Coaching for Leadership

"Any dialogue that brings an executive closer to goal achievement in the real world truly succeeds at a strategic level."

"Today's successful executives must embrace self-development and learning."

"By becoming an effective coach, you can become a more credible leader and an active agent of change."

"A well-constructed executive coaching approach will ensure that attention is paid to strategic factors as well as to the more obvious process components that deliver the executive coaching."

"How much do you really care about the people you lead?"

"Mentoring from a partnership perspective entails four stages."

"Leaders?and those who coach them?have a duty to use power responsibly."

"Define coaching goals and roles that respond to needs."

"Increasing opportunities for coaching success may come by focusing on transition moments."

"Create strategies for managing your expectations, as well as those of your boss and your team."

"Coaching allows learning to be tailored to the leader."

"The most effective way to change our patterns is to commit to a coach whose job it is to hold us to a focus and a format that helps us retread."

"The PA would be a key learning partner, who would help individuals determine the best course of action in their current work situations."

"The model is to give three strengths (keepers) and three weaknesses (improvements) when analyzing performance and behavior."

"Counseling is effective when it results in people changing their perceptions, attitudes, and behavior to solve their problems and improve their lives."

"The leader must build a solid foundation of grammar, vocabulary, and syntax in the classroom, but at some point there is no substitute for becoming totally immersed in the language in a country in which is spoken."

"Diversity can play havoc with developmental processes such as coaching, mentoring, and sponsoring."