Being in charge of your own small business means that you should know everything, especially in front of your staff! But even if you don't know it all there will be times when you will have to give some training and coaching. Sales training, management training, performance coaching - all may be new to you

What do you if you have to provide sales training or coaching to someone. How do you identify training needs and how do you become an effective trainer or coach?

Take a look at these books which will give you some ideas on how to become a mentor and teacher.

The NLP Coach

This comprehensive guide to NLP (neuro-linguistic programming) provides information on techniques that aim to help the reader achieve success at work and at home. From discovering how to enjoying better physical and emotional health, this book shows how to apply NLP principles in any situation.

Effective Coaching

An introductory primer on the fundamentals of coaching in the business environment. Using a practical approach, the author explores key models, tools and skills necessary to develop into an effective coach. Case studies are used throughout.

NLP for Managers

NLP, or Neuro Linguistic Programming, is the study of what behaviour works. It shows how, by following models of successful thought and behaviour in others, managers can reproduce excellence. This work shows how to master the NLP way of thinking and use it in a business context. It can be used in areas of: goal setting; leadership; selling and negotiating; problem solving; career advancement; professional creativity; public speaking; relationships and team building; learning and long-term memory; visual skills, and better communication.

The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work

This reference explains the nature of coaching and provides a step-by-step blueprint for successful coaching methods, models and tools. The book also contains case studies and insights into how to enhance personal and organizational effectiveness, performance and growth.

The Life Coaching Handbook

If you are considering life coaching as a career, then meet your winning coach — The Life Coaching Handbook. This is a complete guide to creating and sustaining your practice, a comprehensive resource for coaching yourself towards a more fulfilled life, and a reference and companion that will continue to serve you through your professional life. As you read this handbook you will begin to think, feel and act like a coach. From there, it is one small step to being a brilliant, professional life coach. For life.

Time Management Workshop

This text provides the hands-on instruction and practical tools needed to design and lead effective training sessions. Tools include, lesson plans, overheads, learning exercises, lecture notes, worksheets and examples.

Big Book of Humorous Training Games

This book emphasizes "humour" in each of its 50 games. The games cover popular topics that most trainers cover: humour in presentations, customer service, motivating people, teambuilding and creative problem-solving.

100 Training Games: Textbook

From the author of the bestselling Basic Training for Trainers comes this lively, inventive collection of instructional aids that are perfect for developing abilities in communication, teamwork, perception skills, and more. Simulations, role-plays, and exercises can be dramatically enhanced using these games. Each game is self-contained and provides all the necessary instruction and materials.

Team-building Workshop

This book contains tools and information required to design and deliver effective, on-target corporate training sessions on the topic of team-building. It is designed so managers can facilitate team-building themselves, without prior instruction or training.

The Manager as Coach and Mentor

A description of the principles of coaching and mentoring, seeking to enable the reader to assess and develop their ability to improve the performance of others. It addresses: the key skills and appropriate coaching styles; conducting effective feedback and progress reviews; establishing your own competence through a series of simple self-assessments; putting learning theories into practice; drawing up individual "learning contracts"; using mentoring to encourage and support learning; and designing successful development programmes.

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