The Weekly Coaching Conversation (New Edition): A Business Fable about Taking Your Team’s Performance and Your Career to the Next Level Hardcover – April 28, 2015

I am a super fan! It's a very quick read and a fun story. Brian's approach to story telling reminds me of Ken Blanchard and the One Minute Manager series. And its backed by real data and research (in the final chapters.) This story revolves around a young sales manager who just won "sales leader of the year," but still has a ton to learn. I learned quite a bit about my leadership style(s) and a few tips to keep me in the optimal zone. I'm going to recommend this read a lot I. It will go on my shelf of "go to" books I share with young leaders whom I mentor, right next to my One Minute Manager series.

I really enjoyed the “fable” used to teach the concepts of coaching. It created a realistic and relatable person who experienced what many people experience today.The coaching framework is simple and gives a great starting point for managers who want to have better coaching conversations with their team.If you want to dive deeper into coaching and understand competencies, question frameworks, and more application you’ll need to find adding resources.

A few of my team members have been struggling to keep up... so I asked around for goodbooks that might help and the Weekly Coaching Coaching was recommendedby an old boss of mine.This book hit me straight in the heart and made me realize what I needto do to help them.(Spoiler alert: After a bit of soul searching I discovered I needed tochange my approach... stop acting like a "Nice-Guy manager" and becomemore of a "Coach"!:)What a great, inspiring read with lots of tactical take-aways. Couldnot recommend a book any higher.

My mentor recommended this book for a new role and very glad that it was passed down to me. Learned a lot of great ways to go from manager to leader and have a coach's perspective. I highlighted a lot of greate quotes and reminders. When I think about the the story behind behind the story it's amazing how many easy we can focus on process versus the reinforcement of positive behavior. Overall, great read!

The book is good, addresses important points but is very superficial. Perhaps it has been written intentionally in this way aiming to promote the website inasmuch as in the end of the book the author promotes the online tools ("we have literally had companies pay us hundred of thousands of dollars just for a program" - and its free for the reader). But even considering this possibility the book is somehow strange:* In a given chapter a character makes comment about a "Five Critical Coaching Questions" but he was interrupted by an event and was not able to finalized. Looks like it was part of the story but to my surprise the fable ends without mention what those five questions were (!!!)... in the appendix the author summarized all the message delivered in the fable and there those questions are reveled. I was wondering if the author got realized about this? If he did it intentionally or it was a mistaken...* Another problem is that the author encourages the reader to visit the website to get more information and also access some free videos BUT when I tried to access it, the website was "under construction" with this message:"Thanks so much for your interest in this new website. Rest assured, you will be among the first to know as soon as its released. Please be sure to watch for the email!"As the author mentioned, "I wanted to give you more to build on the momentum we've started to develop so that you can continue this journey we're on" - if you are looking for a momentum, this book will meet your expectation but for those who is interested in some good examples about coaching conversation and more about "how", it will not meets your expectation.

The best content for this book isn't actually in the book. You have to click/visit the links and watch a long masterclass where there is good information but it should be in the book. There's very little tactical information in the book and it feels intentional.

I go on phases of reading books... Sometimes I can't get through the entire thing because I'm busy, sometimes it's because I lose interest. This is one of those books that you MAKE time for. Incredible story line that keeps you coming back for more and all the while you're LEARNING the ways to "Be a Coach!".Definitely a must have for your self, team, and your business partners.

The fable half of the book is fine, and there are some good pointers in the second half. There are some ads at the back to buy Souza's system.