Unleashed! Expecting Greatness and Other Secrets of Coaching for Exceptional Performance

by Gregg Thompson

Bluepoint Leadership Development has been designing and delivering world class leadership education, training and coaching programs for over 20 years. Now their incredible, business-transforming approach is available in this highly-accessible new book. "Unleashed" is certain to transform how managers, executives, human resource professionals and organizations approach and practice leadership.Readers of this inspirational work will discover how to:

•Understand what High Performance Coaching is (and is not!)

•Identify the qualities of an effective Leader Coach

•Recognize their strengths as a coach and what is required in the coaching role

•Better understand the coaching process

•Identify their own self development work and personal growth curve

•Better understand current leadership challenges

•Search for opportunities to coach those they manage and lead for performanc

•Participate in the personal growth of others while developing high performance coaching skills

Gregg Thompson’s revolutionary approach incorporates the very best processes and practices employed by professional coaches and draws upon his extensive experience in experiential leadership development. Dare yourself and your employees to engage in bold new performance-changing relationships!

Genres: Leadership

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 28, 2007

About the author

Gregg Thompson is a keynote speaker, author and executive leadership coach.

As a much-in-demand speaker, Gregg leads his audiences on interactive, highly-engaging learning journeys that are both educational and entertaining. He dares audiences to abandon many of their closest-held beliefs about leadership and to explore new ways of seeing, relating to and influencing others. He confronts audiences with their own biases, judgments and attitudes, and challenges them to replace these with fresh new perspectives and practices. He vividly demonstrates how leaders can make a major shift in their personal impact and use their natural strengths to master the art of leadership. Gregg is the author of The Master Coach written for leaders who understand the impact of coaching on performance and career acceleration. The book is an invitation to all leaders who want to make a significant shift in their attitudes, values and behaviors and become more coach-like in all of their daily interactions and conversations. The Master Coach forms the basis for the Leader As Coach workshop, which is used to equip thousands of leaders around the world with potent, immediately-usable coaching skills.

Gregg is President of Bluepoint Leadership Development, one of the finest leadership training and coaching companies in the world today. He personally coaches many of the most successful executives in the Fortune 100 companies and has worked in 40 countries in nearly every major industry. He has a passion for coaching and leadership that is unmatched, and his multimedia Keynote Workshops are guaranteed to be provocative, inspiring and memorable.

Gregg also has extensive business leadership experience having held senior executive roles in energy, environmental engineering, software development, technology and construction industries. He holds a Master of Science degree in Organization Development from Pepperdine University and a diploma in Technical Management from the British Columbia Institute of Technology.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

I try and read professional development books from time to time on my own. I manage a team so many of them center around management a coaching. I just had a really hard time getting anything from this one. I kind of felt like the underlying tone was in order to coach someone you yourself had to already be perfect. Well, I am where to tell you, I’m not, and I have never worked for a perfect boss. Maybe that wasn’t the intent but it was how I perceived the book. There were some great coaching questions in there that I’ll use but other than that I didn’t love this.

[Edith · Rating 5 out of 5]

A practical guidebook for developing an effective coaching relationship and using that to encourage the Talent to develop his/her potential. Hopeful and points all involved to being accountable and holding accountable.

[Sampurna Ray · Rating 4 out of 5]

This came as a recommendation from a wonderful leader at my workplace. Found a remarkably interesting chapter on the Adult, Parent and Child ego states that people interact with each other from. I would say this is worth a read for leaders who intend to coach others through expecting great things from them and keeping noble intentions. 4 stars for the ideas.