Coaching for Managers
By Bernard Redshaw
ISBN 1 902899 032
Making 360 Degree Appraisal Work for You
By Bernard Wynne and David Clutterbuck
ISBN 1 902899 059
Published by Peter Honey Publications
£195 plus £4.50 p & p each.
From the ever-growing publishing stable of the publishing entrepreneur, author, psychologist, trainer, consultant Peter Honey come two significant resources. Most of the PH Publications so far have been his own or with Alan Mumford, but in one swoop two ‘new’ authors join his list.
The two resources are based on management/training subjects that are very much in vogue nowadays, although not fads — coaching and 360 degree appraisal. Both publications are complete resources for trainers to use in planning, designing and implementing training events in each of the subjects, and a trainer having these requires little else.
‘Coaching’ consists of 22 modules, ranging from The Influence of the Manager, The Learning Process, and Coaching Skills; through Learning Reviews, Coaching and Delegation, and Coaching and Appraisal; to Coach and Learner Relationships, and Action Planning. Each module includes a set of facilitator’s notes, OHP transparency masters, handouts and practical exercise briefs and notes, which can be combined to produce a coaching workshop or series of workshops. The modules are arranged in an optimum delivery sequence, on a pick and mix basis, and can form effectively a two-day workshop, for which a specimen program is included.
The author recommends that the program should be run by facilitators with some experience in the subject and who can, on the workshop, practise and act as models for coaching.
‘360 Degree Appraisal’ for which one of the authors is responsible for introducing the concept in this country from the USSR, takes a different but equally pragmatic format. The manual is in four parts. Part 1 – The 360 Degree Approach – is a comprehensive description of the approach that can be used by the facilitator as background reading prior to producing a program. This covers such topics as an introduction to the subject, its evolution, factors driving its growth, why use it, etc. Part 2 – Making it Happen – includes a number of tools and techniques to use in the training implementation. Part 3 contains the detailed programs with all the necessary materials, for four workshops to be implemented over about four days – workshops of 1 day, half a day, two hours and two days – and covers all aspects of the subject. Part 4 contains a set of case studies and articles relating to 360 degree appraisal.
Both these resource packs are value for money being substantial and powerful resources, significant for the trainer or facilitator facing the design and implementation of comprehensive programs covering these two subjects. Well worth every £.
Leslie Rae
March 2000
