TLC at Work: Training, Leading, Coaching All Types for Star Performance - Softcover

A very practical, feet-on-the-ground guide for developing workplace competencies and for providing TLC. Joining Dunning in this journey of personal and professional development is fun and highly worthwhile. -- W. Warner Burke, Ph.D., Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology & Education, Teachers College, Columbia University I've been waiting for a coaching resource that is this clear, this user-friendly, and this robust. This book will help anyone who trains, leads, or coaches other achieve better results in less time. -- Sharon Jordan-Evans, president, Jordan Evans Group; coauthor, Love `Em or Lose `Em and Love It, Don't Leave It A masterstroke in the field of talent development and a must for every HR leader, coach, and trainer who needs to teach cutting-edge competencies to people with distinctly different mind-sets and coach them to dramatically alter their behavior. -- Robert Hargrove, author, Masterful Coaching Provides a powerful toolbox of strategies, checklists, tips and techniques. Offers assistance to coaches, trainers, HR professionals, career counselors. * Fort Worth Star-Telegram * Offers a practical guide for coaches, trainers, supervisors and any leader to achieve professional and personal development. * Incentive Magazine * Highly recommended and superbly useful guidebook. Though intended for business use, its principles are also directly applicable to volunteers. * Bookwatch * Dunning shines in her discussion of personality traits and working with the dynamic uniqueness of individuals. * Biz Books by Jim Pawlak * Dunning provides detailed check lists throughout the book so readers can check their own or their client employees' progress. * HR Magazine * Breaking down Dunning's lessons to five competencies for workplace success makes coaching easier and leading others a less painstaking task. * Soundview Executive Book Summary * A comprehensive guide for anyone responsible for facilitating professional growth and development. * T&D Magazine *

For coaches, corporate trainers, human resources professionals, and career counselors-anyone responsible for facilitating professional growth and development in others-TLC at Work offers a start-to-finish process and a comprehensive fieldbook of hands-on, interactive tools. Drawing on the key concepts of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) personality inventory and her twenty years of experience working with personality type, award-winning author and consultant Donna Dunning defines and describes-in a measureable way-five core competencies essential for workplace success. She delivers all the practical strategies, assessment tools, and step-by-step advice needed to help employees become self-directed, mindful, skilled communicators, able to learn readily and adapt easily to the challenges of today's workplace.