Executive Coaching: How to Choose, Use & Maximise Value for Yourself & Your Team - Softcover

Mcadam, Stuart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854182544 ISBN 13: 9781854182548

Publisher: Thorogood, 2005

Synopsis

What you can provide as a coach - and what a good coach can provide for you and your organisation? Will I benefit from coaching? How will I measure the benefits - and will they be lasting ones? How do I choose the right coach and how can I get the maximum value out of the process? This book - by an insider with plenty of experience of hiring coaches and acting as a coach - provides a pragmatic insight into executive coaching for those who: are contemplating a career move and becoming an executive coach; are considering using the executive coaching process for their organization; and, are considering using - or asking their organization for - an executive coach for themselves. McAdam emphasizes the importance of commitment from coach, individual and sponsor [the organization] if coaching is to be of real benefit.

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Review:

"Stuart McAdam's comprehensive study of the coaching environment will guide coaches and participants to focus on the benefits and avoid the dangers of this aspect of people development."--Martin Powell "Managing Partner, Withy King Solicitors "

"As an experienced executive coach I found this book a refreshing read. It highlights many underestimated aspects of Executive Coaching and offers a practical framework and tools."--Dilly Hallett "Consultant Psychologist and Executive Coach "

"... an important, timely and very practical book."--Prof Adrian Furnham "Dept of Psychology, University College "

From the Publisher:

Will I benefit from coaching? How will I measure the benefits - and will they be lasting ones? How do I choose the right coach and how can I get the maximum value out of the process?

This book - by an insider with plenty of experience

of hiring coaches and acting as a coach - provides

a pragmatic insight into executive coaching for those

who:

are contemplating a career move and becoming an executive coach

are considering using the executive coaching

process for their organization

are considering using - or asking their organization for - an executive coach for themselves.

McAdam emphasizes the importance of commitment

from coach, individual and sponsor [the organization] if

coaching is to be of real benefit.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thorogood
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1854182544
• ISBN 13: 9781854182548
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150