Name: The People Manager Coach
Brand: Austin Macauley Publishers
SKU: 9781037114267
Price: 8.99 GBP
Availability: InStock
Author: Trevor Doherty

“Coaching and mentoring have become core skills for today's managers and leaders. They are essential components of the transition to a more collaborative style of management that releases people's energy and talent. Yet it's sometimes hard for a manager to let go of old ‘command and control’ habits. This book is a valuable guide to doing so”

– Prof. David Clutterbuck

Founder & Practice Lead
Clutterbuck Coaching and Mentoring International

What if effective leadership wasn’t about having the answers but about asking better questions?

In The People Manager Coach, Trevor Doherty shows how people managers can move beyond managing tasks to developing their people in ways that improve both capability and business performance.

Drawing on over two decades of experience in lean continuous improvement, people leadership, and professional coaching, Trevor shares the mindset and practical tools that enable managers to:

develop confidence and capability in their team
create accountability without control
improve performance through better conversations

At the heart of the book is the Forward-Movement Step, a clear and practical framework that helps managers structure coaching conversations while embedding learning in the flow of everyday work.

Blending real-world stories, actionable insights, and a human-centred approach, this book offers a new way to lead—one where developing people and delivering results are not competing priorities but inseparable.

If you are ready to move from solving problems for your team to enabling them to think, learn, and grow, this book will help you lead in a way that develops your people and delivers what matters.

Trevor Doherty is an accredited leadership coach and coach mentor whose work sits at the intersection of business excellence and human development. His approach is shaped by more than two decades of experience as a lean continuous improvement practitioner and people manager across global, highly regulated, and performance-driven organisations—evolving into a coaching-led approach to leadership. It was here that Trevor learned a pivotal lesson: focusing on process alone can only take you so far.

It was his transition into people leadership that fundamentally shifted his thinking. Faced with the lived realities of leading others, Trevor came to understand that sustainable performance is not created through tighter controls or better tools, but through enabling and empowering people to think, learn, and solve problems for themselves. This realisation sparked a deep curiosity about human behaviour, growth, and learning, ultimately leading him into professional coaching and mentoring.

Today, Trevor integrates continuous improvement, senior people leadership, and professional coaching to support growth-minded leaders who want to deliver meaningful business outcomes while developing their people in a way that is human, respectful, and sustainable. A lifelong learner, he continues to deepen his practice through coaching, supervision, mentoring coaches, participating in conferences and learning communities, and working closely with organisations that navigate complexity and change.

Authenticity sits at the heart of Trevor’s work. He believes leadership is not about having the answers but about creating the conditions where others can discover them for themselves.

This book reflects that commitment: an invitation for people managers to reimagine how they lead, the legacy they create, and who their people become along the way.