1979 Book - A Manager’s Guide to Coaching
David Megginson and Tom Boydell wrote this booklet for coaches for managers and trainers of managers in the United Kingdom. In this, they defined coaching as: “a process in which a manager, through direct discussion and guided activity, helps a colleague to learn to solve a problem, or to do a task better than would otherwise have been the case” (p. 5). Megginson and Boydell saw that coaching was concerned with improved task performance and therefore central to an organization’s bottom line.
One concept that grabbed my attention was the definition of “one of the skills of a good coach is that his ideas become merged with the ideas of those he is coaching.” This corresponds to my belief that neither my client nor I am the same after we have worked together.
Key coaching skills addressed in this booklet include: attending, paraphrasing, recognizing and expressing feelings, suspending judgment, silence, drawing out, and giving and receiving feedback. Just think, almost 30 years ago the skills of coaching align with the primary coaching skills used today.
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Comment by patrick williams on 27 April 2008:
Thanks for posting this book….i love when we find more proof that coaching was not just invented in the 90s…but had some early visionaries of the power of the process before it moved to Professional status