Synopses & Reviews
Coaching for Leadership
"This is a significant addition to the authors' earlier works, and comes at a most timely point in the continuing evolution of corporate leadership. The complexities of today's business challenges are prompting leaders at all levels to seek out professional coaching support, and this book does a great job in exploring the options, insights, and practices."
Jon R. Katzenbach, founding partner, Katzenbach Partners LLC, and author, Why Pride Matters
When it was published in 2000, Coaching for Leadership became an instant classic in the field of executive coaching. This second edition updates and expands on the original book and brings together the best executive coaches who offer a basic understanding of how coaching works, why it works, and how leaders can make the best use of the coaching process. This thoroughly revised edition reflects recent changes in coaching practices, includes well-researched best practices, and provides additional guidance and tools from the greatest leadership coaches from around the world. Each chapter in this important volume addresses a proven application, offers key principles of practice, and highlights critical learning points.
A timely book, Coaching for Leadership covers important new concepts and Shows when coaching is necessary and when it is needed most
- Explains how different coaching styles embrace various practices
- Shows how coaching applies to different situations
- Describes how to engage human resource professionals in the process
- Demonstrates how to manage leadership coaching programs
- Illustrates how to make leadership coaching align with key OD values, such as dignity and collaboration
- Shows how to negotiate the return on investment conversation between human resources and finance
- Details how to make process consultation work in leadership coaching.
The second edition of Coaching for Leadership is a practical resource that is filled with best practices, sample scenarios, case studies, and hands-on tools.
Synopsis
This book updates and expands the original CfL by revising existing chapter contributions, adding contributions to reflect changes in practice, offering well-researched best practices, and providing additional guidance and tools from the greatest leadership coaches from around the world. Where the original CfL did a great job of offering initial thoughts on the nascent field of coaching leaders, this new edition not only brings the field up to date, it shares much-needed “ best practices” both emerging and well-known practitioners. In addition to expanding the foundation of research and theory by top thinkers from the first book -- including Schien, Ulrich, and Hersey, this book will feature a lot more of “ what works” and “ what doesn’ t.” In addition, each chapter will address a proven application, offer key principles of practice, as well as key learning points.
In addition to revising and updating key chapters from the original, this new edition covers new concepts, such as: Addresses reasons for the rise of leadership coaching . Discusses who a coach should be to clients. Shows when coaching is necessary and when it will help the most. Explains what the different coaching styles are and what the various practices entail. Shows how coaching applies in different situations in businesses today. Describes how to engage HR professionals in the process. Demonstrates how to manage leadership coaching programs. Illustrates how to make leadership coaching align with key OD values, such as dignity and collaboration. Shows how to articulate the Return on Investment conversation between HR and Finance Showsin great detail how to make Process Consultation work in leadership coaching.
Also, this new edition features contributions from the best emerging practitioners. Designed to provide authoritative, tried and tested how-to-do-it guidance, it is packed with best practices, sample scenarios, case studies, and hands-on tools.
Synopsis
When it was published in 2000, Coaching for Leadership became an instant classic in the field of executive coaching. This second edition updates and expands on the original book and brings together the best executive coaches who offer a basic understanding of how coaching works, why it works, and how leaders can make the best use of the coaching process. This thoroughly revised edition reflects recent changes in coaching practices, includes well-researched best practices, and provides additional guidance and tools from the greatest leadership coaches from around the world. Each chapter in this important volume addresses a proven application, offers key principles of practice, and highlights critical learning points.
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Praise for Coaching for Leadership
"This book is the single best collection of first-rate articles on executive coaching. It covers every base from leading change to strategy and should be on the bookshelf of every student and practitioner of leadership and organizational development."
Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of business, University of Southern California,and author, On Becoming a Leader, and coauthor, Geeks and Geezers
"What a resource! In Coaching for Leadership, the world's best coaches come together to present an advanced tutorial on the art of coaching. Anyone interested in becoming an executive coach, either as an individual practice or within his or her organization, must immediately buy and read this essential hands-on guide."
Sally Helgesen, author, The Female Advantage and The Web of Inclusion
"This exceptional book is a must read for individuals at all levels of the organization. Coaches, HR managers, and executives hoping to become coaches will benefit greatly from the concepts, practices, and techniques brought to light in Coaching for Leadership."
Vijay Govindarajan, Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business, and director, Center for Global Leadership
"This book is very important and valuable reading for executives who are reaching retirement and moving into another important area of contribution: coaching others to become effective executives. It is no less significant for corporate HR executives who are increasingly called upon to manage coaching interventions on behalf of their companies' leaders."
D. Quinn Mills, professor, Harvard Business School
"Coaching is a critical business skill in today's fast-changing world. Coaching for Leadership pulls together insightful contributions from several renowned coaches. This book is a must read for leaders and future leaders."
Dr. Homa Bahrami, senior lecturer, Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley
About the Author
Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior for themselves, their people, and their teams. The American Management Association recently named Goldsmith as one of the fifty great thinkers and business leaders who have influenced the field of management over the last eighty years.
Laurence Lyons specializes in coaching directors and senior executives. Lyons is described by Henley Management College as a leading authority on organizational development and by the United Kingdom Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development as an internationally-renowned expert on technology, business, and work.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
Dedication.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Preface to the First Edition.
Acknowledgments.
About the Editors.
PART ONE: FOUNDATIONS OF COACHING.
1. The Accomplished Leader (Laurence S. Lyons).
2. Coaching and Consultation Revisited: Are They the Same? (Edgar H. Schein).
3. Situational Leadership and Executive Coaching (Paul Hersey and Roger Chevalier).
4. Coaching for Behavioral Change (Marshall Goldsmith).
PART TWO: BUILDING BLOCKS.
5. Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback (Marshall Goldsmith).
6. Making Coaching Work: Ten Easy Steps (Marc Effron).
7. Leading on Purpose: What Do You Care About? (Richard J. Leider).
8. Coaching for Effective Action: A Core Leadership Process (Victoria A. Guthrie and John R. Alexander).
9. Coaching Others to Accept Feedback (Joe Folkman).
10. Selling Up Is Leading Up: Coaching Your Manager Can Be Just as Important as Coaching Your Direct Reports (John Baldoni and Marshall Goldsmith).
PART THREE: LEADING CHANGE.
11. Coaching at the Heart of Strategy (Laurence S. Lyons).
12. Crossing Over: Making the Transition from Executive to Executive Coach (Brian Tracy).
13. Surviving the Transition from Line Manager to Executive Coach (David Noer).
14. Coaching Business Leaders (Richard Gauthier and David Giber).
15. Coaching and Culture: Toward the Global Coach (Michel Moral and Pamela Warnock).
16. When Leaders Are Coaches (James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner).
17. Coaching the Coaches (David Ulrich).
18. Why Coaching Clients Give Up and How Effective Goal Setting Can Make a Positive Difference (Marshall Goldsmith and Kelly Goldsmith).
PART FOUR: APPLICATIONS.
19. Case Study: Coaching for Change at Aventis (Laurence S. Lyons).
20. The Experience of Siemens in Spain (Marta H. Williams, Carlos J. Paulet, and Rebeca Arroyo).
21. The General Mills & Pillsbury Merger (Kevin D. Wilde).
22. The Agilent Technologies Story: Coaching Across the Enterprise (Brian O. Underhill, Dianne Anderson, and Robert A. Silva).
23. e-Coaching: Using the New Technology to Develop Tomorrow’s Leaders (Marshall Goldsmith).
24. Career Development: Anytime, Anyplace (Beverly L. Kaye).
25. Coaching in the Midst of Diversity (R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.).
26. Coaching Executives: Women Succeeding Globally (Nancy J. Adler).
Index.
Pfeiffer Publications Guide.