Book description
Rich in detail from the authors' work with clients in Fortune 500
companies, Adaptive Coaching offers a unique client-centered focus on
how people prefer to be coached. Combining 30 years of experience,
Bacon and Spear deliver the tools and techniques coaches need to
identify clients' real needs, negotiate expectations, understand and
adapt to different coaching style preferences, manage the dialogue and
help clients change. The authors identify eight distinct coaching
styles--teacher, parent, manager, philosopher, facilitator, counselor,
colleague, and mentor. They also include examples of coaching dialogue
and explore in detail the special challenges of coaching across
cultures and generations, and of coaching women, minorities and
C-level executives.
Terry R. Bacon, Ph. D. is a prolific author, popular speaker, master
coach, and teacher of coaching. He is founder and chairman of Lore
International Institute (with a strategic alliance to Heidrick &
Struggles, the world's premier executive search firm). Karen I. Spear,
Ph. D. is a senior researcher for the Lore Research Institute and
director of the Institute's Peer Review Program.
