Product Description

More and more leaders and their organizations are becoming convinced in the business case for creating a "coaching culture". This book provides the tools for leaders and teams to develop a common language and shared protocol and a learning and development orientation towards people. These critical dynamics support the entire culture becoming a "feedback-rich, high-performance" organization.

For this to occur, a common coaching approach driven by coaching UP, DOWN, and SIDEWAYS is necessary. Coaching flows in all directions to managers, peers, and direct reports. Coaching becomes the normal "way we do things around here."

The premise of "The Heart of Coaching" was never more true. "As coaching becomes a predominant cultural practice...it will create a performance-focused, feedback-rich organization capable of creating and sustaining a competitive advantage."

This "Second Edition" makes the use of the enhanced coaching model easier to use than ever, since it now includes a colorized snapout reference card. Additionally, several powerful enhancements of the Transformational Coaching methodology make it one of the most comprehensive, and systematic approaches to coaching you will find today.

It guides leaders, managers, and entire teams who want to enhance or master their coaching skills through 2 critical aspects of coaching: 1. establishing authentic, healthy and respectful coaching relationships, and 2. organizing and conducting the actual coaching conversations that lead to commitments for positive results that both the coach and the coachee are willing to support.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22950 in Books
• Published on: 2007-03-01
• Released on: 2007-03-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780966087437
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Emotional intelligence" - the secret to gaining a competitive edge - here's a road map for developing emotionally intelligent coaches. -- David Grudermeyer, Ph.D. & Rebecca Grudermeyer, Psy.D., Directors of Willingness Works, and co-authors of Collier's 1997 Mental Health Book of the Year, Sensible Self-Help.

The Heart of Coaching creates a shared vocabulary and high-performance focus that will get results in any organization! -- Skip Oppenheimer, Chairman/CEO, Oppenheimer Companies, Inc.

The concept of Boss as Coach is a compelling one, and Transformational Coaching will define leadership in the 21st Century. Tom Crane provides a mechanism for individual and organizational change that will add enormous value to people and their organizations. -- Eric Mokover, Asst. Dean and Director, MBA Program, The Anderson School of Management, UCLA

The concept of Boss as Coach is a compelling one, and Transformational Coaching will define leadership in the 21st Century. -- Eric Mokover, Asst. Dean and Director, MBA Program, The Anderson School of Management, UCLA

The most overlooked and underestimated secret to gaining the competitive edge in business is "emotional intelligence." The Heart of Coaching provides a brilliantly practical and long overdue 3/4 road map for developing executives and managers into emotionally intelligent coaches. A must read-and-use for anyone who has realized that building success requires the know-how to compassionately foster self-responsibility and collaboration in teams. -- David Grudermeyer, Ph.D. & Rebecca Grudermeyer, Psy.D., Directors of Willingness Works, and co-authors of Collier's 1997 Mental Health Book of the Year, Sensible Self-Help.

This process works! It gets to the truth…with heart...a rare book full of common sense and applicability. -- James E. Newton, CEO, Newton Learning Corporation

This provides a powerful communication process that insures “connection and comprehension” occur between the coach and the coachee. -- Craig Neilsen, Ph.D., Director, Organizational Effectiveness and Learning, Micronpc.com

This work is right on point! Performance management is the business issue of our times and coaching is THE requisite skill for all leaders who need to get the best from their teams. Every practitioner will benefit from Tom's contagiously passionate approach, guaranteed to help you and your team. -- C.O. Woody, Senior Vice President, Florida Power & Light

From the Publisher
This book is destined to make an impact on the leadership styles and cultures of the leaders who read and apply this transformational approach. It will be an invaluable investment in developing contemporary leadership competencies in leading the three different generations working side-by-side in our organizations. Connecting with people to discover what makes them "tick" is a rich and underdeveloped source of genuine influence and power. Transformational Coaching provides the framework for creating this deeper level of trust and mutual support.

From the Author
In the years I have worked with leaders and their teams to create high-performance, no leaders have been more powerful and effective with people than the ones who have decided to become a coach. Shifting both mindset and skillset from being "The Boss" to being "The Coach" is one of the most powerful transformations a leader can make as they develop their capacity to lead.

THE BOSS pushes people for results, THE COACH lifts people to higher level of performance; THE BOSS tells people what to do, THE COACH asks questions to see what people feel should be done; THE BOSS unwittingly triggers insecurity, THE COACH consciously triggers creativity; THE BOSS knows the answers, THE COACH seeks the answers; THE BOSS wants to achieve compliance, THE COACH inspires commitment; THE BOSS is focused only on results, THE COACH balances focus on process and performance; THE BOSS tries to get the most from people, THE COACH works to get the best from people.

Customer Reviews

Great book: style, substance, process and practicality.
If you are looking for an excellent training tool on coaching (and in today's business climate, we all probably should be), you definitely should consider Tom Crane's book The Heart of Coaching. The book is excellent in both style and substance. As for style, the book is written in plain English, with an "easy to read" visual format. As to substance, the book has chapter after chapter of useable and substantive information. Further, the book has both process (the central feature of the book is not just coaching, but "transformational coaching as a process") and practicality (as just one example, you will get genuine assistance from the insightful list of differences between "bosses" on the one hand and "coaches" on the other).

Finally, don't skip over the section of the book dealing with the personal side of coaching, the "heart" of the transformational coach. In this section, you will find the "Transformational Coach's Credo". The credo may not state anything which is revolutionarily new but, if followed consistently, the credo would certainly help the typical department workplace to exude greater enthusiasm, productivity and camaraderie (come to think of it, maybe such results could be considered revolutionary!).

From the Heart AND A Big Potential Pay-Off for Companies
In a September 2000 Time Magazine article there was an important message for organizations about coaching: Ours is a fast-paced and changing marketplace and there's a big potential pay-off for companies whose managers know how to help valued employees develop and adapt to the changes. Crane's superior book shows how to do that -- how to provide feedback with respect, with clarity, and in a partnership that empowers people to contribute increasingly at higher levels of performance. It is current, practical, and my key resource in teaching managers how to coach. I particularly appreciate the "heart" of this approach -- the commitment to know and appreciate people as human beings and to transcend the traditional boss/subordinate relationship. If you are a manager, get this book. If you are a professional coach to managers, get this book.

Should be on the bookshelf of every organizational leader!
I was in the middle of reading Dan Goleman's book, WORKING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. I kept thinking, "This is great, but how does one apply the concepts?" Then one of my colleagues gave me a copy of THE HEART OF COACHING. It answered my question. Tom Crane has written a clear and concise book. His ideas on "transformational" coaching as an ongoing cycle of creating a solid "foundation", developing a "learning loop", and "forwarding the action" is a practical description of how to create empowerment and high performance in any organization. I am recommending this highly readable and extremely useful guide to all who are interested in putting the"heart" back into the work we all do.