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Executive Coaching presents practical and sophisticated leading-edge views in 16 chapters on key aspects of the craft: principles and guidelines for practitioners, supporting complexity of mind and executives, dealing with failure in coaching and a reflective practice approach for coaches. Experienced coaches offer strategies for working with different client populations, while senior human resource managers describe how to get executive coaching started in organizations, link coaching with business strategy, integrate the use of internal and external coaches and avoid common mistakes in using executive coaching.
Preface
Contributors
Part 1: Executive Coaching Perspectives
1 A Coach’s Lessons Learned: Principles and Guidelines for Practitioners
2 Leadership and Complexity of Mind: The Role of Executive Coaching
3 The Coach as Reflective Practitioner: Notes from a Journey without End
Part 2: Executive Coaching Practices
4 Understanding and Supporting Development of Executives at Midlife
5 Breaking the Boundaries: Leveraging the Personal in Executive Coaching
6 Coaching Senior Executives for Effective Business Leadership: The Use of Adult Developmental Theory as A Basis for Transformative Change
Part 3: Managing Executive Coaching in Organizations
7 Initiating Executive Coaching in Your Organization
8 Executive Coaching and Business Strategy
9 Using Executive Coaching in Organizations: What Can Go Wrong (and How to Prevent It)
10 Coaching from the Inside: When, Why, and How?
Part 4: Executive Coaching Issues
11 On Seeing the Forest while among the Trees: Integrating Business Strategy Models and Concepts into Executive Coaching Practice
12 Love and Fear in Executive Coaching
13 Failure and Negative Outcomes: The Taboo Topic in Executive Coaching
Part 5: Special Coaching Situations
14 The Isolated Executive: How Executive Coaching Can Help
15 Coaching Entrepreneurs
16 Coaching across Countries and Cultures
Index
Catherine Fitzgerald, PhD is an organizational psychologist and principal of Fitzgerald Consulting who has worked with clients such as Fannie Mae, the International Monetary Fund, and the National Cooperative Bank.
Jennifer Garvey Berger, EdD is assistant professor at George Mason University. She teaches and consults in the areas of complexity of mind, individual differences, and transformational development.
”An impressive guide to coaching—the reasons and the techniques for doing it. If you are interested in coaching and executive development, this books belongs on your bookshelf.”—William Bridges, author of Transitions, Managing Transitions, and The Way of Transition
”Fascinating, insightful, and thought provoking, yet practical and full of ‘how-tos.’ Essential reading for anyone wishing to improve his or her coaching skills or engage in reflective conversations.”—Lynda Gratton, Professor of Organizational Behavior at London Business School, author of Living Strategy: Putting People at the Heart of Corporate Purpose
“Provides a road map for how to intelligently bring executive coaches into your organization and optimize the experience for both the organization and the individual executive. A handbook any senior human resource professional will find invaluable.”—Carole Dickert-Scherr, Vice President, Human Resources, PBS
”A generous and rewarding buffet of a book! Anyone interested in executive coaching will happily return again and again to this important contribution to a fast-moving field.”—Robert Kegan, William and Miriam Meehan Professor of Adult Learning and Professional Development, Harvard University, author of How the Way We Talk Can Change the Way We Work
