Product Description

According to a recent study, there is a 40% failure rate among executives in the U.S. today. To combat the difficulties inherent in assuming high-level corporate roles companies are using new tools to help executives achieve maximum effectiveness, including the hiring of an executive coach.

This unique book, written by a trained psychologist and executive coach with decades of experience as a business executive, offers a step-by-step guide to the practice of executive coaching. Using actual case studies, the author builds a multidimensional approach to coaching; clients are encouraged to look at multiple forces in their lives, including the Individual and the Organization, Unconscious Forces, Multi-Level Forces, and their Use of Self. Examining each force then guides the executive coach in joint goal setting, commitment to a coaching contract, meeting objectives, evaluating outcomes, and concluding the coaching process.

Written specifically for graduate students--of applied psychology and related disciplines--who wish to practice executive coaching, this text will enlighten anyone in business who would like to use executive coaching to improve his or her organization.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1135937 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 236 pages

About the Author
Ruth Orenstein, PsyD, consults, teaches, researches, and writes in the area of organizational psychology, specializing in executive development at the individual and group level. She is President of Princeton Consulting Resources, Inc. (PCRI), a member of the part time faculties of Rutgers University's Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology and the Wharton School's Aresty Institute of Executive Education, and a founding Board Member of the Graduate School Alliance for Executive Coaching.

Dr. Orenstein has extensive consulting experience in both corporate and non-profit organizations and has provided executive coaching to hundreds of senior leaders. She has held senior line management positions in several Fortune 500 corporations and, prior to founding PCRI, was a senior vice president at the Chemical Banking Corporation, with full P&L responsibility for the retail branch system in central and southern New Jersey. She has taught courses in Management and Organizational Psychology at the graduate and undergraduate levels at the New School for Social Research, Adelphi University, and Rutgers University, where she also created and directed the Organizational Psychology Consulting Group at the Center for Applied Psychology.

Customer Reviews

Excellent!
This book does exactly what it purports to do. It provides the framework, from the initial interview through termination, for successful executive coaching. In addition, it provides clear standards for judging that success. The approach is unique in that it is individual--both to the people involved and the corporations within which they work. This approach requires substantial professional knowledge and (perhaps most importantly) intense self knowledge on the part of the coach. It is absolutely refreshing to read a very well written book on this topic which doesn't ignore the fact that real human beings with real strengths and weaknesses are those who need coaching.

Outstanding work
Ruth Orenstein has made an important contribution to the practice of organizational consulting in her book, "Multidimensional Executive Coaching." MEC presents a theory-guided approach in which readers are shown clear examples as to how this technique works. Orenstein incorporates a psychodynamic perspective whereby the thoughts and feelings of a coach are considered "data" to be included in understanding a client. As readers are taken through the steps involved in coaching a client, the author addresses real-world, practical implications. Ultimately, this is a book for practitioners. One need not understand the theoretical underpinnings across varying schools of thought in order to understand and improve upon the coaching process. Orenstein has done the work for us; she is a coach for coaches. -- A. F. Simon, Ph.D., Psy.D.

Fantastic!
Dr. Orenstein has created a uniquely "multidimensional" approach to executive coaching. While most of the literature in this field is devoid of theory, the author has raised the bar in developing not only a conceptual framework but a clear and immensely usable methodology. Her case descriptions are insightful, sensitive and at the same time instructive. This book is essential reading for anyone new to the field as well as the seasoned professional.