Product Description

The field of executive coaching is growing at an astonishing rate. Corporations are increasingly turning to coaching as an intervention, as it offers leaders and managers both on-the-job learning and built-in follow-up. But how can you make the best use of coaching within your organization?

Executive Coaching for Results helps this critical leadership development method come of age. This is not a "how-to-coach book"--there are already plenty of those--but rather a comprehensive guide on how to strategically use coaching to maximize development of talent and link the impact of coaching to bottom-line results. Underhill, McAnally, and Koriath draw on their rigorous original research (through Executive Development Associates) with Fortune 1000 and Global 500 companies such as Disney, IBM, UBS, Unilever and many others, and combine that with their years of industry experience to advance the state of the art.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #288038 in Books
• Published on: 2007-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 189 pages

From the Publisher
Executive Coaching for Results includes topics such as:
* Integrating coaching into your organization's overall leadership development strategy
* Locating and screening coaches worldwide
* Developing an internal coaching program
* Deciding which coaching assessments and instruments are appropriate to your situation
* Measuring the impact and ROI of coaching
* Following up after coaching

Throughout, the authors provide numerous examples from major organizations such as Dell, Johnson and Johnson, Intel, and Wal-Mart. Offering practical learning, best practices, and illuminating case studies, this is the first definitive guide to the effective use of executive coaching in the corporate environment.

From the Back Cover
"Finally, the best of the corporate executive coaching world all in one place! This is the definitive guide."
-- Marshall Goldsmith, author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"Required reading for HR executives, practitioners, and all students having a serious interest in the development of leadership talent."
--Dr. Laurence S. Lyons, founding director, The Metacorp Group, and editor of Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches

About the Author
Brian O. Underhill is the founder of CoachSource and a member of the Alexcel Group. He has contributed to the books Coaching for Leadership, second edition, and Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change.

Kimcee McAnally is an executive coach and consultant in the areas of leadership development, learning and education, and organizational and culture change.

John J. Koriath is President and CEO of Full Circle Learning, Inc.

Customer Reviews

Great resource for HR and Leadership Development Professionals
A quick read. Well organized so you can find exactly what you need. This is a great book for HR and Leadership Development Professionals who want to bring coaching into their organization in a way that makes a positive difference to those being coached and to the organization.

A Standard Text for Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders

This book must already be considered a foundation text for executive coaching's role and practice. The field is defined and framed in the context of the business world and related professional services. Despite its scholarly underpinnings, the book is eminently accessible to any reader and provides immediately useful and practical guidance to the coach, coachee, coaching organization and client company.

The roles of corporate culture, leadership support for coaching, and the more traditional human resource functions in the coaching initiative are explored. `How to' sections on organizing, managing, conducting and evaluating coaching projects provide state-of-the-art standards of practice. The book looks at strategies to develop the coaching profession and ends with a futuristic look at what may lie ahead for the profession.

Every serious practitioner will make a thorough study of this publication.

Comprehensive handbook
As an executive coach and leadership trainer, I see the need for coaching more and more
as a way of attracting, developing and retaining leaders in a very competitive
environment.

This book ably helps remove a lot of the hype and myths around this growing but
fragmented field and it provides a very practical road-map for how to implement a
successful coaching program.

I would have liked to have seen more on the global aspect of coaching but
perhaps that could be the topic of the authors' next book! :)