Executive Coaching for Results
The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders
By: Brian Underhill, Kimcee McAnally, John Koriath
Published: January, 2008
ISBN: 9781576754481
Format: Hardcover, 188pp
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Executive coaching has come of age, and is now an integral part of a company's leadership development process, writes Brian Underhill, Kimcee McAnally, and John Koriath, in their important book
Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders. The book provides a comprehensive guide for using coaching to develop talent and to demonstrate its positive impact on the organization's bottom line.
Brian Underhill (photo left)
Instead of taking the how to coach methodology of most books on the topic, the authors take an overall strategic approach to coaching. The resulting definitive textbook on leadership coaching within organizations is valuable for companies of all sizes, and across most industry lines. A balanced approach is taken to the new importance of executive coaching, including the necessity for encouraging the growth of a culture of coaching. The buy in for top management is in the form of how coaching can enhance the business profitability.
Kimcee McAnally (photo left)
Instead of writing a book on how to coach, the authors chose an overall technique that is inclusive and ongoing for the organization's future. Recognizing that coaching is a continuous process, the writers demonstrate how and why coaching can and should be part of any company's management development strategy. The book is about finding and measuring results, and therefore coaching becomes a crucial part of the management team. With existing leaders as coaches, and by better understanding of the coaching process, the entire corporate culture can be transformed to one of continual development.
John Koriath (photo left)
For me, the power of the book is its emphasis on coaching as part of the profit building process. As leaders develop, their management skills strengthen over time. These valuable qualities can then be passed along to the next generation of the company's leaders. By building the coaching aspect into the organizational culture, and measuring its impact, the best employees are retained and the company's profits expand accordingly.
I highly recommend Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders by Brian Underhill, Kimcee McAnally, and John Koriath, as the definitive textbook on coaching for measurable results in both the company leadership and on the organizational bottom line.
Read Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders by Brian Underhill, Kimcee McAnally, and John Koriath and make leadership coaching part of your successful business.
