Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenge
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MARY BETH O'NEILL is a senior consultant for LIOS Consulting Corporation at the Leadership Institute of Seattle at Bastyr University. She has successfully coached CEOs, senior executives, and other leaders for twenty years.
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Preface Acknowledgements The Author
Part One: Core Concepts: The Coach's Stance
1. An Introduction to Executive Coaching
2. Developing a Strong Signature Presence
3. Systems Thinking: Understanding Challenges of the Executive Coach
4. The Triangled Coach: Being Effecitve in the Middle
Part Two: The Four Phases of Coaching
5. Phase 1 -
Contracting: Find a Way to Be a Partner
6. Phase 2 -
Action Planning: Keep Ownership with the Client
7. Phase 3 -
Live-Action Coaching: Strike When the Iron is Hot
8. Phase 4 -
Debreifing: Define a Learning Focus
Part Three: Special Applications
9. Making a Strategic Transition to the Role of Executive Coach
10. Helping Leaders Effectively Coach Employees
Part One: Core Concepts: The Coach's Stance
1. An Introduction to Executive Coaching
2. Developing a Strong Signature Presence
3. Systems Thinking: Understanding Challenges of the Executive Coach
4. The Triangled Coach: Being Effecitve in the Middle
Part Two: The Four Phases of Coaching
5. Phase 1 -
Contracting: Find a Way to Be a Partner
6. Phase 2 -
Action Planning: Keep Ownership with the Client
7. Phase 3 -
Live-Action Coaching: Strike When the Iron is Hot
8. Phase 4 -
Debreifing: Define a Learning Focus
Part Three: Special Applications
9. Making a Strategic Transition to the Role of Executive Coach
10. Helping Leaders Effectively Coach Employees
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"Executives are tough customers with high expectations. This direct and pragmatic book reveals the importance of the coach's immediacy and self-awareness in the successful coaching of top leaders." --Brian Clewes, senior vice president, human resources, TransAlta Corporation
"O'Neill writes in a way that allows you to see this experienced coach in action. What a wonderful way to learn!" --Geoff Bellman, consultant and author, The Consultant's Calling
"This is an important book. Executive coaches will find in Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart a sensible and sensitive process that leads to guaranteed results." --Carla J. Murray, general manager, The Westin Seattle
"In this book, O'Neill brings form and structure to the art of executive coaching. Novices are provided a path while seasoned practitioners will find affirmation." --Daryl R. Conner, CEO/President, ODR-USA, Inc.
"Effective leaders require courage, compassion, and initiative. O'Neill's systems-based coaching serves as a guide for both coaches and executives to better enable good decisions and good decision-makers." --Paul D. Purcell, president, Beacon Development Group
"O'Neill writes in a way that allows you to see this experienced coach in action. What a wonderful way to learn!" --Geoff Bellman, consultant and author, The Consultant's Calling
"This is an important book. Executive coaches will find in Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart a sensible and sensitive process that leads to guaranteed results." --Carla J. Murray, general manager, The Westin Seattle
"In this book, O'Neill brings form and structure to the art of executive coaching. Novices are provided a path while seasoned practitioners will find affirmation." --Daryl R. Conner, CEO/President, ODR-USA, Inc.
"Effective leaders require courage, compassion, and initiative. O'Neill's systems-based coaching serves as a guide for both coaches and executives to better enable good decisions and good decision-makers." --Paul D. Purcell, president, Beacon Development Group
