Coaching Power: Leading With Coaching to Create Individual, Team, and Organizational Outperformance [Hardcover]

A powerful new approach to leadership tailor-made for the 21st century

In Coaching Power, a team of veteran executive coaches delivers a singularly insightful and original way of looking at leadership: as a form of coaching. The authors explain this new way of leading others and offer readers a set of tools, frameworks, and mindsets to take with them in their professions.

You'll discover how to succeed in a world that's evolving faster than ever, and how to navigate a workplace that can include as many as five unique generations, each of which demand a different style of leadership.

Coaching Power shows you:

• The fundamentals of coaching, including listening, questioning, and intuition
• How to create and enhance high performance teams, and how to have courageous conversations
• When it's time to bring in an external coach and what to look for to ensure the right fit

Perfect for managers, executives, directors, and other business leaders, Coaching Power is also a can't-miss resource for entrepreneurs and founders seeking a powerful new way to lead others through challenging circumstances.

Preface xv

Chapter 1 Let Us Introduce Ourselves 1

Chapter 2 Coaching Power 5

Chapter 3 Fundamentals First: Leadership in Combination with Coaching 13

Chapter 4 What People Want from Work 23

Chapter 5 Coaching Fundamentals 29

Chapter 6 The Magic of Storytelling: Emotional Leadership 45

Chapter 7 Beliefs and How They Influence Leadership Styles 57

Chapter 8 How Your Life Story IS Your Life Until Challenged 69

Chapter 9 Using Intuition as a Coach 79