Leadership Coaching: Working with Leaders to Develop Elite Performance

by Jonathan Passmore (Editor)

Overview

Published with the Association for Coaching, this revised edition of the highly-respected Leadership Coaching will enhance and extend your coaching practice. It draws on evidence-based thinking and the writing of some of the world's top leadership thinkers and coaching practitioners to present a start-of-the-art coverage of leadership models and how to use them effectively to benefit your coaching relationships. Leaders face many challenges, and this book will challenge you to adapt your coaching approach to suit your clients' needs. Its coverage ranges from newer topics such as strengths focused leadership and conversational leadership to more tried-and-tested frameworks such as Porter's strategy model and Goleman's model of leadership styles. It also incorporates non-Western perspectives from Asia and Africa and considers multinational topics like coaching global boards.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749473297
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	07/28/2015
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Jonathan Passmore is well known for editing the Association for Coaching series, as well as for other titles in leadership and organisational psychology. He is an occupational psychologist with an international reputation, having spoken at conferences across the world from Harvard University, to Denmark, South Africa and Israel. He is also the Series Editor for the Wiley Blackwell Industrial Psychology series and has authored/co-authored Top Business Psychology Models, AI for Change Management and The Facebook Manager over the last four years. In 2010, Jonathan was awarded the AC Global Coaching Award for his contribution to practice and research. He divides his time between academia, where he works as a professor of psychology at the University of East London, and business, where he works as a practicing psychologist.

Table of Contents

** Chapter - 01: Leadership coaching; ** Chapter - 02: Coaching for authentic leadership; ** Chapter - 03: The integrated leadership model; ** Chapter - 04: Coaching for emotionally intelligent and inspiring leadership; ** Chapter - 05: The Leadership Radar™; ** Chapter - 06: An Asian perspective on leadership coaching: Sun Tzu and The Art of War; ** Chapter - 07: Coaching for Icarus leadership: helping leaders who can potentially derail; ** Chapter - 08: Coaching for integral leadership; ** Chapter - 09: Coaching political leaders; ** Chapter - 10: Leadership coaching with feedforward; ** Chapter - 11: Coaching from a systems perspective; ** Chapter - 12: Coaching for transactional and transformational leadership; ** Chapter - 13: Coaching for leadership style; ** Chapter - 14: Strategy coaching; ** Chapter - 15: Coaching global top teams; ** Chapter - 16: Coaching using leadership myths and stories: an African perspective; ** Chapter - 17: Coaching for conversational leadership; ** Chapter - 18: Coaching for team leadership: using the Belbin ‘team roles’ model; ** Chapter - 19: Coaching for strength-based leadership; ** Chapter - 20: Coaching with complexity-informed leadership

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

This book is filled with useful models, insights and profound thinking that can serve any serious coach." — W Timothy Gallwey, author of The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Work and The Inner Game of Stress 

"This book contains the latest thinking on coaching and leadership. The chapters are well researched and provide practical advice. It is a must read book for anyone involved in coaching." — Professor Binna Kandola OBE 

"Psychologists, coaches, and consultants from around the world describe 15 popular and less-well known leadership coaching models. In addition to the Western view of leadership, a few of the models draw on other traditions, such as ancient Asian philosophers and African myths. Some models explored include authentic leadership, coaching for emotionally intelligent leadership, coaching political leaders, transformational leadership, and coaching global teams. Supporting research is reviewed for each model, and each chapter includes case studies." — Book News Inc.

Editorial Reviews

"This book is filled with useful models, insights and profound thinking that can serve any serious coach."

W Timothy Gallwey

"This book contains the latest thinking in coaching and leadership.  The chapters are well researched and provide practical advice.  It is a must-read for anyone involved in coaching."

Professor - Binna Kandola OBE

"This book is filled with useful models, insights and profound thinking that can serve any serious coaches."

Author - W. Timothy Gallwey

"This book contains the latest thinking on coaching and leadership. The chapters are well researched and provide practical advice. It is a must-read for anyone involved in coaching."

Professor Binna Kandola OBE

"This book is filled with useful models, insights and profound thinking that can serve any serious coach." —W Timothy Gallwey, author of The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Work and The Inner Game of Stress 

"This book contains the latest thinking on coaching and leadership. The chapters are well researched and provide practical advice. It is a must read book for anyone involved in coaching." —Professor Binna Kandola OBE 

"Psychologists, coaches, and consultants from around the world describe 15 popular and less-well known leadership coaching models. In addition to the Western view of leadership, a few of the models draw on other traditions, such as ancient Asian philosophers and African myths. Some models explored include authentic leadership, coaching for emotionally intelligent leadership, coaching political leaders, transformational leadership, and coaching global teams. Supporting research is reviewed for each model, and each chapter includes case studies." —Book News, Inc.

From the Publisher