Executive coaching

In this book, the authors take on the role of the Sherpa: enabling, advising and assisting. The executive, like climbers on Everest, must endure the hardships, put forth the effort, be subject to the risks involved in reaching their goals. Ultimately, they must reach the summit through their own skill and will. On Everest, there is no quick and easy way to reach the summit. You'd think a straightforward approach would be a helicopter to the top. Great idea, but the air at high altitude is too thin for a helicopter to sustain flight. During the arduous climb, a Sherpa does not make decisions. The Sherpa makes recommendations, and the Sherpa gives tips, tricks, and techniques to make the climb easier but does NOT climb for the client. The client has to make the decisions once the Sherpa has offered all the alternatives. In coaching, you need a process, and you must respect the process. No shortcuts, and no detours. Limit the playing field to professional issues, and then to allow the client to do the climbing on their way to the summit. Every situation is unique, but without a map for the process, a defined system, there's no way you'll be able to locate and reach your client's goals.

Author: Brenda Corbett, Judith Colemon
Hardcover: 240 pages
Company: South-Western Educational Pub (2005-08-23)
ISBN: 0324407076
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Praise for Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart

"In this book, O'Neill brings form and structure to the art of executive coaching. Novices are provided a path while seasoned practitioners will find affirmation."
–Daryl R. Conner, CEO and president, ODR-USA, Inc.

"Mary Beth O'Neill's executive coaching gave me the tools and clarity to become a far more effective leader and change agent. The bottom line was that we succeeded with a monumental organizational turnaround that had seemed impossible to accomplish."
–Eric Stevens, former CEO, Courage Center

"O'Neill writes in a way that allows you to see this experienced coach in action. What a wonderful way to learn!"
–Geoff Bellman, consultant and author, The Consultant's Calling

"Mary Beth brings a keen business focus to coaching by not just contributing insights but through helping me and my team gain the insights that we need to solve our own problems. She has the ability to see through the sometimes chaotic dialogue and personalities in order to help a team focus on the real issues and dynamics that can impede organizations from achieving their goals."
–John C. Nicol, general manager, MSN Media Network

"Effective leaders require courage, compassion, and initiative. O'Neill's systems-based coaching serves as a guide for both coaches and executives to better enable good decisions and good decision-makers."
–Paul D. Purcell, president, Beacon Development Group

"With Mary Beth O'Neill's coaching, I've become the kind of leader who balances both the needs to get results and to develop great working relationships.?Since I started working with her, I've won accolades as the Top Innovator for my company, and as Professional of the Year for my industry.?More important, I've been able to scope my job in a way that allows me to learn and contribute at the same time, all the while delivering great results to the bottom line."
–Lynann Bradbury, vice president, Waggener Edstrom

Author: Mary Beth A. O'Neill
Hardcover: 352 pages
Company: Jossey-Bass (2007-07-27)
ISBN: 0787986399
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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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Coaching has become an important way for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals to adapt their skills to a changing environment. This book provides a comprehensive translation of psychotherapy theory and skills for the would-be executive coach. It was written to help clinical mental health practitioners understand the culture and expectations of the corporate and business world, as well as how to use their hard-earned skills effectively in executive coaching.

The book begins with a clear explanation of how coaching differs from counseling and how to explain this to prospective new clients. Eight chapters translate popular therapies into coaching strategies, along with a guide for assessing executives. One chapter describes the challenges women face as managers and executives and proposes effective coaching methods. Lessons from successful athletic coaches are integrated into consulting skills. Essential business school lessons in leadership, marketing, and the corporate viewpoint and vocabulary are included for the therapist seeking greater understanding of the executive's point of view. A final chapter describes how to make the transition from the world of therapy to the workplace world of the corporate coach.

Author: Bruce Peltier
Paperback: 250 pages
Company: Routledge (2001-12-28)
ISBN: 1583910727
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The field of executive coaching is growing at an astonishing rate. Corporations are increasingly turning to coaching as an intervention, as it offers leaders and managers both on-the-job learning and built-in follow-up. But how can you make the best use of coaching within your organization?Executive Coaching for Results helps this critical leadership development method come of age. This is not a "how-to-coach book"–there are already plenty of those–but rather a comprehensive guide on how to strategically use coaching to maximize development of talent and link the impact of coaching to bottom-line results. Underhill, McAnally, and Koriath draw on their rigorous original research (through Executive Development Associates) with Fortune 1000 and Global 500 companies such as Disney, IBM, UBS, Unilever and many others, and combine that with their years of industry experience to advance the state of the art.

Author: Brian O Underhill, Kimcee McAnally, John J Koriath
Hardcover: 189 pages Illustrated
Company: Berrett-Koehler Publishers (2007-12-01)
ISBN: 1576754480
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Coaching in business has come a long way! Once used primarily to deal with problem employees, this powerful tool for building strategic effectiveness and supporting executives through career transitions has become a badge of status for today's high-potential leaders. Although much has been written for practicing coaches, Joan Kofodimos delivers a first-of-its-kind user's guide for coaching consumers. Dozens of checklists, samples, and life-inspired case examples take readers through each and every step of a successful coaching process to benefit participants, coaching sponsors, and the organization's ROI.

Author: Joan Kofodimos
Hardcover: 120 pages
Company: Davies-Black Publishing (2007-05-25)
ISBN: 0891062211
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As today's business leaders are rapidly discoveriong a true and trusted partner in the professionals pioneering the new frontier of executive coaching, Executive Coaching will lead the way as the first resource to bring together the theory and methods of this growing professional practice.

Hardcover: 368 pages
Company: Davies-Black Publishing (2002-04-25)
ISBN: 0891061614
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Find satisfaction and financial success with a new career in coaching

Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching offers a go-to reference designed to help every mental health professional build, manage, and sustain a thriving coaching practice. Packed with hundreds of proven strategies and techniques, this nuts-and-bolts guide covers all aspects of the coaching business with step-by-step instructions and real-world illustrations that prepare you for every phase of starting your own coaching business.

This single, reliable book offers straightforward advice and tools for running a successful practice, including:
* Seven tools for making a great first impression
* Fifteen strategies for landing ten paying clients
* Seven secrets of highly successful coaches
* Ten marketing mistakes to avoid

Complete with sample business and marketing plans and worksheets for setting rates and managing revenue, Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching identifies the fifteen biggest moneymaking markets to target and offers valuable recommendations for financing that get the most impact and mileage from every budget. Quick "Action Steps" for applying ideas and techniques make this book useful right away.

Get started in coaching today!

Author: Stephen G. Fairley, Chris E. Stout
Paperback: 356 pages
Company: Wiley (2003-11-24)
ISBN: 0471426245
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The unrelenting pace and pressure of business in most modern organizations brings constant pressure to bear on employees, challenging the physical and emotional resources of everyone. Consultants have become familiar with a "survival mentality" among the people they are called upon who are struggling to improve production, solve intractable conflict, and chart realistic growth. This text was written to help organizational consultants understand the chaotic pressures and psychodynamic problems that can influence executive behaviour and performance. In readable illustrated chapters, Kilburg shows how methods and techniques developed largely in clinical settings can be applied in efforts to coach exceutives and management teams. This should be of interest to consultants who wish to help executives develop human wisdom and to gain insight into the chaotic "shadow" side of individuals and organizational life.

Author: Richard R. Kilburg
Hardcover: 253 pages
Company: American Psychological Association (APA) (2000-04)
ISBN: 1557986487
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Links current theories of leadership to executive coaching and also shows how the return on coaching investment can be measured.

Author: Sabine Dembkowski
Paperback: 176 pages
Company: Thorogood Publishing (2006-09-25)
ISBN: 1854183338
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