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.
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
