Sara Canaday - Coaching Essentials for Managers

Sara Canadays Coaching Essentials for Managers is the ultimate guide to retaining and engaging your employees. Its packed with valuable information, real-world scenarios, and practical exercises that reinforce learning. Readers will walk away feeling fully prepared to coach and inspire their employees to do their best and most engaged work.

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith,Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Wont Get You There

In Coaching Essentials for Managers, Sara Canaday demystifies the coaching process and makes it accessible for any manager who wants to play a significant role in employees growth and development. She provides a valuable start-to-finish blueprint for effective coaching with strategies that are easy to understand and simple to apply. Whats unique about this book is that she doesnt just tell you how to be a successful workplace coach, she shows you exactly what that looks like through case studies and dialogue for a more powerful impact. This book should be required reading for every manager who wants to develop a high-performing team and retain top talent.

Keith Ferrazzi, American entrepreneur, global thought leader, and chairman of Ferrazzi Greenlight

As a content strategist and former business book editor, my aim is to provide learners with skills they can use to make their jobs easier, more manageable, and increasingly rewarding. Coaching Essentials for Managers from Sara Canaday does just that! In this book, Sara highlights valuable insights from her experience as a corporate executive and leadership educator that can help managers transform their teams through the power of coaching. The practical tips and helpful scenarios are exceptional resources. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in improving their coaching skills and increasing their impact.

Susan R. Williams, senior content manager, business at LinkedIn Learning

While companies are scrambling to retain their employees by offering stay-on bonuses and extended benefits, there is one thing leaders can do to give employees what they really want: a chance to learn and progress. Sara Canadays Coaching Essentials for Managers is the handbook for how to accomplish that. This uniquely compelling book provides readers with specific strategies and tools they can use to help inspire their employees to achieve their best and support their professional goals.

Dr. Marcia Reynolds, author of Coach the Person, Not the Problem and The Discomfort Zone

In Coaching Essentials for Managers, Sara provides leadership wisdom that packs a powerful punch. Ive always taken pride in helping my employees reach their potential and fulfill their career aspirations, and the strategies in this book have already helped me do just that. Sara has a unique way of transforming leadership principles and theories into actionable strategies, taking the reader from why to how. She also uses authentic examples and vignettes to drive home her key points with real impact. If youre looking for the shortest path to coaching excellence, this book is for you.

Jennifer Webb, director of marketing at Dell Technologies

In a time and world where coaching is the missing link for leadership, culture, and engagement, Sara Canaday delivers the definitive solution in Coaching Essentials for Managers. Sara is right on the mark in stating that coaching is a leadership superpower, and Id go so far as to say that coaching is the leadership superpower. Organizations and leaders have lost their way when it comes to developing and growing their people. Thankfully, Sara offers us a light to help us find our way back as leaders and organizations, and that light comes in the form of Coaching Essentials for Managers.

Jeff Nischwitz, chief impact officer at CoreX Legal, speaker, coach, and author of Snow Globe Leadership: Shaken Not Settled

As an executive coach, I appreciate the key strategies and principles in Saras book, Coaching Essentials for Managers. Ive watched hundreds of leaders shy away from taking a more active approach to coaching because they were intimidated by the process or felt ill-equipped to do it effectively. This resource is what they need. If you are new to coaching or looking to strengthen your coaching skills as a manager, you will find this book enlightening, easy to follow, and full of actionable strategies you can apply immediately.

Muriel Maignan Wilkins, cofounder of Paravis Partners and podcast host of HBRs Coaching Real Leaders

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