Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches, Third Edition
- 6h 10m
- Laurence S. Lyons, Marshall Goldsmith, Sarah McArthur (eds)
- John Wiley & Sons (US)
- 2012
The third edition of the classic book Coaching for Leadership is written for today's coaches who are challenged with the task of combining concepts from various disciplines in order to help their clients, especially high-potential leaders, learn and succeed. In this sense, coaches have to become discriminating eclectics, developing a keen sense of judgment to select which ideas are best woven into their coaching method and which concepts are best to ignore. Coaching for Leadership is intended to be a cherished companion in that learning journey presented by the world's greatest coaches, including: Marshall Goldsmith, Paul Hersey, Beverly Kaye, Dave Ulrich, and many more.
This comprehensive resource offers a wealth of material for established and novice coaches including proven coaching techniques, key principles, and important learning points. The book offers a concise overview of the foundations of coaching and reveals
- What it takes to coach for engagement and retention
- Why mentoring is circular
- How to build a team without wasting time
- What it means to be a purposeful leader
- How to write like a leader
- The right stuff of leadership
- What is needed to lead across national boundaries
- How to coach high potential women
- Why coaching is empowerment
- How to influence decision makers
- Why you should double your value
- The ten suggestions for successful peer coaching
- The coaching tools for the leadership journey
- How to coach executives for succession
Coaching for Leadership is a proven resource that offers best practices, sample scenarios, case studies, and practical tools.
About the Editors
Marshall Goldsmith, Ph.D., is one of a select few executive advisors who have been asked to work with over 120 major CEOs and their management teams. A million-selling author, his books include the New York Times bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won't Get You There, a Wall Street Journal #1 business book and Harold Longman Award winner for Business Book of the Year.
Laurence S. Lyons, Ph.D. specializes in global change initiatives and director coaching in large organizations. A former technical director at Digital, Lyons brings over 20 years hands-on industrial and commercial experience to his coaching practice. He is the author of this book's companion edition, The Coaching for Leadership Case Study Workbook, which features Dr. Fink's Leadership Casebook and includes A Guide to Organizational Life which presents a new management paradigm that is applicable to the 21st Century.
Sarah McArthur is founder of *sdedit. With nearly two decades of experience in the publishing field, she is an expert in the field of management, leadership, and executive coaching writing. She is co-editor of the Choice Top 10 Leadership Title, The AMA Handbook of Leadership.
In this Book
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Coaching For Leadership—Writings on Leadership from the World’s Greatest Coaches, Third Edition
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Foreword
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Preface to the Third Edition
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Preface to the Second Edition
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Preface to the First Edition
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Coaching For Behavioral Change
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Coaching At the Heart of Strategy
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Situational Leadership and Executive Coaching
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Coaching and Consultation Revisited—Are They the Same?
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Demystifying the Coaching Mystique
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The Accomplished Leader
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Writing For Leadership—Penning Your Leadership Voice
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Seeking Value in a Shattered World of Work
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The Right Stuff of Leadership
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The Purposeful Leader—A Purpose Checkup
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When Leaders Are Coaches*
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Awareness Coaching For Men and Women
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Coaching To Empower
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Leading Across National Boundaries
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Coaching For Governance
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Leadership Insight—Going Beyond the Dehydrated Language of Management
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Coaching For Engagement and Retention
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Coaching Future Lawyer-Leaders—A Case Study
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Team Building without Time Wasting
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Leaders Building Leaders—High-Potential Development and Executive Coaching at Microsoft*
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The Care and Feeding Of Hi-Po Leaders
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Mentoring Is Circular
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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers—Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference
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From the Fastforward Playbook—Successfully Transition into Bigger Roles
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Strength in Numbers—The Advantage of Being a Top Team
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Double Your Value
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Creating Winners in the Career Game—What Every Player and Coach Needs to Know
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Coaching Tools for the Leadership Journey
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Try Feedforward Instead Of Feedback
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Three Types of Hi-Po and the Realise2 4m Model—Coaching at the Intersection of Strengths, Strategy, and Situation
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Coaching High-Potential Women—Using the Six Points of Influence Model for Transformational Change
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Notes
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