Description
Effective leadership coaching can drastically improve a manager's performance. Unfortunately, good coaching is more than just passing on your own business experience. Developing authentic leadership through coaching is about changing deeply personal, often unconscious, elements of a manager's behaviour.
In this text, Graham Lee explains to coaches how to be more sophisticated in their understanding of psychology and how to develop the skills needed to work on both the psychological and the practical elements of improving managerial performance.
Leadership Coaching sets out a five-stage coaching model, and works through each of these stages in detail, highlighting the skills that coaches require and the issues they are likely to face. It also offers HR managers sponsoring coaching an understanding of the competencies necessary for effective coaching, and provides a standard procedure for buying in coaching services.Contents
The Challenge of Authentic Leadership
The ACE FIRST Model of Change
The Role of the Unconscious
Learning
Assessing
Story-making
Enabling
Reframing
Qualities and CompetenciesAuthors
Graham Lee
Graham Lee is Director of Coaching at OCG Limited, a business psychology consultancy. His pioneering approach to coaching, developed over the last decade, draws on his extensive training and experience as a psychotherapist, as well as his business experience as a manager within the pharmaceutical industry.Reviews
'Leadership coaching has become a key to success for both individuals and organisations. Graham Lee demonstrates here that he is a master of the field, packing his book with insights and practical ideas. No one has done a better job of integrating our understandings from psychology into the training of today's leaders. I enthusiastically recommend this book to managers, coaches, therapists and students.'
David Gergen
Director, Center for Public Leadership
John F Kennedy School, Harvard University and Former Adviser to Four US Presidents
'A wise and thought provoking account of professional coaching. Graham Lee invites us to look more deeply at managerial motivations, and shows how coaching can guide the process of increasing self-awareness and creating lasting change. The model of authentic leadership is particularly useful; I could immediately recognise how colleagues fit within it, and so understand the psychological journey that coaching will need to entail.'
Stuart Horwood
Managing Director
BT Wholesale Markets
'If you are going to read just one book on coaching this year, this is the one.'
David Megginson
Professor of HRD
Sheffield Hallam University and co-chair European Mentoring & Coaching Council