Book description
If you are a manager or executive who is beginning a coaching
engagement or who is considering a developmental plan that calls for an
executive coach, you need more than a desire to improve your leadership
capabilities. You also need to understand how to get the most from your
work with a professional coach. This guide can help you to understand
the unique nature of a coaching engagement and to assess your readiness
to embark on this method of professional development. The book describes
the three main elements of a coaching engagement-assessment, challenge,
and support- and provides information on how you can collaborate with
your coach in each of these aspects to get the maximum benefits from
coaching. You will also learn how to recognize and overcome your
resistance to the disruption and discomfort brought about by the
behavioral changes that coaching addresses. This series of guidebooks
draws on the practical knowledge that the
Center for Creative Leadership (CCL)
has generated, since its inception in 1970, through its research and
educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands
of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a way
that is distinct from the typical university department, professional
association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply a collection of
individual experts, although the individual credentials of its staff are
impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain
principles in common and working together to understand and generate
practical responses to today's leadership and organizational challenges.
The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specific advice on
how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership challenge. In
doing that, the series carries out CCL's mission to advance the
understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit
of society worldwide.
Wayne Hart is a feedback and coaching manager, and a senior
faculty member at CCL's San Diego campus. He holds a Ph. D. in
psychology and a California Psychology License. Additionally, he has
been certified as a Teaching Member of the International Transactional
Analysis Association. He has published two books and more than a dozen
articles in professional journals.
Karen Kirkland is a licensed clinical psychologist and a
feedback and coaching manager at CCL's San Diego campus. She holds a
Ph. D. in clinical psychology from the University of Missouri and
served previously as Associate Dean of the School of Human Behavior at
United States International University in San Diego. In more than
eighteen years at CCL she has provided feedback services to hundreds
of leaders and executives. She has also written or co-authored
fourteen professional articles.
