An indispensable wellspring of advice from the world’s foremost leadership experts
In Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World’s Greatest Coaches, a team of world-renowned executive coaches and leadership experts delivers a revolutionary collection of contributions from 52 of the globe’s leading management thinkers. Each curated piece explores a critical issue in leadership, covering topics like self-awareness, communication, interpersonal relationships, emotional intelligence, delegation, coaching, change management, transition management, execution, and career development.
Among the 50 stories included within, readers will find inspirational and practical advice based on real-world leaders who were forced to transform their company’s business model, their organization, or themselves to achieve success. Each concise, actionable chapter lets you be a fly on the wall of a successful leader demonstrating a solution to a commonly encountered leadership problem.
Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors also provides: - Thorough introductions to self-examination and self-awareness, including maximizing the impact of feedback and proven techniques to ensure your leadership measures up - Comprehensive explorations of communication and interpersonal relationship skills, including treatments of authenticity and cultural fluency - Practical discussions of emotional intelligence, including the management of out-of-control feelings and conflict management - In-depth examinations of change and transition management, including explorations of the first 100 days as a new leader and how to lead teams through crises
Perfect for managers, executives, and business leaders of all kinds, Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World’s Greatest Coaches will also earn a place in the libraries of the coaches, consultants, and other professionals who work with leaders in government, business, and the nonprofit sectors.
Table of Contents
Foreword: A CEO’s Journey through Coaching x
Aicha Evans with Mark Thompson
Acknowledgments xii
About the Editors xiii
Introduction xv
Part I Self-Insight 1
1 Great Leaders Are Confident, Connected, Committed, and Courageous 3
Peter Bregman
2 Six Interconnected Perspectives for Coaching 6
Philippe Rosinski
3 Dealing with Your Demons as a Startup Founder 10
Alisa Cohn
4 Crafting a Grow-Forward Development Pathway 12
Didem Tekay
5 In Pursuit of Identity and Inclusion 15
Priscilla Gill
6 Making the Most of Feedback 19
Scott Eblin
7 A Proven Technique to Ensure Your Leadership Measures Up 21
Lisa Ann Edwards
Part II Communication Skills 25
8 The Highs and Lows of Communication 27
Hortense Le Gentil
9 How to Develop the Authentic Leader in You 29
Nicole Heimann
10 The Culturally Fluent Leader: When Leading Across Differences, Your Style May Need to Change 32
Jane Hyun
Part III Interpersonal Relationships 35
11 The Five Basic Needs of Employees. How Leaders Can Recognize and Use Them 37
Christopher Rauen
12 Steve: The Smartest Guy in the Room 40
Philippe Grall
13 How Powerful Leaders Create Safety: View from Both Sides of the Desk 43
Carol Kauffman
14 How “Face” Can Help You Manage Up 46
Maya Hu-Chan
15 “The Payoff from Listening” 49
Frank Wagner
16 The Necessary Reckoning of Corporate America 52
Terry Jackson
Part IV Emotional Intelligence 55
17 Managing Our Out of Control Feelings 57
Jonathan Passmore
18 How to Deal with Deeper, Coaching-Resistant Behaviors 60
Ron Carucci
19 Coaching for Conflict Management 63
Gary Wang
20 The Cavalry Isn’t Coming 66
Caroline Stokes
Part V Empowering Others / Delegation 69
21 The Importance of Leadership Agility 71
Brenda Bence
22 Coaching Perfectionists 74
Sally Helgesen
23 Coaching an Executive Client Out of Micromanagement 77
Tom Kolditz
24 Establishing Overwhelming Presence as a Managing Director 79
Takahiro Honda
25 Letting Go: One Founder’s Journey From Doing to Dreaming 83
Magdalena Nowicka Mook
Part VI Coaching Others 87
26 Motivating Others to Learn and Change 89
Richard E. Boyatzis
27 The Leader as Coach 92
Lance Secretan
28 The Five Most Important Qualities in Coaching Your Employees: Anywhere in the World 96
Howard J. Morgan & Ben Croft
29 The S Curve of Learning 99
Whitney Johnson
Part VII Managing Change 103
30 Leading in Times of Change 105
Atchara Juicharern
31 Coaching the Team Leader 108
Peter Hawkins
32 Coaching and Culture Transformation for Sustainable Results 111
Peter Chee & Aaron Ngui
33 Agile Servant Leadership Is Not Fluffy 114
Jennifer Paylor
34 Leading Teams through Crisis 117
Karen Yanqun Wu
35 Letting Go of Certainty 121
David Clutterbuck
Part VIII Transition Management 125
36 Your First Hundred Days 127
Abdallah Aljurf
37 Managing Self Doubt After a Promotion 130
Nihar Chhaya
38 Self as Leader 133
Pamela McLean
39 Executive Transition 136
Cathleen Wu
Part IX Execution 139
40 Objectives and Key Results 141
Patti P. Phillips
41 Identifying and Approaching Different Types of Problems 145
Nankhonde Kasonde-van den Broek
42 A Leader’s Courage for a Team’s Success 148
Oleg Konovalov
43 The Pause for Progress 151
Bill Carrier
44 There Is No Such Thing as Work/Life Balance 154
Brian O. Underhill
45 The Leadership Success Definition Should Include Impact (and Maybe ROI) 157
Jack J. Phillips
Part X Career Development 161
46 From C-Suite to CEO: How to Get Promoted & Survive the Leap 163
Mark C. Thompson
47 Personal Leadership Brand: How to Take Control of How You “Show Up’’ 166
Mongezi C. Makhalima
48 Decision-Making - Cutting Through the Fog of Shoulds and Fears 169
Marcia Reynolds
49 Future-Proof Yourself for Complex, Disruptive Times: Learning Faster Than the Pace of Change 172
David B. Peterson
50 How to Select a Coach 175
CB Bowman-Ottomanelli
Further Resources 179
Your Personal Board of Directors: Contributor Biographies 180
Index 197
