The Tao of Coaching provides managers with coaching skills to have difficult conversations with employees and move teams forward. It teaches a simple structure using storytelling, summaries, exercises and humor to make the skills memorable and applicable to work. The content covers topics like eliciting feedback, giving feedback, overcoming coaching blocks, and coaching in a hurry using a problem, ideal outcome, blocks framework. The book aims to help readers connect coaching skills to their daily work and use them more often.