Your Coach (in a Book): Mastering the Trickiest Leadership, Business, and Career Challenges You Will Ever Face [Hardcover]

Robert Hargrove (Author), Michel Renaud (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 24, 2004

Coaching has proven to be one of the most power and effective ways for leaders to develop and improve their performance. Yet working one-on-one with a coach is not always possible. If you want the experience of masterful coaching, Your Coach (In a Book) provides a time-efficient and affordable solution. Based on the authors’ highly successful Masterful Coaching approach, Your Coach (In a Book) is designed to help you master your trickiest leadership, business, and career challenges. Throughout, master-level coaches Robert Hargrove and Michel Renaud engage the reader in a “coaching conversation” about your most important goals, pivotal decisions, bothersome issues, and dilemmas. Your Coach (In A Book) simulates the experience of working with a personal coach. drawing on thousands of hours of coaching conversations. It gives you the insights you need to set aspirational goals, master the corporate chessboard, and create new openings for action where you are stuck or ineffective.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Once they get past the authors’ rah-rah style and their extravagant claim that their coaching method can change the world, corporate leaders will find a wealth of practical advice on how to advance themselves in this buck-up for the up-and-comer. Hargrove (Masterful Coaching), the chair of Masterful Coaching Inc., and Renaud, a senior partner at the company, condense a year’s worth of private coaching into this manual, which is addressed to exceptionally motivated business people with leadership aspirations. Many of the leadership tactics put forth here are familiar, such as the use of "360 degree feedback" to divide employees into A, B and C categories (nourish A’s, coach B’s and dump C’s). The authors draw from a wealth of clients for case studies: Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Young, Phillips Electronics Executive VP Patrick Lamonde and EMG Corp.’s John Reingold all make appearances. Strategies presented in a clear and fairly well organized manner include creating an inspiring blueprint for the future, learning to become a master corporate politician, and building coalitions when you are not yet in charge.
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Review

“Imagine reading stories about extraordinary coaching conversations with leaders who have faced issues and problems just like yours—conversations that led to simple, powerful, but nonobvious solutions. Imagine the eye- opening insights and new openings for possibility and action that could be triggered in you as you read with your own commitments at stake. . .your own red-hot issues! We wrote this book with you in mind.”
--From the Introduction

"Your Coach (In a Book) provides bang for the buck in terms of in-depth insights into the leadership, business, and career dilemmas that managers in all organizations face."
--Tom Kaiser, president, Arch Insurance

"You can read Your Coach (In a Book) cover to cover so as to simulate a year-long coaching program, or flip through it with your issues in   mind and find the golden nugget and run with it. In either case it really delivers.”
--Richard Severance, senior vice president, ConocoPhillips

“Robert Hargrove and Michel Renaud's Your Coach (In a Book) will make you feel like you have hired a masterful coach--at an affordable price--who will give you tremendous power and velocity in reaching your goals.”
--Debby Pindar, senior project manager, Khimetrics Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (June 24, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0787971286
• ISBN-13: 978-0787971281
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,895,680 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Robert Hargrove is a world-renowned, revolutionary thought leader in the field of talent development and coaching. His motto is "Better Leaders, Better World" and he believes that coaching leaders to achieve an Impossible Future is the fastest, most powerful way to achieve both.

Hargrove is the founder of Masterful Coaching Inc. and served as a Director of the Harvard Leadership Research Project. He has been awarded for Distinguished Public Service by the United States Government for his coaching work with political leaders.

Some recent clients have included the United States Assistant Secretary of Defense in charge of Acquisitions, the President of the New York Stock Exchange, and European CEO of the year. Hargrove's focus is on helping leaders realize an Impossible Future, while at the same time, transforming their nation or organization.

Visit Robert at: www.roberthargrove.com; www.masterfulcoaching.com; www.myfirst100day.net; and www.therevenueengine.com

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