Executive Coaching
Overview
What you can provide as a coach – and what a good coach can provide for you and your organisation
Will I benefit from coaching? How will I measure the benefits – and will they be lasting ones? How do I choose the right coach and how can I get the maximum value out of the process?
This book – by an insider with plenty of experience of hiring coaches and acting as a coach – provides a pragmatic insight into executive coaching for those who:
- are contemplating a career move and becoming an executive coach
- are considering using the executive coaching process for their organization
- are considering using – or asking their organization for – an executive coach for themselves.
The author emphasizes the importance of commitment from coach, individual and sponsor [the organization] if coaching is to be of real benefit.
Book Details
- Format:
- eBook
- ISBN:
- 9781854188489
- Pages:
- 192
- Publication Date:
- 2014
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Content
Introduction
ONE What is executive coaching?
- So, what are the pieces of the coaching jigsaw?
- The role of the Human Resources function
- What will success look like?
- Creating a coaching environment
TWO The organizational context
- Identifying the need
- Feedback
THREE Where executive coaching makes the difference
- Assimilation coaching
- Performance coaching
- Career coaching
- Coaching during projects
- Inbound coaching
- Coaching during mergers and acquisitions
- Coaching to non-executive directcors
- Coaching during outplacement
- Coaching teams
- Enhancing manager’s skills
- …And the ones that get away
FOUR How does it work?
- Preparation
- How will we work together?
- What will success look like?
- Delivery
- Coaching teams
- Closure and sign off
- Tools and techniques
FIVE The coach as consultant
- Initial contact
- Issues for the internal coach
SIX What to look for in a coach
- Coaches to avoid
- What works?
- Is who you see, who you get?
SEVEN What to look for as a potential coach
- What are the reasons for your interest in executive coaching?
- How much do you know about executive coaching?
- Training to be an executive coach
- Market research
- Working as an executive coach
EIGHT Making this book work for you
- Does your organization need executive coaching?
- Finally
- Further information
APPENDIX ONE British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
APPENDIX TWO The British Psychological Society Code of Good Practice for Psychological Testing
APPENDIX THREE The European Mentoring and Coaching Council