Coach Anyone To Succeed: The Everyday Skill Behind Great Managers, Parents and Mentors
The third title in the Leadership & Business series, after New Manager To Succeed and First Lead To Succeed, turns to a different kind of skill entirely. Organisations with a genuine coaching culture report 51% higher revenue than comparable businesses without one, and 62% of employees at those organisations are highly engaged — but Coach Anyone To Succeed isn't about becoming a certified professional coach. It's the underlying skill itself, usable by anyone, in any relationship, without any certification required.
The Core Skill-Set
The book builds from the ground up: active listening, powerful questions, the advice trap, silence, and reflection — the habits that separate a genuine coaching conversation from well-meaning advice-giving. From there it teaches the GROW model (Goal, Reality, Options, Will) in full, correctly credited to its real originator, Sir John Whitmore, with a complete worked example.
Coaching Different Relationships
Rather than treating coaching as a workplace-only skill, the book applies it across the relationships readers actually have: as a manager, as a parent, as a peer or friend, as a mentor, and — in its own dedicated chapter — coaching yourself. Further chapters cover coaching in writing, over video and across language barriers, coaching up, confidentiality, and group coaching.
An Honest Book About When Coaching Isn't the Answer
True to this series' standing editorial rule, the book is explicit about limits: when a coaching-style conversation isn't the right tool, common mistakes, and how to make the habit durable rather than a one-off technique. It will not claim coaching-style conversation is always the right approach, or that it fixes everything advice-giving cannot.