Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn

by Editor: Marshall Goldsmith; Editor: Laurence Lyons (Metacorp); Editor: Alyssa Freas (Executive Coaching Network)

• ISBN13: 9780787955175
• ISBN10: 0787955175
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

Put coaching into practice in your organization!Executive coaching is dramatically increasing in popularity. Leaders around the world are both using coached and becoming coaches. But, the understanding of what executive coaching is and how it can increases leaders' effectiveness has not grown as fast as the application of this process.Coaching for Leadership brings together the world's best executive coaches to give the reader an understanding of:How coaching worksWhy coacking worksHow leaders can make the best use of the coaching process"Coaching for Leadership provides you with the opportunity to access the best of the best. Their collective insights and advice represents a benchmark framework for those who coach or are responsible for developing the skills of coaches."--Charles J. Corace, director, management education & development, Johnson & Johnson

Table of Contents

Exhibits and Figures	ix
Foreword	xi
Preface	xv
Acknowledgments	xxi
A Personal Note	xxiii
About the Editors	xxv
About the Contributors	xxvi
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF COACHING	1	(74)
Coaching at the Heart of Strategy	3	(18)
Laurence S. Lyons
Coaching for Behavioral Change	21	(6)
Marshall Goldsmith
Coaching Executives for Business Results	27	(16)
Alyssa M. Freas
Roots and Boundaries of Executive Coaching	43	(22)
Elizabeth
Gifford Pinchot
Coaching and Consultation: Are They the Same?	65	(10)
Edgar H. Schein
PART TWO: ROLE AND IDENTITY	75	(112)
Coaching Coaches	77	(6)
Richard Beckhard
The Leadership Mirror: Why Should I Follow You?	83	(8)
Richard J. Leider
When Leaders Are Coaches	91	(12)
James M. Kouzes
Barry Z. Posner
Team Building Without Time Wasting	103	(8)
Marshall Goldsmith
Howard Morgan
Becoming a Coach for the Teams You Lead	111	(10)
Thomas G. Crane
How to Make the Most of the Coaching Relationship for the Person Being Coached	121	(10)
Don Grayson
Kerry Larson
Mentoring As Partnership	131	(12)
Chip R. Bell
Coaching from Below	143	(6)
Deepak (Dick) Sethi
Leadership and Power: Where Responsibility Makes the Difference	149	(16)
Bruce Lloyd
Starting Smart: Clarifying Coaching Goals and Roles	165	(22)
Robert Witherspoon
PART THREE: MOMENTS AND TRANSITIONS	187	(58)
Coaching CEO Transitions	189	(10)
Dave Ulrich
The Coach-Leadership Moment	199	(10)
James A. Belasco
Learning Strategies for Newly Appointed Leaders	209	(10)
Julie M. Johnson
Continuous Improvement in Place of Training	219	(12)
Liz Thach
Tom Heinselman
Re-Grooving Critical Behavior	231	(4)
David Allen
Career Development--Anytime, Anyplace	235	(10)
Beverly Kaye
PART FOUR: PRACTICE AND TECHNIQUES OF COACHING	245	(80)
Situational Leadership and Performance Coaching	247	(10)
Paul Hersey
Roger Chevalier
Processing Advising: An Approach to Coaching for Development	257	(10)
Victoria Guthrie
John Alexander
Decision Velocity: A Target for Coaching	267	(10)
Alan Fine
Coaching Leaders with 3 x 3 Feedback	277	(8)
Bert Decker
Interpersonal Techniques for Leaders	285	(14)
Judith M. Bardwick
Coaching Others to Accept Feedback	299	(8)
Joe Folkman
Coaching for Organizational Change	307	(10)
Bill Hawkins
Tom Petty
The Big Three Derailment Factors in a Coaching Relationship	317	(8)
David Noer
PART FIVE: EXPANDING SITUATIONS	325	(50)
Becoming an Effective Global Leader	327	(10)
Jeremy Solomons
Maya Hu-Chan
Carlos E. Marin
Alastair G. Robertson
The Stanley International-Latin American Division Case Study	337	(12)
Robert M. Fulmer
Coaching in the Midst of Diversity	349	(10)
R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.
Coaching Global Executives: Women Succeeding in a World Beyond Here	359	(10)
Nancy J. Adler
Coaching Free Agents	369	(6)
Marshall Goldsmith
Iain Somerville
Cathy Greenberg-Walt
References	375	(6)
Contact Information	381	(6)
Index	387