Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders

Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders | Brian O Underhill, Kimcee McAnally, ... | Executive Coaching for Results

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	Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders Brian O Underhill, Kimcee McAnally, ... Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007 - 189 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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.

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Excellent book

This book is a helpful and practical guide with stories, research and ideas. The authors describe how organizations successfully implement coaching. A must read for any leadership development professionals!

Executive Coaching for Results

Executive Coaching for Results provides an invaluable service to the field of talent and management development:direct information from dozens of top flight corporate leaders and practitioners of executive coaching.
Quite simply there is nothing else like this book in the marketplace and anyone who wants to gain a comprehensive knowledge of the state of the art of this ever dynamic field and area of practice needs to purchase a copy today.

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Executive coaching for results

Executive coaching for results provides an interesting insight into the world of executive coaching across the US. The authors and their contributors have condensed into this volume much of the coaching research on what makes for effective coaching, coach matching and coaching impact. These research elements are mixed with excellent short real life case studies which illustrate the points made from the rsearch.

Overall this is an excellent read.

A fine contribution to the coaching field!

As an executive coach who's passionate about helping leaders to learn, to grow and to change, I recently had the pleasure of reading Executive Coaching for Results, and like it a lot.

Using a combination of research methods, Brian Underhill and his colleagues bring fresh data on current coaching practice and their own insights from coaching in organizations to shed light on the state of the art of executive coaching. Consider, for example, their analysis of key selection criteria for selecting executive coaches, as seen by both the sponsoring organizations and the leaders actually receiving coaching.

* Organizations saw "business experience" and "match with our culture" as critical factors in choosing a coach. Of lesser import was "experience in our industry," "advanced degree" and "cost."

* Leaders overwhelmingly selected "business experience" and "ability to establish rapport" (read personal chemistry) as their top criteria in coach selection. "Advanced degree" and "certification" were minimally important, and "cost" came in last place.

The authors add: "In interviews, leaders also identified "soft" traits in coaches [that were key selection factors], such as having a sincere desire and commitment to help, having adaptability and the right chemistry, being a good listener, becoming a trusted advisor, and having the ability to challenge back."

Significantly, neither organizations or leaders being coached seem concerned about coaching models and approaches.

In sum, Executive Coaching for Results is a fine contribution to the coaching field, and the first to clearly illuminate many current organizational practices.

P.S. I started coaching execs in organizations before it was cool. Some years back I wrote another "first" on executive coaching with Randy White, published by the Center for Creative Leadership. To learn more, Google on Four Essential Ways That Coaching Can Help Executives (1997) at amazon.com, which includes a brief book description and customer review.

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All of your coaching questions answered in one book!

This book has all of your coaching questions answered in one book. It disects the industry flawlessly and is a great read for anyone involved with this line of work. Whether you are interested in pursuing a coaching career, currently a coach, work in an HR related field, or looking to hire a coach- this is the book for you. I am currently in a PhD program for Organizational Psychology, so I am continuously referencing this research.

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