Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

by Richard E. Boyatzis, Ellen Van Oosten, Melvin L. Smith

Book Overview

You're trying to help--but is it working?

Helping others is a good thing. Often, as a leader, manager, doctor, teacher, or coach, it's central to your job. But even the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We almost always focus on trying to "fix" people, correcting problems or filling the gaps between where they are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn't work well,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1633696561
• ISBN13: 9781633696563
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.4"