At last, from a leading authority on the subject of coaching, a revised edition of the best-selling Masterful Coaching. This groundbreaking book outlines a model of coaching-style management that will help readers become a “masterful coach.” It will help the reader gain commitment, release creativity, and help people learn, grow, and perform to their maximum ability.
Book Details:
- Author: Robert Hargrove
- ISBN: 9780470329894
- Year Published: 2003
- Pages: 304
- BISAC: BUS106000, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS/Mentoring & Coaching
About the Book and Topic:
At last, from a leading authority on the subject of coaching, a revised edition of the best-selling Masterful Coaching. This groundbreaking book outlines a model of coaching-style management that will help readers become a “masterful coach.” It will help the reader gain commitment, release creativity, and help people learn, grow, and perform to their maximum ability.
Written as an interactive dialogue with the reader, Masterful Coaching emphasizes core coaching skills sponsoring, counseling, acknowledging, teaching and confronting. Provides examples of coaching for breakthrough results from leading companies. Essentially, the book will continue the model of the first one which shows readers how to transform the way people think and work together, encourage productive contributions from individuals and groups, and expand people’s capacity to achieve goals and realize change. This personal guidebook offers specific strategies for transforming readers into a facilitative leader, coach, and mentor. It offers guiding ideas, tools, and methods to help you achieve desired results by bringing about profound changes in thinking and behavior with individuals and groups. In part one the author will offer a chapter on Masterful Coaching for Executives that would be relevant for any senior leader, HR professional, or consultant. This chapter will show how to coach executives to be at “source” in creating a new future for their organization as opposed to simply reacting or responding to their organization. The author will also clarify and improve what he has previously written on transformational learning versus transactional learning now having field-tested those ideas. He will clarify Triple Loop learning, which is one of the key topics that makes masterful coaching sell. The author is planning to include a chapter on the five-step Masterful Coaching method, which appears in the Masterful Coaching Fieldbook over six chapters. In part two, the author will write a chapter on how to powerfully coach people in groups based on an Action Learning approach (the “hot seat”). The process teaches “leaders” how to be masterful coaches in the process of challenging each person in their group to achieve extraordinary business breakthrough, an extraordinary leadership breakthrough, and an extraordinary team breakthrough over the course of one year.
This new edition is thoroughly revised and includes popular material with field-tested and research-based information. * Offers new information that will appeal to a broad audience including he senior management. * Provides salient, proven tools and techniques that may be personalized for the potential coach. * Includes information that taps into the key trends in the HRD field.
About the Author
Robert Hargrove is the founder of Masterful Coaching Inc . He is an internationally-acclaimed speaker on the topics of sourcing a powerful future, mastering the art of creative collaboration, and masterful coaching. Hargrove’s presentations, laced with wisdom, compassion, and humor, are the backbone of the executive coaching programs he provides for executives from such companies as Fidelity Investments, Adidas, and Ciba Geigy, Conoco, Philips Electronics, Lockheed Martin, Microcell Communications.