The Masterful Coaching, Book - Hardcover

Hargrove, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0893842818 ISBN 13: 9780893842819

Publisher: Pfeiffer, 1995

Synopsis

Bring out the power within your organization! This groundbreaking book outlines a model of coaching-style management that will help you become a masterful coach. It will help you gain commitment; release creativity; and help people learn, grow, and perform to their maximum ability. Shows you how to:

• Transform the way people think and work together
• Encourage productive contributions from individuals and groups
• Expand people's capacity to achieve goals and realize change . . . and more!

This personal guidebook offers specific strategies for transforming yourself into a facilitative leader, coach, and mentor. You'll also discover guiding ideas, tools, and methods to help you achieve desired results by bringing about profound changes in thinking and behavior with individuals and groups.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Masterful Coaching

"What is Masterful Coaching?" asks Robert Hargrove. "Masterful coaching is about nothing but co-creating an Impossible Future with someone—from a good leader to great one, from a third world nation to a first, from industry follower to industry game changer."

Says Hargrove, "Coaching is the fastest, most powerful way to develop leaders at all levels." Ask people "'What is impossible that you are going to do today?' versus 'How are we going to get our list of homogenized corporate leadership competencies into you?'"

As people stretch to reach goals, they realize that what got them here as a leader isn't going to get them there. Masterful coaching is about transformational learning, not transactional techniques.

When the first edition of Masterful Coaching was published, it quickly became the standard resource for anyone who was a coach, considering becoming a coach, or curious about being an extraordinary coach. In this completely revised third edition of his groundbreaking book, Hargrove presents his profound insights into the journey of becoming a masterful coach along with guiding ideas, tools, and methods.

You will gain the confidence and skills needed to master one-year coaching engagements with Hargrove's 12 Catalytic Coaching Conversations.

This new edition will show you how to:

• Stand in people's greatness, even when they fall from it

• Coach executives to realize an Impossible Future and Transformational Change

• Co-create a winning game plan and jump start it with catalytic breakthrough projects

• Develop extraordinary leaders in the process of producing extraordinary results

• Provide people the ultimate self-development and growth experience

• Implement the "secrets" of worldclass coaches in building a super successful coaching practice

From the Back Cover:

Praise for the prior editions of Masterful Coaching

"Robert Hargrove's Masterful Coaching sets the context of the coach as steward rather than mere teacher, a critical agent in transforming organizational cultures and developing the skills and capabilities necessary for new cultures to be sustained."
—Peter Senge, author, The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization

"Masterful Coaching will empower you to stand for an Impossible Future while acting boldly in the present to make it a reality."
—Richard W. Severance, president, Conoco, North American Downstream

"Masterful Coaching brings clarity, power, and velocity to producing extraordinary leaders and extraordinary results."
—Tom Kaiser, president, Zurich Financial Services

"The author's five-step 'transformational' coaching model has been field-tested by thousands of managers worldwide."
—Accounting Today

"Finally, a book that helps release people's collective aspirations—almost nonexistent in today's corporate environment—and links them to business goals. A treasure trove of 'take-action' tools!"
—Melanie Warren, vice-president, Fidelity Investments

"This is a great hands-on book . . . . Hargrove explains how to coach a person through one frame of reference (paradigm) to another or to coach groups of individuals into a cohesive, collaborative team."
—Net Results

"Masterful Coaching provides thorough descriptions of the characteristics of a coach and thoughtful insights about becoming an effective coach."
—Canadian HR Reporter

"If you are looking for some techniques to help your employees creatively meet your customers' needs, this is a must read."
—The Business Resource

About this edition

• Publisher: Pfeiffer
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0893842818
• ISBN 13: 9780893842819
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320