Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors - by Brian Underhill & Jonathan Passmore & Marshall Goldsmith (Paperback)

About the Book

"You may have heard of this field of "executive coaching" by now. Perhaps only 40-ish years old as a profession, coaching has experienced meteoric growth over the past two decades. There are a now estimated 70,000 coaches worldwide. Various estimates place the industry at anywhere from $2 billion up to $15 billion per year (US dollars). In the 1980s to early 90s, coaching was initially used mostly for those "problem children" leaders who were in trouble as a last-ditch effort to fix them (or to pretend to try) before letting them go. Coaching was often done in secret, with the coach visiting surreptitiously (or meeting at an undisclosed location), with nearly no one knowing about it - even the coaching invoice line item description would be changed to keep prying eyes from noticing. One coach once told us she had a reputation as "the angel of death" - when she showed up, people knew her leader was on his/her final days. Today coaching is often seen as a badge of honor - a sign that a company wants to invest in your growth and development. Coaching for performance problems has actually decreased steadily in use throughout the years. In our (Underhill) 2018 study, 1/3 of coaches reported coaching for performance problems, which decreased to only a quarter in 2020. A 2007 Harvard Business Review study found that just 12% of assignments were used to address derailing executives"--

Book Synopsis

COACH ME! YOUR PERSONAL BOARD OF DIRECTORS

An indispensable wellspring of advice from the world's foremost leadership experts

In Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World's Greatest Coaches, a team of world-renowned executive coaches and leadership experts delivers a revolutionary collection of contributions from 52 of the globe's leading management thinkers. Each curated piece explores a critical issue in leadership, covering topics like self-awareness, communication, interpersonal relationships, emotional intelligence, delegation, coaching, change management, transition management, execution, and career development.

Among the 50 stories included within, readers will find inspirational and practical advice based on real-world leaders who were forced to transform their company's business model, their organization, or themselves to achieve success. Each concise, actionable chapter lets you be a fly on the wall of a successful leader demonstrating a solution to a commonly encountered leadership problem.

Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors also provides:

• Thorough introductions to self-examination and self-awareness, including maximizing the impact of feedback and proven techniques to ensure your leadership measures up
• Comprehensive explorations of communication and interpersonal relationship skills, including treatments of authenticity and cultural fluency
• Practical discussions of emotional intelligence, including the management of out-of-control feelings and conflict management
• In-depth examinations of change and transition management, including explorations of the first 100 days as a new leader and how to lead teams through crises

Perfect for managers, executives, and business leaders of all kinds, Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World's Greatest Coaches will also earn a place in the libraries of the coaches, consultants, and other professionals who work with leaders in government, business, and the nonprofit sectors.

From the Back Cover

An indispensable wellspring of advice from the world's foremost leadership experts

In Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World's Greatest Coaches, a team of world-renowned executive coaches and leadership experts delivers a revolutionary collection of contributions from 52 of the globe's leading management thinkers. Each curated piece explores a critical issue in leadership, covering topics like self-awareness, communication, interpersonal relationships, emotional intelligence, delegation, coaching, change management, transition management, execution, and career development.

Among the 50 stories included within, readers will find inspirational and practical advice based on real-world leaders who were forced to transform their company's business model, their organization, or themselves to achieve success. Each concise, actionable chapter lets you be a fly on the wall of a successful leader demonstrating a solution to a commonly encountered leadership problem.

Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors also provides:

• Thorough introductions to self-examination and self-awareness, including maximizing the impact of feedback and proven techniques to ensure your leadership measures up
• Comprehensive explorations of communication and interpersonal relationship skills, including treatments of authenticity and cultural fluency
• Practical discussions of emotional intelligence, including the management of out-of-control feelings and conflict management
• In-depth examinations of change and transition management, including explorations of the first 100 days as a new leader and how to lead teams through crises

Perfect for managers, executives, and business leaders of all kinds, Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World's Greatest Coaches will also earn a place in the libraries of the coaches, consultants, and other professionals who work with leaders in government, business, and the nonprofit sectors.

About the Author

Brian Underhill, PhD, is the Founder and CEO of CoachSource, the world's largest executive coaching provider. He received his doctorate in organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles.

Jonathan Passmore is Senior Vice President, CoachHub, the digital coaching platform, professor of coaching and behavioural change at Henley Business School, licensed psychologist, an award-winning coach, researcher, and author. He is the editor of the eight volume Wiley Blackwell Series on Industrial Psychology.

Marshall Goldsmith, PhD, is a celebrated executive and leadership coach and author of the New York Times Bestsellers MOJO, What Got You Here Won't Get You There, and Triggers.