Synopsis
Secrets of a Leadership Coach is a premium leadership training series that brings the wisdom of America's top CEO coach to every employee and manager. It will result in better leadership, personal interactions, and team-building, and is for anyone who wants to improve personal and communication skills. It contains four main sections: Executive Coaching Techniques, Developing Ourselves as Leaders, Developing Others, and Developing a Team. The package includes a fifth section in a workbook style that leads you interactively in the creation of your own action plan. Upon the completion of this series, you will be able to describe the coaching and feedback process, define the feedforward process, identify some typical behaviors of leaders that need to be changed, analyze how traditional feedback is different, recognize classic challenges in helping successful people change, explain why leaders don't always complete the coaching process after starting it, list the 3 steps to encourage feedback, demonstrate how to thank people for their feedback, write the 3 guidelines for responding to feedback, describe how to involve other people in helping one change, discuss the follow-up process, recognize when behavioral coaching will work, assess when behavioral coaching will not work, list the steps in the coaching process, describe how to involve key stakeholders, select supportive coaches, use an experiential activity for feedforward, perform follow-up and mini-survey, identify why team building is important, analyze the steps in the team-building process, illustrate examples of team areas for behavioral change, describe individual areas for behavioral change, and describe communication methods for follow-up. Those readers who wish to have an accompanying program with video and interactivity should also purchase the CD version.
About the Author
MARSHALL GOLDSMITH is one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve positive, measurable change in behavior: for themselves, their people, and their teams. Marshall has been ranked in the Wall Street Journal as one of the "Top 10" consultants in the field of executive development. His work has received national recognition from the Institute for Management Studies, the American Management Association, the American Society for Training and Development and the Human Resource Planning Society. His coaching process has been positively described in both the New York Times and the Financial Times. Marshall is a managing partner of A4SL, the Alliance for Strategic Leadership, a consulting organization that includes over 100 top consultants in the field of leadership development. He is also the co-founder of the Financial Times Knowledge Dialogue, a videoconference network that connects executives with thought leaders. The FTKD enables his clients to discuss their unique issues with the world's greatest thinkers. He has a Ph.D. from UCLA. He is on the faculty of the global executive education program for Dartmouth and Oxford (UK) Universities. Marshall is a partner with Duke Corporate Education in the development of their personal learning practice. He is a member of the Board of the Peter Drucker Foundation. Marshall is one of a select few consultants who has been asked to work with over 50 major CEOs. His clients have included corporations, such as: 3M, Accenture, American Express, AHP, Aventis, Boeing, CalPERS, Chase Bank, GE, General Mills, Glaxo SmithKline, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, KPMG, McKinsey, Motorola, Pitney Bowes, Southern Company, Sun Microsystems, Thomson, UBS, and Weyerhaeuser. He has helped to implement leadership development processes that have impacted over one million people. Aside from his corporate work, Marshall has completed substantial volunteer projects for organizations such as: the Urban League; Save the Children; the Institute for East West Studies; the Girl Scouts; and the International, Canadian and American Red Cross (where he was a "National Volunteer of the Year"). Marshall's twelve recent books include: The Leader of the Future (a Business Week "Top 15" best-seller), Learning Journeys and Coaching for Leadership. The Leadership Investment won the American Library Association's Choice award as an "Outstanding Academic Business Book" of 2001. Amazon.com has ranked five of his books as the #1 best sellers in their field. CHRIS COFFEY received a B.S. degree in marketing and a minor in philosophy. After graduation, he signed on with the U.S. Navy. After many years acting and directing, he began to do business consulting in 1984 and led "The Excellent Manager Workshop" for middle managers and above at IBM, Warner Lambert, Citibank, Apple and many other fortune 500 companies. Twice a year he teaches in the UCLA Technical Manager program, where he teaches scientists from government labs: Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, and Los Alamos. He has taught management and leadership at Gonzaga University in Florence, Italy. He is a member of the Alliance for Strategic Leadership. M. DANIEL FARB, M.D., CEO of UniversityOfHealthCare and UniversityOfBusiness, is a leader in the field of interactive management and healthcare e-learning. He received a BA in English Literature from Yale (where he set an academic record and studied with writers like Robert Penn Warren), an M.D. from Boston University, a degree in Executive Management from the Anderson School of Business at UCLA, and is currently working on a degree at UCLA in International Trade. He is a practicing ophthalmologist. He also has received two patents in ophthalmology and is working on others, has worked with the World Health Organization in Geneva and the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C. He has written scientific and popular articles, and has worked as a newspaper reporter. He helped Dr. Robbins edit one of the editions of
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