Unlocking Potential

Outline

Unlocking Potential (2014) shows leaders how coaching can help people and teams reach their full potential. Michael K. Simpson explains four principles of effective coaching, including building trust and creating commitment, and seven practical skills such as challenging assumptions, giving effective feedback, and tapping into talent. The book offers tools for leaders who want to develop others and improve performance across an organisation.

• Coaching is a way for leaders to help individuals and teams reach their full potential.
• Effective coaching rests on four principles, including building trust and creating commitment.
• The book teaches seven practical coaching skills, such as challenging assumptions and giving effective feedback.
• Leaders can tap into the talent people already have instead of trying to push results from the outside.
• The tools are meant to help leaders develop others and improve performance across an organisation.

Michael K. Simpson is an executive coach and a senior consultant to FranklinCovey. He has spent more than twenty-five years training executives and managers to become effective coaches and leaders.