The Best In Coaching: Resources - Recent Books Pubished on Coaching

The following are brief excerpts from Soundview Executive Book Summaries - a great resource that I have subscribed to for over 15 years. There greatest value is all the other subjects that are covered and make great resources for your cients.

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COACHED TO LEAD by Susan Battley
Jossey-Bass © 2006, 250 pages, $24.95 (ISBN 0-7879-8144-3).

In Coached to Lead, Battley outlines the five-step coaching model that she has used for 20 years to design hundreds of high-performance pro- grams for people, groups and organizations.

Step 1: Define. Battley asks her clients, “What will success look like for you?” The answers uncover specific objectives and metrics.

Step 2: Assess. Analyze your business or professional situation. Gather valid, timely and pertinent information you can use when developing coaching plans and activities.

Step 3. Plan. Develop your custom action plan. Establish accountabilities and create a specific to-do list. Battley explains that a major goal might need to be broken down into several component goals.

Step 4. Act. In this phase of execution, certain activities and tasks are accomplished. A coach observes and facilitates progress.

Step 5. Review. Finally, you evaluate coaching results and determine whether goals were attained. Battley explains that a review component can include recommendations for a follow-up strategy so coaching accomplishments are fully realized.

In addition, Battley offers a dozen scenarios that represent sensitive coaching situations as well as the easiest ways to resolve them. Battley completes her tour of executive coaching success by telling those who want to sponsor coaching for others how they can raise
the subject and enhance a person’s coaching experience.

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In an effort to help professionals and managers make the most of their careers, management professor Ellen A. Ensher and psychology professor Susan Elaine Murphy have interviewed 50 of America’s most successful mentors and protégés to discover the secrets of great mentoring relationships.

The authors write that there are four differences between their power mentoring approach and traditional mentoring. Power mentoring differs in who initiates the relationship (it is often initiated by the protégé), in the extensive role of tests and challenges, in the prevalence of true reciprocity (both mentor and protégé benefit), and in its generative focus (giving back to the next generation occurs throughout the power mentor’s career).