On Becoming a Leadership Coach: A Holistic Approach to Coaching Excellence

Written by experienced thought leaders and coach teachers, this is the most comprehensive survey of individual and team coaching skills I've read. A great balance of breadth and depth. My sense is that emerging leaders, and very seasoned leaders or coaches will find more than one gold nugget among the pages.As books with multiple authors go, this is the best I've read: the editing and narrative is consistent, and the chapters flow and transition gracefully. On Becoming a Leadership Coach reads well cover-to-cover, and the chapters stand alone and can be revisited as specific concerns or interest arise in you.Though I enjoyed all of the sections, I should share some stand-outs: * the history of coaching was the most thorough and succinct I've read. The profile of coaching has really been raised on the last several years among managers and leaders, but there are still many people who would benefit from this work that are not aware of its existence. There are so many great passages that could be shared with leaders that would help them locate themselves, and see how coaching might give them leverage to reach their next stretch goal. * the exploration of what leadership is, the survey of this vast landscape, and no clear request (or insist) to subscribe to a single definition or methodology. Though I am not a Georgetown Certified Leadership Coach, their approach to "going meta" on coach training is itself one of the desired outcomes of coaching: taking multiple perspectives. The examples offered and rich and useful, and the invitation is "there is so much more: explore" * the value of using Somatics in your coaching, weaved through several chapters. * insights about using team coaching.I have added this to my list of resources for coaches and leaders, and look forward to sharing it for years to come.

A powerful compilation of many of the central insights of coaching training, with Joseph Campbell's observation at the center (quoted by Chris Wahl). "I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive." Many of the teachers and coaches beloved by Georgetown Leadership Coaching program are here front and center, offering their thinking paths, personal stories, and professional wisdom. You can't go wrong. Buy it.

I've just begun reading this book, and from page 1 it has shown evidence of being worth its weight in gold. The style of writing employed by the authors (all of whom are relative experts in the coaching field) enables the comprehension of very abstract and intricate ideas. Very satisfied.

I found this book to be excellent. I deeply appreciated the variety of authors and was able to identify some with whom I intend a personal follow-up. Christine and her colleagues provided a depth perspective on leadership coaching, a quality often sought but not always found in books of this nature.

This is an excellent book by a group do wonderful coaches. The GW program is a good program and Clarice Scriber was my professional coach and she was wonderful.

This is a solid overview of coaching practice and theory, but it reads much better than "overview" implies. I enjoyed most of the chapters.