Secrets of a Leadership Coach 5 Practice and Assessments Manual and CD: The Coaching and Leadership Techniques of Marshall Goldsmith, Illustrated with ... For Every Manager and Employee (Pt. 5) [Plastic Comb]

Daniel Farb (Author), Bruce Gordon (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 2003

Secrets of a Leadership Coach is a premium leadership training series that brings the wisdom of one of America's top CEO coaches to every employee and manager. This is the fifth course in the series.

Editorial Reviews

Review

"A learning environment similar to being in a live, participative workshop. Useful and relevant." Four star rating. -- Foreword Reviews, October, 2004

...an outstanding presentation of principles of leadership.... It is the best CD I have seen on the subject. -- Seymour Feshbach, Former Chairman, Dept. of Psychology, UCLA

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4 Star Rating for the series from Foreword Reviews:

Successful people do not need to learn what to do to be an effective leader as much as they need to learn what and when to stop! With a book, a Windows-based computer, an interactive CD, and a unique user code to unlock the program, in Secrets of a Leadership Coach Manual authors Farb, Goldsmith, Gordon, and Coffey provide five courses to present leadership coaching ideas that develop leaders, help leaders develop others, and help leaders develop teams.

The CD chapter introductions include additional information not in the book. In some lessons, the CD chapters are in a different order than in the book. Despite this unrelatedness, video clips from live workshops, animation, review questions after each main course segment, reviews of key points, and all CD parts repeat and enhance the book for a purposeful learning experience. The CD also adapts to help disabled people more easily access information. When CD text is identical to the audio soundtrack in the video, the learners can choose their learning preference: listen to the soundtrack if auditory or read the soundtrack text if visual. Sometimes, the CD requires the visual learner to listen to a video soundtrack. The learner is regularly fully engaged in a participative learning experience with the CD.

Secrets of a Leadership Coach 3, Developing Others, details eight steps on how to coach others. The steps use a distinctive feedback process which Marshall calls feedforward. "Feedforward occurs when a person gives someone else suggestions for the future and helps as much as he or she can." Feedforward in Secrets of a Leadership Coach 3 reinforces the same point made in Secrets of a Leadership Coach 2, Developing Ourselves as Leaders. The third of the eight steps is Collect Feedback, which directs the leader to encourage people to state their feedback in the feedforward mode. While the CD program states, "You don’t have to have forms; you don’t have to have processes," in clarifying this step, the book omits this possible relevant point. Research supports that feedforward produces more positive action in both the sender and receiver than feedback.

In the five courses: Executive Coaching Techniques, Developing Ourselves as Leaders, Developing Others, Developing a Team, and Practice Files, either a beginner or experienced leader is in a learning environment similar to being in a live, participative workshop with the added benefit of being able to repeat the information as much as desired. The CD course provides ample extra discussion and together the set makes for a useful and relevant tool.

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Product Details

• Plastic Comb: 161 pages
• Publisher: UniversityOfHealthCare (October 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1594910278
• ISBN-13: 978-1594910272
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,554,711 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is a world authority in helping successful leaders get even better - by achieving positive, lasting change in behavior: for themselves, their people and their teams.

Every two years there is a global survey to determine the world's top 50 business thinkers. In 2009 Marshall's friend the late CK Prahalad was ranked #1 and Marshall was ranked #14. To participate in the 2011 Thinkers 50, visit http://www.thinkers50.com/vote.

MOJO was released in February 2010. It is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal top ten best-seller - and the Shanghai Daily #1 business book in China. It is already scheduled to be translated into 14 languages.

In November 2009 Dr. Goldsmith was recognized as one of the fifteen most influential business thinkers in the world in the bi-annual study sponsored by The (London) Times and Forbes. The American Management Association named Marshall as one of 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years. He is one of only two educators who have won the Institute of Management Studies Lifetime Achievement Award. Major business press acknowledgments include: BusinessWeek - most influential practitioners in the history leadership development, Wall Street Journal - top ten executive educators, Forbes - five most-respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence - top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India) - top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK) - most credible executive advisors in the new era of business and Fast Company - America's preeminent executive coach.

Dr. Goldsmith's Ph.D. is from UCLA. He teaches executive education at Dartmouth's Tuck School and frequently speaks at leading business schools. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Human Resources (America's top HR honor) and his work has been recognized by almost every professional organization in his field. In 2006 Alliant International University honored Marshall by naming their schools of business and organizational studies - the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management.

Marshall is one of a select few advisors who have been asked to work with over 120 major CEOs and their management teams. He served on the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation for ten years. He has been a volunteer teacher for US Army Generals, Navy Admirals, Girl Scout executives, International and American Red Cross leaders - where he was a National Volunteer of the Year.

Marshall is the million-selling author of many books including: What Got You Here Won't Get You There - a New York Times best-seller, Wall Street Journal #1 business book, winner of the Harold Longman Award for Business Book of the Year and top ten best-seller in seven major countries; Succession: Are You Ready? - a WSJ best-seller; The Leader of the Future -a BusinessWeek best-seller, The Organization of the Future 2 - Choice Award (top academic business books) 2009; and Coaching for Leadership. Over three hundred of his articles, interviews, columns and videos are available for viewing and sharing online (for no charge) at www.MarshallGoldsmithLibrary.com. Visitors to this site have come from 195 countries and have viewed, read, listened to, downloaded or shared resources over 4.4 million times. He has regular blogs at www.HBR.org, www.BusinessWeek.com and www.HuffingtonPost.com.

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Secrets of a Leadership Coach 5, Practice and Assessments Manual and CD, February 18, 2007

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Robert J. Weiss (Brookfield, WI) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Secrets of a Leadership Coach 5 Practice and Assessments Manual and CD: The Coaching and Leadership Techniques of Marshall Goldsmith, Illustrated with ... For Every Manager and Employee (Pt. 5) (Plastic Comb)

I have a great respect for Marshall Goldsmith and have bought many of his books. (See other recommendation towards end of review) That is why I thought a CD product under his name, with a promising title and a considerably higher price tag (about $60.00)than a book would be well worth the cost.

To the contrary, this product was an immense disappointment. There were about 110 "pages" of written content on the CD, (no audio), many only a sentence or short paragraph long. The content was very basic. You're forced to take a pre-test (usually a good idea) and a post-test to proceed. The pre-test was so basic, or tied so closely to a particular point in the CD, that it held little or no value, and the post-test just wasted more time (granted, only a minute or so) which had to be spent to progress to the next section of the CD.

The CD felt as if it had been written by college students with little business-world experience, but rather regurgitating what they'd been taught. So I wonder who really developed it.

BE CAREFUL: You have to jump thorugh a lot of hoops to get a key to unlock and access the CD (must send email which is not monitored 24 hours, and no autorespoder to send the key, must wait for response), and then some confusing jargon that seemed to me to be burried in the instructions that supposedly says you can view part of the CD, but once you use the key, you're not able to get a refund. I never did pick up on this warning. (Maybe my fault?)

But why be so complicated about obtaining access to a CD product, and then making a return so difficult when the product is not even close to promised expectations (implied in the title, by author's name, and by use of supposedly more interactive or valuable "CD" media). The entire customer service process seems to go against Marshall Goldsmith's own philosophy about not negating feedback, and in his case, only being paid if services are worthy.

The publishing company (University of Health Care - CD Licensing) was
uncooperative about my attempt to return the product and obtain a refund (I've never before requested a refund of any book or product I've bought.) They did offer to "make an exception" and let me buy another product at 50% off, which would have meant I had to buy two products at an average 25% discount, at least one of which would have wasted $60.00. When I asked through email to speak with someone in person to discuss my complaint, my request was ignored. Finally, the publisher told me to request a refund through Amazon.com, which admittedly, I realize that I should have done from the beginning (my mistake). An Amazon rep. approved a refund, given the circumstances. Thank you Amazon!

At the same time that I bought this product, I also bought Marshall Goldsmith's, "What Got You Here Won't get You There," which is an absolutely excellent book, succinctly written with valuable insights.
I think it's the best book that he's authored.