Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide Others

by Daniel White

"Coaching Leaders" is written for coaches who are in the challenging position of working with leaders and helping them excel as the top executives and managers in their organizations. The book is filled with illustrative examples from Daniel White's practice as a successful executive coach. His clients' stories reveal the human drama of becoming a leader and explore the courageous and fascinating accomplishments these individuals have achieved in order to grow professionally. These stories also clearly show how a skilled coach adjusts to meet an individual client's personality and targeted challenge. "Coaching Leaders" includes a wide variety of effective coaching concepts and the information needed to guide leaders and help them maintain the motivation to change; battle anxiety, fear, and resistance; and achieve emotional intelligence.

Genres: Leadership

336 pages, Hardcover

First published December 2, 2005

Reviews

[Juan Carlos · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book like many coaching texts is based on the author's good practices and clients´ stories. I do not know for certain how successful they are after receiving coaching. Modeling coaching is not always the best teaching practice in my experience because it just returns to the traditional way of transferring knowledge. White knows the limitations, so invest a lot of time in techniques that may help or not the coachee depending on his/her needs. We have to be sensitive to the fact that most people in leadership are not the common king of clients in executive coaching. Most of them are looking for answers not just for self-discovery. Their time is limited as well as their patients. Proactive and assertive leaders need a mix of coaching, mentoring and consulting. Nobody is actually answering that dilemma in most textbooks.