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Executive Coaching: Practices and Perspectives Hardcover – February 11, 2002

by Catherine Fitzgerald (Editor), Jennifer Garvey Berger (Editor)

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As today's business leaders are rapidly discoveriong a true and trusted partner in the professionals pioneering the new frontier of executive coaching, Executive Coaching will lead the way as the first resource to bring together the theory and methods of this growing professional practice.

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392 pages
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English
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UNKNO
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February 11, 2002
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6.3 x 1.18 x 9.29 inches
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0891061614
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978-0891061618
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Coaching has for too long been relegated to the bottom of most consultants' bags of fixes. More properly called "executive development," this field is becoming one of the hotter areas in the training world because of today's need to retain and develop superior talent. This excellent book of essays and articles by the top people in the industry is the first to integrate the theory and practice of this emerging field.

One of the central tenets of the book is that psychological training is central to the in-depth coaching process. The publisher, Davies-Black, is an imprint of Consulting Psychologists Press (the developers of the famous Myers-Briggs personality-type instrument) and thus there is the requisite focus on understanding the complexities of various "type interactions" in the workplace as part of the coaching process. Nevertheless, the text is solid and understandable, with some sophisticated, challenging, and often provocative arguments. For example, the book examines the collaboration between coaches and organization development experts and suggests that an executive's problems may stem not from poor interpersonal skills but from poor organizational structure, inadequate ground rules, or unclear decision-making processes.

Though it can sometimes seem academic in its approach, this beautifully packaged book is complemented by highly practical conversations, exercises, and checkpoints to determine the depth of learning. Human resources professionals, trainers, and consultants looking for guidance on the skills required to implement a topnotch executive coaching program will find this compendium by some of the top professionals in the field absolutely invaluable and well worth its price tag. --Charles Decker

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A catalyst to help us consider the many issues surrounding the practice of executive coaching. Gives you a better understanding. -- Training, August 2002

Explores coaching models and perspectives, best practices, managing coaching in organization, and special issues and situations. -- The Midwest Book Review, April 2002

Rich insights, diverse ideas. Diverse knowledge here can serve as a roadmap through the complex universe of the leader's mind. -- Soundview Executive Book Summaries, June 2002

Something of interest and use for almost anyone, including HR executives. -- Peer Resources Top Coaching Books, July 2004

You may find this very practical in understanding what coaches do and in being sure you select a good one. -- GetAbstract, March 2003

From the Publisher

High praise for this book comes from William Bridges, author of Transitions and Managing Transition; Lynda Gratton, London Business School; Carole Dickert-Scherr, vice president of human resources at PBS; Robert Kegan, Harvard University; Philip Harkins, president & CEO, Linkage Inc.; The Executive Coaching Forum; Robert Reynolds, vice chairman and COO, Fidelity Investments; Lily Kelly-Radford, vice president of leadership development, Center for Creative Leadership; and many others.

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From start-up entrepreneurs to CEOs of Fortune 100 companies, today's busines leaders are turning to executive coaches to help them face the enormous challenges of staying competitive in a fast-changing marketplace, motivating an increasingly diverse workforce, and delivering improved bottom-line results. Organizations, too, are realizing how effective executive coaching can be in helping their leaders address specific skill deficits, enhance performance, and grow into expanded leadership roles. Yet until now there has been no comprehensive resource professionals could turn to for sound advice on this emerging field.

In this cutting-edge volume, Catherine Fitzgerald and Jennifer Garvey Berger have assembled sixteen chapters by an elite group of seasoned professionals--executive coaches who have worked with senior executives around the world and human resource managers who have designed successful executive coaching programs in organizations. These contributors consider the key aspects of the craft of executive coaching: principles and guidelines for practitioners, techniques for supporting complexity of mind in executives, tips for dealing with failure in coaching, and a reflective practice approach for coaches. EXECUTIVE COACHING: PRACTICES & PERSPECTIVES offers strategies for dealing with different client populations, getting executive coaching started within an organization, linking coaching with business strategy, integrating the use of internal and external coaches, and avoiding common mistakes in executive coaching--everything you need to know now about this exciting coaching arena.

About the Author

Jennifer Garvey Berger, EdD uses her expertise in complexity of mind to support leaders internationally through coaching and leadership development programs in private sector organizations such as Fidelity and Microsoft as well as public sector agencies. She also teaches coaches at universities including Georgetown University, the University of Sydney, Oxford Brookes University. Jennifer blogs about leadership development for the Center for Public Leadership at the Kennedy School of Government. Her book on complexity of mind and leadership will be published by Yale University Press in 2012. Jennifer has a Masters degree and a Doctorate from Harvard University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ UNKNO; 1st edition (February 11, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 392 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0891061614
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0891061618
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.8 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.18 x 9.29 inches

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Jennifer Garvey Berger believes that leadership is one of the most vital renewable resources in the world. At a time when organisations are often forging the path rather than following the path of others, leadership is about creating the conditions for people to be their most creative, connected, intelligent selves. She is a founding partner and CEO of Cultivating Leadership, a consultancy that serves executives and executive teams in the private, non-profit, and government sectors around the world. Her clients include Google, Microsoft, Novartis, Wikipedia, and Oxfam International. Jennifer designs and teaches leadership programs, coaches senior teams, and supports new ways of thinking about strategy and people with clients facing these dramatic shifts in complexity, volatility, and change in their workplaces and markets. She blends deep theoretical knowledge with a driving quest for practical ways to make leaders’ lives better.

Jennifer also supports leaders one-on-one as a leadership coach. She supports clients to find their current growing edge and then make choices about how they want to grow, and she teaches coaches around the world transformational and developmental coaching approaches in her Growth Edge Coaching certification series. Jennifer speaks at leadership and coaching conferences, and she offers occasional courses for coaches at universities all over the world like Harvard University, the University of Sydney, and Oxford Brookes University.

Jennifer holds a doctorate in adult development from Harvard University, where she studied under and worked with acclaimed developmental psychologist Robert Kegan. She was an Associate Professor at George Mason University before she left the academy on a mission to connect powerful research and the people doing real work in the world. Jennifer is an American by birth, a Kiwi by choice, and finds herself living now in London, far from her beach house on the Tasman Sea. Wherever she might call home, she loves laughing with her two nearly-grown children, rolling on the floor with her dog, and writing about leading, coaching, and living.

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Gordon Randall

Solid Introductory Tool for Those Interested in Coaching

Reviewed in the United States on June 7, 2009

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I recently had need to get a good handle on business-focused coaching and its application in succession planning and career development.

This book provided that "in spades" ... an excellent overview with practical information from a wide range of experts who were effectively shared their experiences in responding to challenges faces in a variety of business environments.

A wonderful reference!

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Geoffrey Abbott

Superb source of knowledge

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2013

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This book is one of my all time favourites. Each chapter has something wise to say about coaching and although it is over ten years old the insights are just as relevant. There are a lot of coaching books around and not too many are worth the investment frankly. This one is though!

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Very helpful reference guide.

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A Good Read!

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2003

Organizational consultants Catherine Fitzgerald and Jennifer Garvey Berger offer a collection of articles by 16 executive coaches, including themselves. The essays cover executive coaching perspectives, practices and management. This book examines the range of managerial and psychological approaches shaping this emerging field. These expert articles provide a diverse overview, varying in complexity, practicality and therapeutic philosophies. The hazard of anthologies is the mix of voices, so there is some blurring between what is coaching and what is therapy, and some drift about exactly who is being spoken to, the coach, the manager or the executive. The book seems to focus primarily on the analytical, psychological and tactical tasks of coaches. However, we from getAbstract suggest that if you are hiring a coach for yourself or your organization, you may find this very practical in understanding what coaches do and in being sure you select a good one.

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Elijah Chingosho

Insightful Read

Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2007

The editors, Catherine Fitzgerald and Jennifer Garvey Berger, came up with a high quality, lucid and readable book which is a diverse collection of contributions from an elite group of experienced and knowledgeable executive coaches. I was excited to go through the different perspectives and methodologies which should appeal to a wide readership.

Those wishing to develop their coaching skills will find the book fascinating and enlightening. I believe that this is one of the most important coaching related books on the market.

The book is excellent reading for coaches, executives, human resource professionals, trainers, consultants and others with an interest in executive coaching.

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Lightray

A Diversity of Approaches

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2003

Executive Coaching: Practices & Perspectives, is an excellent and timely text consisting of 16 chapters written by 20 contributors, the editors also being contributors, providing a wide breadth of information and references. It provides a rare opportunity to shadow many experienced coaches from diverse backgrounds and learnings. I applaud the editors for what is a very successful attempt to weave many different "essays" into a coherent book. The writing styles and approaches are different for each of the chapters resulting in many practices and theories, and many modes of learning for the reader. Executive coaching is still a fairly new profession and this book provides a wide variety of perspectives not typically shared among peers.
Although titled Executive Coaching, it indirectly explores the diversity of individual and organizational learning and change with a keen appreciation for the complexities of the human mind. For executive coaching, as in organizational development consulting, one size does not fit all. The diversity of approaches from the respective authors reflects the strength of belief in their own methods when dealing with the complexity and diversity of the human mind; and reveals the many barriers to individual learning and ultimately organizational learning. In many ways the book is about organizational development and organizational learning brought to an individual level.
Most of the contributors have psychology backgrounds; however, the editors have made a good attempt to look at executive coaching from a variety of lenses, with a noticeable influence of Carl Jung and Robert Kegan. As an organizational development consultant and executive coach, I find some bias toward the need for a psychology or psychotherapy background in some of the chapters. Does one need a degree in psychology to have an understanding of a variety of perceptual views through intentional, behavioral, cultural, and social dimensions, for example? I don't believe so.
There are many issues that emerge when we have conversations at personal and sometimes intimate levels. Do we dare go where no non-psychotherapist has gone before? I believe the human psyche is much less fragile than most psychotherapists, and even psychologists, might have us believe. And as organizational change consultants, how much damage have we inflicted because we dared not to tread, or even look, in those heretofore-protected domains?
Where is the line drawn between learning and repair, or between personal growth and cure? The authors have drawn their lines and they are in different places. I do believe, when coaching Executives, it is essential to have a greater depth of knowledge and abilities as an observer and guide.
I believe executive coaching can increase the potential for profound change. Peter Senge, in his book The Dance of Change, describes profound change as "organizational change that combines inner shifts in people's values, aspirations, and behaviors with 'outer' shifts in processes, strategies, practices, and systems ... In profound change there is learning." (p 15) W. Edwards Deming said, "Nothing changes without personal transformation."
Executive coaching allows us to further shift the learning paradigms of our clients. We are beginning to apply to individuals what we have applied to organizations. Coaching appears to be the natural progression to double-loop learning at a personal level, in addition to the organizational level, and further progression to triple-loop learning. Double-loop learning is a concept developed by Chris Argyris and Donald Schon based upon the work of Gregory Bateson. The term "triple loop learning" was used by William N. Isaacs, in Taking Flight: Dialogue, Collective Thinking, and Organizational Learning. "Double-loop learning encourages learning for increasing effectiveness. Triple-loop learning is the learning that opens inquiry into underlying 'why's.' It is the learning that permits insight into the nature of paradigm itself, not merely an assessment of which paradigm is superior." Effective coaching includes the practice of Dialogue at a one-to-one level. This "third" level of learning can be called transformational learning. As such, this book could be about transformational learning.
A noticeably missing piece was a chapter on distinguishing coaching from therapy, and addressing some of the boundaries to be considered and what resources the executive coach should have available in assessing and dealing with those boundaries.
Another missing piece was the role our body plays. Recent studies suggest a more holistic approach is needed in our learning - the integration of language, emotions and the body. I am referring to more than the traditional concept of "body language." Albert Einstein said, "My primary process of perceiving is muscular and visual." Richard Heckler, a psychologist and director of the Rancho-Strozzi Institute, says in his book The Anatomy of Change, "An education that connects us with our body would teach us the difference between what we are experiencing and what we are thinking and fantasizing about." (p 12)
Full awareness goes beyond what we are thinking. The body can reflect what we are thinking and feeling and the body can support what we desire to think and feel. Stuart Heller, mathematician, operations researcher, and psychologist, says in his book Retooling on the Run, "To make a change in any part of you, you have to change all of you." (p 10) "Your results are a function of the way you organize and use yourself. By studying your patterns of reaction, belief, tension, feelings, and posture, you learn how you both hinder and help yourself." (p 17)
I highly recommend this book to anyone involved with coaching and executive development. In addition, it offers many insights to any organizational change consultant wishing to search deeper in the psyche of an organization. Many organizations, and individuals, are struggling to find ways of breaking free of traditional thinking and modes of operation to enhance continuous learning. At a minimum, these insights may help forge better partnerships with clients and help facilitate greater awareness, reflection, and ultimately learning.

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