John Whitmore - Coaching for Performance: The Principles and Practices of Coaching and Leadership

Coaching for Performance raises the bar.
Jorge Paulo Lemann, Co-Founder, 3G Capital, and Director, The Kraft Heinz Company

This remarkable new edition of Coaching for Performance will assure its gold standard status for another generation. It sets out how to measure the impact which, until now, has been the holy grail of coaching demonstrating that the return on investment is phenomenal. Coaching for Performance is not only a must-read, it is also a book you need to keep by your side as a must-reference.
Karen Mathre, Coaching Center of Excellence Leader, Medtronic

Its people that make the difference. Coaching for Performance complements our culture and has considerably improved how we work together and the quality of our collaboration, leading to a measurable impact on our business.
Pat Roche, President, Industrial Group, Moog Inc.

Transforming our capitalist system to embody the principles of sustainability is one of the grand challenges of our time. Sir John and Performance Consultants demonstrate clearly that this system-wide transformation depends on personal transformation too. Coaching is fundamental to enabling this. A vivid and fresh book that I highly recommend.
Colin le Duc, Co-Founder, Generation Investment Management

As a repeat customer of Performance Consultants, I have seen their coaching work in action and how it transforms leaders and organizational culture. This book is a must-read.
Thorsten Klein, Director, Global Talent & Organization Development, eBay

Leading is about risk-taking and showing the people in your organization that you will give them the trust, and the responsibility, to find their own way. How you do this can be discovered in this book.
Daniel Quirici, Group Managing Director, Echo Capital UK Ltd

This edition of Coaching for Performance synthesizes Sir Johns vision and must be the one book that all business leaders have to hand as support for their daily management issues.
Michael Hacking, Founder and CEO, Mocoh SA

This book is about more than coaching; it is undoubtedly a valuable twenty-first-century strategic organizational development resource. The insights, frameworks, and resources provided can help ensure organizations manifest the ROI that may be realized from coaching-informed interventions.
Vyla Rollins, Executive Director, London Business School Leadership Institute

Transformational coaching enabled me to become a more effective leader, which resulted in the release of huge energy into the business from our people and tripled profitability.
John Duggan, former Chairman and Chief Executive, Gazeley

The principles outlined in this book have provided an impetus for change in business that helps improve employee job satisfaction and delivers improved results.
Patrick Murphy, former Chairman, Ryanair

Coaching is a proven way to achieve success and this book excels in laying out that path and, crucially, how to measure the impact along the way. This new edition is itself the highest-performing player in its field.
Juliet de Baubigny, Senior Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers

My organization is passionate about harnessing the potential of the finest ingredients. The Coaching for Performance program enabled me to apply that passion to our greatest resource our people.
Sandeep Verma, Managing Director, Liz Earle

Organizations whose leaders adopt a coaching style get to market first and serve their customers, employees, and shareholders best. This book is essential reading for every leader from the CEO to each digital transformation practitioner.
Martin Toth, Co-Founder, Danowsky Gruhn Toth & Partner

For those implementing Lean, Coaching for Performance puts empathy, heart, and purpose right at the center of it, and gives practitioners a turbo boost to improve performance.
Caroline Healy, Senior HR Manager, Medtronic

Performance Consultants are without doubt the market leaders in coaching globally. This new edition brilliantly shows how success comes from holistically maximizing the potential of people, and strong ethical principles, rather than a narrow focus on profit.
David Sanders, Founder, CleanTech Advisory, former Director, Carbon Trust

Coaching for Performance has become a bible of the art, process and understanding of coaching.
David Hemery CBE DL, Olympic gold medalist, Founder of 21st Century Legacy

This new work offers great wisdom and will help take coaching in organizations to a whole new standard and relevance. Not only a must-read but a must to act on.
Robert J. Kriegel Ph.D., author of international bestseller If It Aint Broke BREAK IT!

Coaching for Performance should be required reading for anyone interested in power.
Jane Renton, author of The Economist: Coaching and Mentoring

Coaching for Performance is a real eye-opener that will transform your vision of organizations and the power of coaching. An organizations success depends on its human capital. Leaders who coach can unlock massive reserves of potential, build high-performance teams, and deliver extraordinary results.
Mark Hoijtink, President EMEA, Hasbro

I recommend Coaching for Performance , both the book and the course, to all our leaders at Sellafield Ltd and I highly recommend it to all people leaders.
Mark Drummond, Talent and Leadership, Sellafield Ltd

The Fifth Edition appropriately contains reference to coaching for safety performance. The partnership we formed with Performance Consultants has resulted in the large-scale roll-out of a successful safety leadership program, based on Coaching for Performance .
James Thieme, Global HSE Manager, Linde AG, Engineering Division

Effective leadership requires a shift from being the smartest in the room to enabling the team to be smarter than us. Coaching for Performance opens the door to that paradigm shift.
Jeffrey Wu, General Manager, Internal Audit & Risk Management, Zhenro Group

Coaching for Performance is a magisterial masterpiece of leadership coaching and a must-read for global business leaders in this complex age of new industrial revolution.
ahin Yaman, leading World Trade Organization expert and strategist

This skilfully updated edition of Sir John Whitmores seminal book is an essential part of coaching literature.
Liz Hall, Editor, Coaching at Work

The Fifth Edition will inspire a whole new generation with its important messages about our values, behaviors, and responsibilities.
Graham Alexander, SuperCoach, GROW model originator, Chairman of The Alexander Partnership, author of Tales from the Top and SuperCoaching

Coaching for Performance is a timeless gem that gave my career a whole new turn. It explains how coaching turns theoretical knowledge acquired in training into continuously improved performance in practice.
Irene Kinuthia, Regional Academic Director, Strathmore Business School

This updated edition of the coaching bible is more relevant now than ever. A flourishing coaching culture provides the opportunity to re-set the vital relationship between employer and employee, inspiring employees with the passion and loyalty to go further to achieve their potential and, alongside it, deliver significant advantage to the business.
Nicky Gaskell, Social Impact Communications Consultant, PRCA Awards 2016

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