Author: Dr. Caren Brenda Scheepers
Available Through: Knowledge Resources
Definition of topic:
Coaching Leaders endeavors to assist coaches and leaders to coach their clients or subordinates. The book is also a self-help manual for personal growth in leadership effectiveness. Coaching is defined as an interaction process to facilitate a coachee in achieving goals. Leadership is having influence to bring about change.
Therefore, coaching leaders involves facilitation of leaders? improvement of their leadership skills.
Brief description of the book which can be modified for promotional purposes:
7 Tools have been provided and systematically discussed to provide structure to the content.? Each tool starts with the letter ?P?, such as ?Purpose or Perspective coaching?. The objective, outcome, rational, actual methods and examples have been given for each ?P Tool in coaching?.
The first chapter consists of an overview of coaching and leadership, the next seven provide the 7 tools and the last chapters integrate and align the tools as well as conclude the coaching that the book conducted.
Various cases have been quoted to capture the interest of readers.? They will easily identify with the typical leadership situations in a business environment.? Numerous worksheets have been provided to utilize in coaching sessions. These are practical exercises that the coach and or coachee could apply.
Reasons for a new book in this field:
The demand for coaching is growing rapidly. Many coaches are entering the market, without adequate education in the field.? The book integrates literature on coaching, leadership and psychology into 7 Tools to assist in the actual conducting of coaching.? Coaches could utilize the tools, without having had spent years at university.
Most coaching books are theoretical and do not assist in actual methodologies to utilize during a coaching session. Therefore, this book provides a toolbox to utilize in coaching. It goes further to assist coaches to coach towards a leadership blueprint to truly add value to not only the individual leader, but the organization?s effectiveness.? A model is provided for large scale coaching interventions in organizations.
Major features that make this book unique:
Each of the 7 P Tools, provide direction to coaching leaders.? It provides a sequence of themes to address during individual or team coaching as well as a build up to an organizational intervention.
A Leadership 360 degree assessment is provided as well as an evaluation tool for a large scale coaching interventions. It provides the notion that executive coaching should provide leadership coaching skills and building of a coaching culture in the organization, where leaders coach one another.
The 7 ?P? Tools are:
Purpose coaching to affect inspirational leaders
Progress coaching to affect goal-directed leaders
Process coaching to affect self-regulatory leaders
Perspective coaching to affect objective leaders
Polarity coaching to affect embrace diversity leaders
Political coaching to affect political acumen leaders
Potential coaching to affect cultivate culture leaders
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