Leadership Coaching: When It′s Right and When You′re Ready

ISBN-13: 9781604910438 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 32 str.

Center for Creative Leadership (CCL);Douglas Riddle

Opis

Leadership in the top management ranks is often an isolated business. Many managers recognize that to focus their personal development plans they need the uninterrupted time and attention of a skilled, objective facilitator. This guidebook is for managers who are considering leadership coaching as a tool in their personal leadership development. It describes what leadership coaching is and cna help you decide whether it is appropriate for your situation. You'll also learn how to locate and select a qualified coach with the professional and personal credentials and characteristics that match your development needs so that you can achieve the goals you've set.

As managers move higher in an organization, it can be more difficult for them to get accurate and unbiased input about their performance and leadership skills. Many managers recognize that to focus their personal development plans they need the uninterrupted time and attention of a skilled, objective professional - a coach. This publication extends and improves on CCLs knowledge first articulated in the Ideas Into Action Guidebook Choosing an Executive Coach, and it draws from CCLs extensive coaching practice as detailed in The CCL Handbook of Coaching: A Guide for the Leader Coach. Leadership Coaching places coaching in its proper place as a means of leadership development to be integrated with other methods. It helps readers figure out how to evaluate their readiness for coaching and how to engage a coach to achieve the most benefit. It also provides practical guidance for executives who are being urged to take coaching or who have coaching provided for them as part of a leadership development initiative.

Spis treści

7 What Is Leadership Coaching?

7 Is It Right for You Now?

15 What to Expect

23 Selecting a Coach

27 Are You Ready?

30 Suggested Readings

30 Background

31 Key Point Summary

O autorze

This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, since its inception in 1970, through its research and educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared–in a way that is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply a collection of individual experts, although the individual credentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and working together to understand and generate practical responses to today′s leadership and organizational challenges.
The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL′s mission to advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide.

Douglas Riddle is the Global Director of Coaching Services at the Center for Creative Leadership. He is responsible for the advancement of coaching research and practice, and manages over 400 professional leadership coaches around the world. Under his leadership, CCL coaching has expanded into work across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa. CCL coaches are located in twenty–six countries and speak as many languages. Doug frequently speaks and writes on leadership, coaching, and organizational change. He holds doctorates in psychology and theology, and is a licensed psychologist in California.