Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their ChallengesPraise for Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart "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." "Mary Beth O'Neill's executive coaching gave me the tools and clarity to become a far more effective leader and change agent. The bottom line was that we succeeded with a monumental organizational turnaround that had seemed impossible to accomplish." "O'Neill writes in a way that allows you to see this experienced coach in action. What a wonderful way to learn!" "Mary Beth brings a keen business focus to coaching by not just contributing insights but through helping me and my team gain the insights that we need to solve our own problems. She has the ability to see through the sometimes chaotic dialogue and personalities in order to help a team focus on the real issues and dynamics that can impede organizations from achieving their goals." "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." "With Mary Beth O'Neill's coaching, I've become the kind of leader who balances both the needs to get results and to develop great working relationships. Since I started working with her, I've won accolades as the Top Innovator for my company, and as Professional of the Year for my industry. More important, I've been able to scope my job in a way that allows me to learn and contribute at the same time, all the while delivering great results to the bottom line." |
Contents
Chapter Seven Highlights | |
Evaluate the Clients Effectiveness | |
Evaluate the Coachs Effectiveness | |
Debrief at the End of a Coaching Engagement | |
The Dilemmas | |
The Three Key Factors Methodology | |
What It Takes to Get There | |
Clarify the Connection | |
SelfDifferentiation | |
Strengthen Your Presence | |
Parallel Journeys of Executive and Coach | |
The Interactional Force Field | |
Seeing the Force Field | |
The Effect of Anxiety in the Workplace | |
The Leaders Challenge | |
Whose Stress Is This Anyway? | |
Signs That Triangles Are Distracting Leaders | |
Enter the Coach | |
Shall We Dance? | |
The Coachs Challenge | |
Chapter Three Highlights | |
The Rescue Model and the Client Responsibility Model of Coaching | |
Coaching from the Middle | |
Chapter Four Highlights | |
The Roots of the Coaching Phases | |
Join with the Client | |
Test the Clients Ability to Own His Part of the Issue | |
Take a Systems View of Your Clients Issue | |
Encourage the Client to Set Measurable Goals | |
Involve the Boss | |
A Word About Assessment Tools | |
Chapter Five Highlights | |
Move the Client to Specifics | |
Address Issues in Change Management and Role Clarity | |
Help the Client Identify Her Side of the Pattern | |
Help the Client Plan for Resistance | |
Chapter Six Highlights | |
BehindtheScenes Coaching of the Client | |
Observation of the Client with Her Direct Reports | |
LiveAction Coaching of Just the Client When the Client Is with Her Direct Reports | |
Setting the Stage for and Using the LiveAction Coaching Method | |
LiveAction Coaching Tasks | |
StepbyStep Process | |
Chapter Nine Highlights | |
Concerns About Making the Transition | |
Guidelines for the Conversation | |
Loyal Resistance | |
Pace Yourself | |
Role Clarity | |
Articulate Expectations and Ensure the Employee Commits to Them | |
Coach and Develop the Employee to Meet Expectations | |
Coaching Phases for the Boss Who Coaches | |
Chapter Eleven Highlights | |
Contracting | |
LiveAction Coaching | |
Contracting | |
Planning | |
Contracting | |
Planning | |
The Clients Results | |
Combining Coaching and Consulting | |
Consultant Competencies | |
Chapter Two | |
Chapter Five | |
Chapter Nine | |
Appendix D | |
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Other editions - View all
Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging ... Mary Beth A. O'Neill No preview available - 2011 |
Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging ... Mary Beth A. O'Neill No preview available - 2007 |