Full Description
Lessons from an Executive Coach is designed to help coaches, at any stage in their
careers, to understand the realities of executive coaching. That is, to gain an insight
into what it is like to sit down with a range of very different clients and work with each
of them as their coaching journey unfolds and evolves. Drawing on his own extensive
experience, master coach Iain McCormick helps readers learn not by setting out the
dry theories and processes of coaching, but by presenting a series of engaging,
fictionalized case stories in a way that is designed to reveal the challenges, successes,
failures and insights inherent in each. From Adam, a middle manager whose story
reveals the enduring positivity at the heart of the coaching mindset, to Amanda, a
young accountant whose story reveals how learning can still take place even if goals
are not met, Lessons from an Executive Coach offers a colourful and accessible
account of coaching in action from both the client's and the coach's perspective.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. The Story of Coaching and its Impact
3. The Bali Moment: The Client Finds Her Own
Unique Solution
4. The Problem Isn't That: Getting to the Heart
of the Presenting Issue
5. What Questions: Using Provocative Inquiry
to Facilitate Change
6. The Power of Reflection: Holding a Mirror
for the Client
7. Constructive Yet Challenging: The Power of
Empathic Confrontation
8. Reflective Feedback: The Reality as the
Coach Sees It
9. Holding To Account: Collaborative
Responsibility
10. When The Going Gets Tough: Keep Going
11. Changing The Lens: The Value of Reframing
12. Using Your Gut: Instinct as a Driver of Change
13. When Insight Is Enough: Sometimes Telling
the Story is Sufficient
14. Schema Coaching: Letting Stress Go
15. Coaching Coaches and the Power of
Deliberate Practice
16. When to Refer On: You Can't Coach Everyone
17. You Cannot Win Them All: We All Fall Short
Sometimes
