Executive Coaching: Resource Book 2000

By Bill Bergquist, Ken Merritt, Carl Ingram, and Victoria Ingram

• Enhance your professional development.
   
• Understand the traditions, models and basic skills of coaching.
   
• Apply coaching specialties: career planning, performance coaching and coaching by phone.
   
• Simplify coaching practice by providing reproducible masters of instruments, handouts and articles you can use with colleagues.
   
• Increase your effectiveness by identifying future trends and opportunities in coaching.

 

Contents

 

Section One 

An Introduction to Executive Coaching 

Chapter One 

The Tradition of Coaching 
1-1  The Conditions for Significant Executive Learning 
1-2  A Parable of Coaching 
1-3  Three Models of Executive Coaching 
1-4  Identifying and Solving a Problem 

Chapter Two 

The Basic Skills of Coaching 
2-1  Six Barriers to Effective Communication 
2-2  Freeing and Binding 
2-3  Understanding the Other Person 
2-4  Helping Trios 
2-5  Description of Feelings 

Chapter Three 

An Appreciative Framework for Coaching 
3-1  The Nature of an Appreciative Approach to Coaching 
3-2   Phases of an Appreciative Approach 
3-3  Appreciative Inquiry Questions 
3-4  Appreciative Inquiry Interview 
3-5  An Appreciative Approach to Adult Development 

Chapter Four 

4-1  The Initial Meeting 
4-2  Example of a Letter for Initial Meeting 
4-3  Executive Information Form 4-4 Executive Interview
       Schedule 
4-5 The Process of Coaching: A Two-Year Case Study; 

  Section Two 

The Basic Models of Coaching 

Chapter Five 

Reflective Coaching 
5-1  Reflective Leadership 
5-2  The Clearness Process 
5-3  The "Why" Game 
5-4  The "If" Game 
5-5  The Process of Refraining 
5-6  The Left and Right Hand Column Exercise 
5-7  The Critical Moment

Chapter Six 

Instrumented Coaching 
6-1 Organizational Culture Inventory 
6-2 Instrumented Coaching: A List of Resources

Chapter Seven 

Observational Coaching 
7-1  The Observational Coaching Process 
7-2  Executive Information Form 
7-3  Executive Assessment Questionnaire 
7-4  Executive Self-Assessment 
7-5  Executive's Predictions of Subordinate's/Superior's 
       Responses on EAQ 
7-6  Pre-Observation/Video Recording Information 
7-7 Information Review and Planning: Some Suggestions

Career Coaching 
8-1  A World of Choices: A Step-by-Step Guide 
8-2  Career Change: Picturing an "Ideal Day" 
8-3  Exploring Personal Work Heritage 

 

Chapter Nine 

9-1 Coaching By Telephone: Old Tech, New Touch

 

Chapter Ten 

The Future of Coaching 
10-1 Mechanistic vs. Organic Metaphors for Coaching 
10-2 Coaching Colleague as Co-Researcher