Coaching for leadership : how the world's greatest coaches help leaders learn / edited by Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons, Alyssa Freas.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldsmith, Marshall.

Lyons, Laurence

Freas, Alyssa

Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Executives--Training of.

Executives.

Leadership--Study and teaching.

Leadership.

Mentoring in business.

Business consultants.

Physical Description:

xxxvi, 392 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey Bass/Pfeiffer, [2000]

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 works Why coacking works How 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

Contents:

Part 1 Foundations of Coaching 1

1. Coaching at the Heart of Strategy / Laurence S. Lyons 3

2. Coaching for Behavioral Change / Marshall Goldsmith 21

3. Coaching Executives for Business Results / Alyssa M. Freas 27

4. Roots and Boundaries of Executive Coaching / Elizabeth Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot 43

5. Coaching and Consultation: Are They the Same? / Edgar H. Schein 65

Part 2 Role and Identity 75

6. Coaching Coaches / Richard Beckhard 77

7. The Leadership Mirror: Why Should I Follow You? / Richard J. Leider 83

8. When Leaders Are Coaches / James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner 91

9. Team Building Without Time Wasting / Marshall Goldsmith, Howard Morgan 103

10. Becoming a Coach for the Teams You Lead / Thomas G. Crane 111

11. How to Make the Most of the Coaching Relationship for the Person Being Coached / Don Grayson, Kerry Larson 121

12. Mentoring As Partnership / Chip R. Bell 131

13. Coaching from Below / Deepak (Dick) Sethi 143

14. Leadership and Power: Where Responsibility Makes the Difference / Bruce Lloyd 149

15. Starting Smart: Clarifying Coaching Goals and Roles / Robert Witherspoon 165

Part 3 Moments and Transitions 187

16. Coaching CEO Transitions / Dave Ulrich 189

17. The Coach-Leadership Moment / James A. Belasco 199

18. Learning Strategies for Newly Appointed Leaders / Julie M. Johnson 209

19. Continuous Improvement in Place of Training / Liz Thach, Tom Heinselman 219

20. Re-Grooving Critical Behavior / David Allen 231

21. Career Development

Anytime, Anyplace / Beverly Kaye 235

Part 4 Practice and Techniques of Coaching 245

22. Situational Leadership and Performance Coaching / Paul Hersey, Roger Chevalier 247

23. Processing Advising: An Approach to Coaching for Development / Victoria Guthrie, John Alexander 257

24. Decision Velocity: A Target for Coaching / Alan Fine 267

25. Coaching Leaders with 3 [times] 3 Feedback / Bert Decker 277

26. Interpersonal Techniques for Leaders / Judith M. Bardwick 285

27. Coaching Others to Accept Feedback / Joe Folkman 299

28. Coaching for Organizational Change / Bill Hawkins, Tom Pettey 307

29. The Big Three Derailment Factors in a Coaching Relationship / David Noer 317

Part 5 Expanding Situations 325

30. Becoming an Effective Global Leader / Jeremy Solomons, Maya Hu-Chan, Carlos E. Marin, Alastair G. Robertson 327

31. The Stanley International-Latin American Division Case Study / Robert M. Fulmer 337

32. Coaching in the Midst of Diversity / R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr. 349

33. Coaching Global Executives: Women Succeeding in a World Beyond Here / Nancy J. Adler 359

34. Coaching Free Agents / Marshall Goldsmith, Iain Somerville, Cathy Greenberg-Walt 369.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-380) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.

ISBN:

0787955175

OCLC:

43657165

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