Building the Core Competencies of Change: A Guide to Coaching in Organizations

How do you build the capacity for change in yourselves and your organizations? What is coaching powerfully, and how does it teach people to grow and learn? How do you build coaching programs aligned with organizational strategy?

With examples of coaching programs from around the world, Building the Core Competencies of Change

• exposes the underlying emotions, values, and mindsets that can thwart or empower change;
• explains the techniques of coaching that build the competencies for growth and change;
• provides examples of organizations that catalyzed change with the use of strategic coaching programs; and
• outlines the coaching types, tools, and models used to build core competencies of change in individuals, teams, and whole organizations.

SANDRA L. STEWART is an executive coach and consultant with experience in hundreds of for-profit, nonprofit, and government organizations with her company, SLS Coaching & Consulting. She has taught leadership development at the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business and is a coaching instructor for ICF-accredited coach training programs at American University. She reviews ethics cases around the world as a member of the International Coaching Federation Independent Review Board. She received her BA from Colgate University and an MBA from Columbia University Business School. She worked for international companies including Johnson & Johnson and Ferrero N.A., where she managed new products. She has two children and three stepchildren and lives with her husband in Washington, DC.