Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide Others
While most executive coaches have a professional background in one of four areas of expertise?—human resources and organizational development, career counseling, business at the executive level, or psychotherapy—they have little formal training to prepare them for the ups and downs of leadership coaching. Coaching Leaders offers new and seasoned coaches a hands-on training manual that incorporates the valuable lessons, techniques, processes, and skills that will help them achieve the next level of coaching professionalism.Coaching Leaders is written for coaches who are in the challenging position of working with leaders and helping them excel as the top executives and managers in their organizations. The book is filled with illustrative examples from Daniel White's practice as a successful executive coach. His clients' stories reveal the human drama of becoming a leader and explore the courageous and fascinating accomplishments these individuals have achieved in order to grow professionally. These stories also clearly show how a skilled coach adjusts to meet an individual client's personality and targeted challenge. Coaching Leaders includes a wide variety of effective coaching concepts and the information needed to guide leaders and help them maintain the motivation to change; battle anxiety, fear, and resistance; and achieve emotional intelligence.Throughout Coaching Leaders White reveals the keys to becoming a successful coach and shows how to develop the skill, empathy, and insight that will put you on the road to coaching excellence.