Helping People Change: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth Audiobook (Free)

You’re wanting to help-but is it working?

Helping others is an excellent thing. Often, being a leader, manager, doctor, instructor, or trainer, it’s central to your job. But also the most well-intentioned efforts to help others can be undermined by a simple truth: We more often than not focus on seeking to ‘fix’ people, fixing problems or filling the gaps between where these are and where we think they should be. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work well, if at all, to inspire sustained learning or positive change..Read More about Helping People Modification: Coaching with Compassion for Lifelong Learning and Growth

There’s an easier way. With this powerful, practical book, emotional intelligence professional Richard Boyatzis and Weatherhead College of Management co-workers Melvin Smith and Ellen Vehicle Oosten present an obvious and hopeful message. The way to help someone learn and change, they say, cannot be focused primarily on fixing problems, but rather must connect to that person’s positive vision of themselves or an inspiring dream or goal they’ve long kept. This is exactly what great instructors do-they know that people pull energy off their visions and dreams, which same energy sustains their initiatives to change, even through difficult moments. In contrast, problem-centered approaches result in physiological responses that make a person defensive and less available to new ideas.