Executive coaches

Written as a business fable, The Executive Coach in the Corporate Forest is the story of a gifted executive coach, J. C. Williams, and his coaching relationships with his varied business clients-all with their own professional challenges. The book offers engaging stories, has believable characters with realistic problems, and illustrates the structure and content of the coaching process. The book is a quick read-something any busy executive could read on a flight between Washington, DC and Boston-and is time very well spent, not only for the individual executive but for her or his company's future. Although executive coaching has become increasingly popular with organizations across the globe because of its effectiveness, many people don't know what it looks like until they actually commit to the process. The confidentiality involved in coaching between coach and client is somewhat responsible for the mysteriousness of the process. That's why Dr. Steve Gladis has written The Executive Coach in the Corporate Forest to help leaders better see and understand how executive coaching works.

Author: Steve Gladis
Perfect Paperback: 138 pages
Company: HRD Press, Inc (2008-07-15)
ISBN: 159996130X
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Dubbed "the executive's new coach" by Fortune Magazine , Peter deLisser teaches managers how to "shut up and listen," how to make "every conversation a sales call" and even how to deal with "a boss who's a screamer."

Author: Peter Delisser
Paperback: 154 pages
Company: Chandler House Press (1999-06)
ISBN: 188628444X
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Here's how to start your personal service business. Develop an icon, logo, and motto for your coaching clients. As a job or career coach, an executive coach, or a life coach, you will be presenting and classifying your client's competencies, writing resumes, cover letters, and creating a wide variety of business correspondence including sales letters, news releases, and direct mail copy.

You will be planning events for your clients and their prospective employers. You'll need to really work a room to find clients as well as niches or jobs for clients when networking at professional associations and trade shows. Most frequently, you'll be asked to write, evaluate, and repackage resumes, cover letters, and other summaries of qualifications of your clients.

A resume is a summary of qualifications. A career coach helps clients find success by taking step-by-step detailed, concrete strategies that solve specific problems, get results, and reach a defined goal. A resume writing business online can be combined with a career coaching enterprise. The steps are outlined here for you to follow in chronological order to open and operate a resume-writing service business and also a career coaching enterprise, online from your home, mobile location, or office. You can telecommute online and still help people find direction by offering information, training, or consulting services.

Here's how to open an online business at home presenting and packaging your clients' competencies. Make your living writing resumes, business letters, and being a job coach. Help clients obtain appoints for interviews that may eventually lead to finding work. Write and repackage resumes and all types of business correspondence?from cover letters and follow-ups to direct mail or trade show sales letters.

Author: Anne Hart
Paperback: 318 pages
Company: ASJA Press (2005-10-07) (2005-10-07)
ISBN: 0595371000
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Coached to Lead is the first consumer?s guide to executive coaching. Drawing on her twenty years of experience and direct research with an elite international clientele, renowned CEO coach Susan Battley offers step-by-step advice for achieving the same extraordinary results that top leaders get from executive coaching. Filled with insider tips, engaging real-life cases, and handy checklists and sample documents, Coached to Lead will help anyone who considers working with a professional coach to make smart decisions that maximize valuable resources. Battley reveals all the insider secrets about coaching?how to determine your coaching readiness, how to choose the right coach, and how to use a winning five-step coaching model. She covers all the issues commonly raised as well as not-so-obvious situations and troubleshooting.

Author: Susan Battley
Hardcover: 272 pages
Company: Jossey-Bass (2006-04-14)
ISBN: 0787981443
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If you are a manager or executive who is beginning a coaching engagement or who is considering a developmental plan that calls for an executive coach, you need more than a desire to improve your leadership capabilities. You also need to understand how to get the most from your work with a professional coach. This guide can help you to understand the unique nature of a coaching engagement and to assess your readiness to embark on this method of professional development. The book describes the three main elements of a coaching engagement?assessment, challenge, and support? and provides information on how you can collaborate with your coach in each of these aspects to get the maximum benefits from coaching. You will also learn how to recognize and overcome your resistance to the disruption and discomfort brought about by the behavioral changes that coaching addresses.

Author: Center for Creative Leadership, Wayne Hart, Karen Kirkland
Paperback: 30 pages
Company: Pfeiffer (2007-03-19)
ISBN: 1882197690
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Leadership in the top management ranks is often a lonely business. It can be difficult to get accurate feedback, for example, and it gets more difficult the higher you move in an organization. Many managers are reluctant to ?open up? to colleagues, and sometimes it may be ill advised to do so. Yet it?s difficult to improve leadership skills and job performance without input from others about strengths, weaknesses, and options for improvement. Many managers recognize that to focus their personal development plans they need the uninterrupted time and attention of a skilled, objective facilitator. This guidebook is for managers who are considering executive coaching as a tool in their personal leadership development. It describes what executive coaching is, and can help you decide whether coaching is appropriate for your situation. You?ll also learn how to locate and select a qualified coach with the professional and personal credentials and characteristics that match your developmental needs so that you can achieve the goals you?ve set.

Author: Center for Creative Leadership, Karen K. Miller, Wayne Hart
Paperback: 26 pages
Company: Pfeiffer (2007-03-19)
ISBN: 1882197631
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In this unique book, you'll read conversations between leaders and their executive coaches. Discover what leaders and their coaches discuss, and how coaching helps good leaders be great.? "Eavesdrop" on executive coaching sessions.
? Get the sound and feel of coaching.
? Learn how coaching works & why it helps.
? Answer your own questions about coaching.

For executives, managers, and leaders who are being coached or who want to coach their own people more effectively.

Author: Mark Kelly, Robert Ferguson, George Alwon
Paperback: 68 pages
Company: Mark Kelly Books (2006-02-28)
ISBN: 0970460678
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This is a handbook for coaching and leadership development. Emotional intelligence is becoming increasingly popular as a vehicle for coaching people and developing leaders. This book covers 21 competencies within the four dimensions of emotional intelligence:1. Self-Awareness 2. Self-Management 3. People Radar 4. People Skills

As executive coaches, we have worked with many leaders at all levels over the years. Some were quite deficient at many elements of emotional intelligence and needed some basic training in working effectively with people. Most have been competent at several dimensions of emotional intelligence and wanted to build on their strengths in response to new challenges. This book was written for both groups.

We wrote it as a practical guide for busy people who need a handy desk reference for a complicated subject. If you are a manager, use it to coach others, to prepare performance evaluations, to coach yourself. If you are coaching others, use it to help define and hone in on people?s strengths and weaknesses.

Author: Mark Kelly, Robert Ferguson
Paperback: 212 pages
Company: Mark Kelly Books (2005-08-30)
ISBN: 0970460627
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The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with over 1,000 examples of penetrating questions. Covering the gamut from basic techniques like options and actions to advanced concepts such as challenge and reframing, Coaching Questions is a book that will find a home on any coach's short list of handy references. Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills includes: 1. Dozens of asking tools, models, and strategies. 2. The top ten asking mistakes coaches make, and how to correct each one. 3. Nearly 1200 examples of powerful questions from real coaching situations. 4. Destiny discovery tools organized in a four-part life-purpose model . 5. Overviews of 15 popular coaching niches, with a tool and examples for each. 6. A schedule of training exercises to help you become a "Master of Asking".

Author: Tony Stoltzfus
Paperback: 100 pages
Company: Pegasus Creative Arts (2008-04-24) (2008-04-24)
ISBN: 0979416361
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Leadership coaching has become vitally important to todays most successful businesses. The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching is a landmark resource that presents a variety of perspectives and best practices from todays top executive coaches. It provides valuable guidance on exactly what the best coaches are now doing to get the most out of leaders, for now and into the future. Revealing core philosophies, critical capabilities, and the secrets of coaching success, this one-of-a-kind guide includes essays from fifty top coaches, including Ken Blanchard and Frances Hesselbein. Packed with cutting-edge ideas and proven best practices, this is the definitive source of information for anyone dealing with coaching.

Author: Howard Morgan, Phil Harkins, Marshall Goldsmith
Hardcover: 304 pages
Company: Wiley (2004-12-16)
ISBN: 0471705462
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