Coaching in business has come a long way! Once used primarily to deal with problem employees, this powerful tool for building strategic effectiveness and supporting executives through career transitions has become a badge of status for today's high-potential leaders. Although much has been written for practicing coaches, Joan Kofodimos delivers a first-of-its-kind user's guide for coaching consumers. Dozens of checklists, samples, and life-inspired case examples take readers through each and every step of a successful coaching process to benefit participants, coaching sponsors, and the organization's ROI.
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Concise and easily accessible guidebook provides specific information and concrete, actionable steps on how to get the most from the coaching experience. -- T+D, June 2007
Executives and HR managers must choose among many techniques delivered by coaches with widely varying experience and training. To help combat this growing problem, Kofodimos wrote this book. -- CRM Customer Relationship Management, July 2007
When coaching is provided to a group of staffing firm mangers, it can increase the firm's ability to deliver value to clients. ...this book may help. -- Staffing Success, April 1, 2008
Executives and HR managers must choose among many techniques delivered by coaches with widely varying experience and training. To help combat this growing problem, Kofodimos wrote this book. -- CRM Customer Relationship Management, July 2007
When coaching is provided to a group of staffing firm mangers, it can increase the firm's ability to deliver value to clients. ...this book may help. -- Staffing Success, April 1, 2008
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Coaching in business has come a long way. Once used primarily to deal with "problem" employees, this powerful tool for improving performance and enhancing career growth has become a symbol of status among today's high-potential leaders. While much has been written for practicing coaches, this timely new book delivers a first-of-its-kind user's guide for executives and managers considering coaching for themselves or for a member of their team.
Joan Kofodimos draws on her nearly 25 years of pioneering work in the field to lay out in precise detail what coaching candidates should look for and what results they can expect: guidelines to evaluate the potential value of coaching; criteria for choosing the right coach based on experience, focus, and personal fit;" and critical action steps in moving from assessment to behavior change. Dozens of checklists, sample meeting agendas and coaching contracts, dialogue scripts, and life-inspired case examples equip ezecutives and managers with the information they need to enter into a coaching relationship fully prepared to participate as a vested partner--whether establishing a new contract or maximizing the benefits of an existing one. This concise and easily accessible guidebook explores how coaching can address performance issues, develop high-potential leaders, build teams, and support leaders who drive change.
"While targeting executives, YOUR EXECUTIVE COACHING SOLUTION is a comprehensive and user-friendly road map for all members of the executive coaching partnership, executive, sponsoring organization, and coach. This substantive approach to executive coaching will raise the bar for what executives can and should expect. I highly recommend that executive-consumers, organizations, and coaches read and use this book so that all parties can reap the full benefits of executive coaching." --Robert G. Goodman, EdD, Principal, RGoodman Associates; Founding Board Member, The Executive Coaching Forum; Clinical Instructor, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
"Joan Kofodimos has created a sourcebook that is both a reflection on what constitutes coaching excellence and a road map to creating that excellence. I urge every coaching program to recommend this valuable new book to its students. Even better, I recommend that all coaches get a copy as a way of helping themselves maintain an overview of what really matters." --Dorothy E. Siminovitch, PhD, MCC, Co-Chairperson and Director of Training, International Gestalt Coaching Program, Gestalt Institute of Cleveland
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Understanding Executive Coaching,
By Dennis DeWilde "The Performance Connection" (Cleveland area, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE)
This review is from: Your Executive Coaching Solution: Getting Maximum Benefit from the Coaching Experience (Hardcover)
In this easy to read primer - intended for executives considering the application of one-on-one coaching for themselves or someone within their organization - by highly experienced executive coach Joan Kofodimos, the reader gets a complete description of how individual executive coaching works. Starting with a discussion of coaching's potential value; Kofodimos identifies when to use coaching and how to choose a coach; as well as walks the reader through the coaching processes from initial performance contracting to the completion and closure process.
In the opening sections we learn: * All coaching is not the same - development needs determine the shape of the coaching assignment. The author considers the following three as typical: 1) to address performance issues; 2) to support position transition needs; and 3) to enhance strategic effectiveness. * Coaching may not be the solution - whether coaching can help depends upon the readiness of both the individual and the organization. * The coach should fit the need - the coach's competencies and defined role should be identified when choosing a coach. From the coaching process discussion we learn: * The distinction between the contracts with the sponsor and the person to be coached * How the insight phase gathers data, presents feedback, and creates the development plan * How the development cycle works and repeats itself as new behavioral skills are put into practice * How closure of the coaching process is really a transition to self-development In summary, the book is a complete guide to understanding the individual executive coaching process, with a particular focus on individual development. I liked the examples and output samples provided and appreciated the strong emphasis on doing sound background development work (building sponsor as well as coachee commitment, insight development, etc.) before beginning the actual coaching (development cycle) process. I also liked the fact that the author did not feel the need to use her book as a platform to promote herself or her firm, Teleos Consulting - her competency is evident in her understanding of how to do executive coaching. My only regret with the book is that the author might have included a chapter on how the process works when combining organizational coaching (the team element) with one-on-one executive coaching. Dennis DeWilde, author of "The Performance Connection"
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Used the steps defined in the book to help a co-worker improve his performance. Very specific and relevant information.
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Comprehensive guide to executive coaching,
This review is from: Your Executive Coaching Solution: Getting Maximum Benefit from the Coaching Experience (Hardcover)
Life coach. Work coach. Fitness coach. Speech coach. Diet coach. How-to-stop-smoking coach. These days, it seems as if anyone with a Web site and slick advertising can promote his or her expertise in the burgeoning self-help industry. So how do consumers separate the charlatans from the legitimately qualified? Joan Kofodimos says that educating the public motivated her to produce "the first comprehensive guide to executive coaching." After all, executives spending an average of $50,000 for a program might as well get their money's worth. Kofodimos knows her stuff, having entered the field 25 years ago, "before the term executive coaching even existed." She explains how executives should select coaches and what they can expect from a reputable program. We strongly recommend that you read this book before embarking on your journey of self-improvement.
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