the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to experienced managers worldwide. For information, visit www.babson.edu.

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