Don’t Work Stupid, Coach Yourself

40 Things Managers Won’t Tell You. A Step by Step Guide to Coach Yourself (Coaching for Success Series)

Non-Fiction - Self Help
114 Pages
Reviewed on 08/13/2019
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Author Biography

Mark Baggesen has been a manager, writer and mentor to more than 100 people for the last 25 years. He is an expert at turning chaos into success, recovering failed technology projects and complex problem solving. In his book "Don't Work Stupid Coach Yourself," he is paying it forward to legions of people, so they can have amazing careers and lives.

He lives in the NW Suburbs of Chicago and enjoys reading non-fiction, good music, arts and culture, and helping non-profits.

Feel free to reach out to him via his website coachyourselfbooks.com

    Book Review

Reviewed by Vernita Naylor for Readers' Favorite

Coaching is a strategy of tapping into who you really are, how to dream your biggest dreams and reach your fullest potential. In this simple user-friendly guide, Don’t Work Stupid, Coach Yourself: 40 Things Managers Won’t Tell You (Coaching for Success Series) by Mark A. Baggesen, the reader's life will be transformed by learning coaching techniques while implementing self-improvement principles. This guide will walk readers through eleven chapters while they perform some exercises and answer questions to assist them with self-improvement. If you work through the guide effectively, you will be on your way to a better future. To get the best use of the guide, transparency and honesty are key. Each chapter -- from Where Have You Been? and Basic Skills for Business to Managing Your Manager -- is designed to help the reader ask thought-provoking questions about themselves.

I found this guide extremely helpful and power-packed because it contains a wealth of useful information. This guide has everything from lessons learned, a summary which provides an overview of each chapter to make sure that the reader understands the material, in-depth questions to ask themselves, to additional resources that you can use -- all essential elements for self-coaching. Information contained in this guide is ideal, whether you use it for your business or personal life. We all need improvement in our lives so if you're ready for a change, roll up your sleeves and get your copy of this book today! Pass it on!