Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide Others (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) [Hardcover]

Daniel White (Author), Marshall Goldsmith (Foreword)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0787977144 | ISBN-13: 978-0787977146 | Publication Date: December 2, 2005 | Edition: 1

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.

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From the Inside Flap

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.

From the Back Cover

The Guidebook for Those Who Guide Others!

Dan White has put his wisdom and experience into a book that is rich with both case studies and a discussion of how superb coaching works. I recommend this book for everyone in the field of coaching as a must-have resource.
—David Rottman, Senior Vice President – Human Resources, JPMorgan Chase

Like executive coaches, books on executive coaching come and go. Not this one. With this exemplary work, Dan White has accomplished the rarity of combining his personal and professional experience, using highly readable cases, with his understanding of relevant concepts and theories.
—W. Warner Burke, PhD, Edward Lee Thorndike Professor of Psychology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University

This is truly a magnificent read for any practicing or aspiring coach. Dan shares foundational theory, case studies, and learned techniques all in one complete resource.?
—Allison Weir, Leadership Facilitator, JetBlue Airways

Coaching Leaders is a must read for everyone who plans to do executive coaching. Dan combines his experience as a coach, teacher, manager and psychologist in a powerful, thoughtful and very readable book.
—Robert J. Lee, Managing Director, I Coach New York

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 336 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (December 2, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787977144
• ISBN-13: 978-0787977146
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,056,175 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A "Must Read" from a Leading Coach, January 12, 2006

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Dr. Steven Axelrod "Executive coach, psycholo... (New York, New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide Others (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) (Hardcover)

Dan White has written a terrific book that gets inside the "black box" of executive coaching to describe how behavior change and growth can occur at work. This book is informed by a mastery of the literature on leadership and by the author's own savvy about organizational life. His book is worth buying just for the summary chapter on "What is Leadership." From that excellent starting point the author goes on to describe the practice of coaching in detailed, but highly accessible terms. While other books have extolled the virtues of coaching and the results it can bring, none, in my experience, give as good a feel to the reader for how a coach actually goes about facilitating behavior change and growth. Through many case examples, Dan White shows how a coach's skills and techniques impact the dynamics of behavior. He offers a valuable window into how a skilled coach uses questioning, listening, pattern recognition, and reframing to challenge the client to grow as a manager and leader. His chapter on coaching themes gives a very valuable overview of typical coaching assignments and helps the reader understand the broad applicability of executive coaching. I highly recommend this book for both beginning and experienced coaches and for organizational sponsors of coaching who want to gain an in-depth understanding of how the process really works.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific book for both beginners and experts., May 9, 2006

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Bruce Hammer - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide Others (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) (Hardcover)

In an engaging, accessible style, Dan White communicates a sophisticated, true-to-life understanding of the coaching process that comes from his immersion in the field. In my favorite chapter, "The Nature of Coaching," Dan restores thinking to a primary position as the necessary ingredient in behavior change. He connects the dots so that we recognize the centrality of thinking - discovery, capture, recognition, refinement, repetition - and dialogue - listening, questioning, investigating - as the bedrock of both leading and coaching. We gain an appreciation for something as simple as leaders making a conscious decision to set aside time for thinking, and as complex as seeing learning to think as the ultimate take-away from a coaching experience.

Because Dan is very clear and passionate about what he thinks, and because he provides us with cogent examples from his coaching experiences, he offers us a terrific education in the many facets of coaching leaders in today's corporate environment. Because Dan is obviously well read, he brings the perspectives of a wide array of disciplines to the discussion. And yet, true to his credo, he presents his thinking - always fresh and alive, in ways that stimulate and provoke the reader to think freely and creatively about the issues at hand, inviting us to participate in the dialogue. Thank you, Dan.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Guide Book, February 14, 2007

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L. Segarra (New York, NY) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide Others (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) (Hardcover)

I found this book very helpful for understanding the coaching process. The book is easy to follow and good for anyone considering getting into the field or for someone who wants to understand how the process works and effects clients.