Coaching for Leadership

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Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches

Coaching for Leadership, which was published in 2000, quickly became a classic in the field of executive coaching. This updated and expanded second edition brings together the best executive coaches to provide a basic understanding of how coaching works, why it works, and how leaders can make the most of the coaching process. This completely revised edition reflects recent changes in coaching practices, includes well-researched best practices, and offers additional guidance and tools from the world's top leadership coaches. Each chapter in this important book addresses a tried-and-true application, offers key principles of practice, and emphasises key learning points.

Coaching for Leadership The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches
Coaching for Leadership The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches


ABOUT THE AUTHOR Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority on assisting successful leaders in achieving positive, measurable change in their people and teams. Goldsmith was recently named by the American Management Association as one of fifty great thinkers and business leaders who have influenced management over the last eighty years.

Laurence Lyons is an executive coach who specialises in working with directors and senior executives. Lyons is described as a leading authority on organisational development by Henley Management College and an internationally renowned expert on technology, business, and work by the United Kingdom Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

TABLE OF CONTENTS in Coaching for Leadership 

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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).

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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).

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