Coaching Yourself to Leadership [Paperback]

Ginny O'Brien (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 1, 2005

Let a highly successful business coach transform your work life Coaching Yourself to Leadership: 5 Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader Ginny O’Brien What would happen if a respected business coach gave you a new model for leadership that could help you achieve the happiness, productivity and fulfillment at work you so desire? It would change your life. That’s exactly what author Ginny O’Brien has done. She’s a certified business coach who draws on an approach she’s used successfully for years in her practice to develop effective leaders. It integrates competencies from three domains of leadership—self, work and others—and emphasizes both masculine and feminine elements of strength. O’Brien’s themes—be authentic, visionary, emotionally intelligent, an assertive communicator and connected to others through relationships and alliances—are covered in-depth in separate chapters. Exercises, tools and specific guidance are also provided to help you turn the information presented into everyday practices. The purpose of the book is not to help you become the next Jack Welch—being a great leader doesn’t mean you have to get to the top. Rather, it is to provide you with practices and techniques that will transform you into a more positive, authentic leader who can make work better for yourself and those you currently lead. Sample topics: • Identifying values: Getting to the core of you • The dilemma of defensive behaviors • Leadership and parenting: The same skill set • Dealing with people you don’t respect • Assertive vs aggressive • Passive-aggressive communicators: The Alienators • The art of asking powerful questions • Managing your fear • The problem with delegating perfection

Editorial Reviews

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A valuable tool for today's leaders who must take responsibility for their own professional development. -- Gail McMeekan, Author of The 12 Secrets of Highly Creative Women

If you aspire to leadership, you owe it to yourself to read this important book. -- Lynn A. Robinson, Author of Divine Intution

This book goes straight into my library. Our coaching clients are going to love it. -- Sydney Rice, Author of Choice Points

This book looks at leadership from a "feminine" perspective... is unique ... definitely worth a read. -- TCM Reviews, Tami Brady, November 14, 2005

This book looks at leadership from a "feminine" perspective...is unique...definitely worth a read. -- TCM Reviews

From the Author

I am deeply indebted to all the people I have met on my journey who have supported me and helped me to develop and grow. But most of all I am indebted to my clients, from whom I learn all the time. The stories and case studies in this book are based on their experiences, but the names and details have been changed to protect their identities. I have also used artistic license at times and altered some of the experiences and stories in order to make my points more clearly. I am always humbled by my work and by the ways in which I see people make changes as they strive to develop themselves. Through reading their stories and mine, I hope you will be able to take away at least one powerful nugget of wisdom that will assist you in your own growth as a leader.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 200 pages
• Publisher: HRD Press, Inc. (September 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0874258693
• ISBN-13: 978-0874258691
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #277,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, January 20, 2006

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Coaching Yourself to Leadership is a fantastic guide and self-study that has helped me recognize my true potential as a leader. This well-organized guide and workbook is an easy read with real, practical suggestions that I can apply to my life today. Excellent!

3.0 out of 5 stars Coaching yourself to leadership, November 7, 2011

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I found the five key strategies to becoming a leader very useful. This book is very easy to read and contains many good exercises.

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiring and practical! ...not just for leaders!, August 29, 2006

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Laurie R. Geary "Professional Certified Coach" (Cambridge, MA) - See all my reviews
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This book is not just for leaders: anyone will benefit from learning how to coach him/herself to success using the 5 key strategies.
I especially liked the self-assessment exercises: identifying skills, clarifying core values and vision, and determining one's level of emotional intelligence (EQ).
Ginny's book is easy to read: succinct and practical, with helpful models to support her strategies. It's also inspiring to read the client (and personal) success stories.
As a life coach, I highly recommend this book to many of my clients since I think the book gets at the basic strategies someone needs to create a successful, happy life. The many powerful questions, a key coaching skill, are are also very helpful.