Abstract

The Practical Leader series offers a roadmap for individuals striving to achieve leadership effectiveness within the context of today's complex world. Each book explores a different essential element of successful leadership, providing readers with insightful, real-world perspectives, as well as practical tools and techniques, to help them maximize their potential personally and professionally.
Real-life stories, practical tips and techniques, and the Anytime Coaching model equip managers with a set of coaching tools they can use immediately to transform the way they work with employees and colleagues. This second edition describes how recent findings in neuroscience support the effectiveness of Anytime Coaching practices. You will also discover how the practice of mindfulness can enhance your ability to observe yourself and others. Practical tools and exercises to help you be more present, aware, and focused in day-to-day interactions are included.
Whether you lead a cross-functional team on a short-term project or formally manage large groups of people on a daily basis, Anytime Coaching will help you improve performance and achieve results.
"This simple, practical approach to coaching makes it possible for managers to be great coaches anytime. Understand and apply this simple coaching model immediately and transform your workplace!" --Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times bestselling author of Triggers, MOJO, and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"The practices and principles offered in Anytime Coaching cut through to the basics of what you need to make a difference in other people's lives. This book is remarkably well-organized, clear, and deep; it is for coaches at all levels of experience, and for anyone who wants to be a masterful, wise communicator." --Tara Brach, Ph.D., author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge

"Expanded and updated with the latest research from the fields of neuroscience and mindfulness, this new edition of Anytime Coaching is a well-organized, easy-to-read roadmap for managers and leaders who want to unlock the potential of their team members through coaching. Once you read it, you'll use it again and again as an essential reference on your leadership bookshelf. --Scott Eblin, author of The Next Level and Overworked and Overwhelmed

Teresa Wedding Kloster is an executive coach and consultant in leadership development.  Her company, Kloster and Associates, helps organizations develop leaders through executive coaching, designing leadership development strategies and programs, and delivering workshops on leadership, management, and coaching skills, emotional intelligence, critical thinking, and performance management.

Wendy Sherwin Swire is Principal of Swire Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm that improves workplace performance through executive coaching, consulting, training, neuroleadership, and conflict resolution services. A certified executive coach, she works with clients throughout the United States as well as in Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa.