Coaching is a core skill for trainers and other workplace learning and performance professionals. A skilled practitioner uses coaching to ""move mountains of self-imposed resistance that get in the way of individual actions and results,"" and, as the author also points out in the introduction, coaching is one the ""quickest ways"" for you to have a positive affect on your organization. Unfortunately, coaching is often confused with advice, business conversations, preaching, and counseling that serve the coach's goals, not the client. Knowing what to say, when to say it, and how to say it is part of the challenge of developing your coaching craft. ""Coaching Basics"" presents a targeted and focused methodology along with all the practical examples and exercises you need to begin your development as an effective coach. Trainers who want to improve their coaching skills, as well as organization development and human resources professionals wishing to build their coaching skills, will all find great value in this book. Readers can use the book's suggestions to begin coaching immediately.