Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) - Tapa dura

"Executives are tough customers with high expectations. This direct and pragmatic book reveals the importance of the coach's immediacy and self-awareness in the successful coaching of top leaders." --Brian Clewes, senior vice president, human resources, TransAlta Corporation "O'Neill writes in a way that allows you to see this experienced coach in action. What a wonderful way to learn!" --Geoff Bellman, consultant and author, The Consultant's Calling "This is an important book. Executive coaches will find in Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart a sensible and sensitive process that leads to guaranteed results." --Carla J. Murray, general manager, The Westin Seattle "In this book, O'Neill brings form and structure to the art of executive coaching. Novices are provided a path while seasoned practitioners will find affirmation." --Daryl R. Conner, CEO/President, ODR-USA, Inc. "Effective leaders require courage, compassion, and initiative. O'Neill's systems-based coaching serves as a guide for both coaches and executives to better enable good decisions and good decision-makers." --Paul D. Purcell, president, Beacon Development Group

If you've been looking for sound direction on how to coach top executives, here it is. In Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart, Mary Beth O'Neill outlines the dynamic approach to coaching leaders that she's developed over the course of a twenty-year career. Her unique perspective and sage advice, backed by a specific four-phase methodology, gives you the means to successfully manage the coach-client relationship and effect dramatic changes that ensure the business outcomes leaders' want. It's a one-of-a-kind guide for executive coaches--both aspiring and established--that fills a long-standing gap in coaching literature. To read the preface from this book, click here.