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The Coaching Organization
A Strategy for Developing Leaders
- James M. Hunt - Babson College, USA
- Joseph R. Weintraub - Babson College, USA
September 2006 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
The Coaching Organization provides an organizational perspective on how coaching can become part of an organization's culture. The book offers "best practices" that will help organizations deploy developmental coaching on a large scale to drive leadership and employee effectiveness. The popularity of coaching in organizations is enormous. However, coaching initiatives are often deployed on an ad hoc and unmanaged basis and as such often yield disappointing results. The Coaching Organization provides a guide for the strategic management of coaching initiatives, including executive coaching, internal coaching, coaching by managers and peer coaching, so as to maximize their impact and value. Using case studies from organizations such as Whirlpool, Wachovia, Children's Hospital Boston and Citizens Financial Group, as well as entrepreneurial ventures the authors, respected academics in the fields of employee and leadership development, describe how both large and small organizations leverage relationship based, on the job learning and offer insights that executives, line managers, human resource and organizational effectiveness professionals as well students will find actionable.
1. The Coaching Organization?
2. An Overview of Developmental Coaching
3. The Coaching Organization Assessment
4. A Strategic Approach to Coaching
5. Driving Strategic Transformation Through Executive Coaching at Whirlpool
6. Building and Leading a Coaching Capacity
7. The Internal Coaching Capability
8. The ELP Internal Coaching Program at Wachovia Corporation
9. Building a Coaching Manager Capability
10. The Coaching Manager in Nursing
11. Peer Coaching at Citizen’s Financial Group (CFG)
Concluding Remarks: The Frontiers of the Coaching Organization
References
Appendix A: The Competencies of the Expert Executive Coach
Appendix B: The Coaching Manager Self-Assessment
About the Authors
About the Contributors
"In this era of the search for low-cost, high-impact organizational improvement, The Coaching Organization is a real godsend. In one well-written reference you have everything you and your organization need to know about creating learning through on of the most available resources: relationships. This is an excellent source for helping people master the skills of coaching, so that your organization can be a place where leaders grow leaders. If you're serious about improving organizational effectiveness, you and many of your colleagues need to read this book."
Boston University School of Management
