Coaching for performance people skills for professionals whitmore john on amazoncom free shipping on qualifying offers coaching for performance people skills for professionals. This book teaches the skills and art of good coaching and how to realize its value in unlocking peoples potential to maximize their own performance chapters 1 3 define coaching and its business application discuss the manager as coach and the managers role and examine the context of change chapter 4 considers the two key elements of coaching awareness and responsibility and lists . Coaching for performance peo ple skills f or professionals the business agenda at the start of the twenty first century focuses on working with change and developing peoples potential and. Skills and performance coaching is spc is about assisting someone to learn how to do something better the goal of spc is to improve someones skills and performance in a particular domain of human functioning unlike other forms of coaching the scope and success of which may be entirely defined and determined by the coachee spc often