Coaching for Leadership: How the World's Greatest Coaches Help Leaders Learn

by Robert Witherspoon, Marshall Goldsmith (Editor), Laurence Lyons (Editor)

Put coaching into practice in your organization! Executive coaching is dramatically increasing in popularity. Leaders around the world are both using coached and becoming coaches. But, the understanding of what executive coaching is and how it can increases leaders' effectiveness has not grown as fast as the application of this process. Coaching for Leadership brings together the world's best executive coaches to give the reader an understanding of: " Coaching for Leadership provides you with the opportunity to access the best of the best. Their collective insights and advice represents a benchmark framework for those who coach or are responsible for developing the skills of coaches."
--Charles J. Corace, director, management education & development, Johnson & Johnson

Genres: Leadership, Business, Nonfiction

392 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[jjoyous1 · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book for anyone interested in business coaching. It details the essential elements of the coaching relationship and focuses on leadership effectiveness and other important topics, such as the importance of developing a coaching environment.

[Katlu · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book is a collection of articles, some of which I found insightful, some of which were not. As they are written from very different notions about both the role of the executive coach and the process of coaching, the collection might be a bit confusing if you know nothing else about coaching. Some of it is also a bit outdated (e-coaching).

[Jeff Lampson]

An exceptional resource and compilation of topics within categories and from a wide range of leadership coaches including Leider, Kouzes and Posner, Ulrich, etc. It's not complete without a chapter from Hudson/McLean though!

I am going to try the process Goldsmith outlines for team building without time wasting it seems incredibly practical and he swears it consistently works. I really like how it will add on-going capability building for the team.