A Coach's Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders: Making the Most of The Leadership Challenge and the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)

by James M. Kouzes; Barry Z. Posner (Leavey School of Business and Administration and Santa Clara University); Elaine Biech (Ebb Associates Inc.)

• ISBN13: 9780470634561
• ISBN10: 0470634561
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Pfeiffer

Summary

Bring out the best in your leaders!Done well, leadership and coaching are closely intertwined: Good leaders coach and good coaches lead. Now, in A Coach's Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders, leadership experts Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner and coaching expert Elaine Biech show you how to incorporate the proven leadership development principles of the bestselling book, The Leadership Challenge to inject a new level of success into your coaching practice or program.A Coach's Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders introduces coaches to The Leadership Challenge model, the Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI), and The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership-Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart-and provides a road map for quickly and easily including them in your coaching regiment to:Help leaders develop precise critical skills within The Five PracticesDevelop high potential leaders to be even more effectiveEnable leaders to implement The Five Practices in their daily routineFacilitate a leader's transition to a new positionCustomize a program for the classroom, online, or one-on-one coachingAddress questions and facilitate solutions to common problemsMoreover, the book outlines the competencies of accomplished coaching and lists the "6Cs for Coaching"-six specific steps for taking your coaching process from start to finish-so you can apply The Five Practices to your own growth as a coach.Filled with best practices and success stories as well as worksheets and checklists, A Coach's Guide to Developing Exemplary Leaders hands you a powerful new tool to help your leaders move to excellence.

Table of Contents

Coaching to Improve the Five Practices

Accept the Leadership Challenge

Coaching to Model the Way

Coaching to Inspire a Shared Vision

Coaching to Challenge the Process

Coaching to Enable Others to Act

Coaching to Encourage the Heart

Improve Your Coaching Competence

Coaching for Success

Coaching Competencies

The Coaching Process

Coaching When Things Go Awry

Coach Yourself to Mastery

Reading List for Coaches

Index

About the Authors

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