The process of executive coaching is a formal engagement in which executive coaches work with their clients in a series of confidential and dynamic meetings designed to establish and achieve clear goals. Most coaching “certification” programs teach a 4-step process of assessment that encompasses assessment, goal setting, accomplishing goals, and final review.

Peer coaching is an often-overlooked but vital tool for bringing personal and professional development to employees. In “Peer Coaching: The Wave of the Future,” Shana Montesol Johnson details the ins and outs of this low-cost, high-impact, customizable training option, explaining:· what peer coaching is and its various forms· potential benefits and pitfalls as well as how to address them· methods to set up successful peer coaching · ways to test peer coaching before launching a full program.

As a manager, you are an engine— you power forward movement. Your company has handed you a piece of the business, and your job is to help that department, division, location, or operating group manifest its goals. Your prime directive is to make good things happen. Whoa! Cool! Yikes! This is a significant burden and privilege, and I encourage you to feel the weight of it. Your work is important. So how should you go about approaching your role as the engine for a part of the business?

Management is the engine that drives our corporations. It ensures— or prevents—the daily completion of work and overall strategic implementation. This may sound very things oriented, but make no mistake; management is a people-driven job. Our organizations need managers who bring individuals and teams together such that they do their best work in the service of company goals.

Overview:There are few things in this world that I know for sure, but this is one: Our ability to hire the right people for our job openings will significantly affect everything else we do as managers. Hiring right is critical. A strong team will give us the time and flexibility to focus on high-impact work. It’s important to be very picky when hiring, and we don’t want to settle for someone who’s not the right fit for the position.

This adaptable sample agenda can guide conversations during this first meeting.

Embrace the Power of Executive CoachingAs businesses become more complex, they tend to lean on their high performers to fend off competitors, innovate, and pivot to unexplored markets. But who do these executives and leaders turn to when they need to refine their own skills?Executive coaches. In The Art of Executive Coaching, Dr. Nadine Greiner takes you behind the scenes with nine stories of executive coach Alice Well and her clients. Follow along as she lets you in on the secrets, tips, and tricks to unlocking the transformative performance results leaders need...

Unleash Hidden Potential With Coaching Conversations. Coaching is not just for coaches. When everybody within an organization learns and develops coaching skills, its culture begins to change. The exchange of meaningful and actionable feedback becomes the norm and not something that only occurs during annual performance appraisals. The willingness to share insights and ideas becomes accepted and expected at all levels—up, down, and across.Virginia Bianco-Mathis and Lisa Nabors believe everyone in an organization can master a new language—dialogue—and use it in...

Leaders are often aware of the benefits of coaching, but they may wonder how to expand individual coaching successes across their entire organization. This issue of TD at Work describes the total systems approach that is needed to create a culture where everyone is empowered to participate in coaching. In "Building a Coaching Organization," you will find:

Great coaching makes a world of difference. Coaching is one of the quickest and most effective ways to advance the success of an organization. Yet it remains underused and misunderstood, and the term is often used synonymously with corrective counseling, encouragement, or the many helpful tactics in between.In Coaching Basics you’ll discover a precise coaching framework along with insights from 40 experienced coaches, including Barry Goldberg and Marshall Goldsmith. This refreshed edition also hones in on what it takes to build influencing skills and introduces...

Mentoring and coaching are words often used when discussing employee development, but they support different facets of the workspace. Mentoring centers around the individual, whereas coaching is about a task or performance; coaching is short term, whereas mentoring is a longer-term relationship. This collection presents practical job aids from popular TD at Work and Infoline issues that support new coaching and mentoring initiatives from launch through evaluation. You’ll learn what it takes to have effective coaching conversations, how to structure a mentoring...

According to the International Coaching Federation, in 2012 there were an estimated 47,500 professional coaches worldwide. Once perceived as an exclusive perk meant to address the development needs of senior executives and emerging leaders, coaching is now offered to employees at various stages of their careers. It is also interesting to note that more often coaching is being administered by internal coaches.  This issue of TD at Work will:  • Define internal coaching and explain how it is unique. • Explain the benefits of internal coaching for coach, coachee,...

How can you develop an effective means for measuring return on investment (ROI) in coaching? With its two dedicated sections, Measuring the Success of Coaching discusses both the principles behind measuring ROI in coaching (including specific protocols for objectively measuring ROI in coaching programs), as well as delivering a broad array of pragmatic, applicable case studies from a range of organizations. Some of the specific topics covered in Measuring the Success of Coaching include: Measuring the Success of Coaching offers a clear, complete, and detailed...

Coaching Employee Engagement Training is written for managers and other leaders who, regardless of their level of experience, wish to facilitate and support the development of truly engaged employees within their organization. Utilizing clear, focused suggestions on improving employee coaching skills, Coaching Employee Engagement Training focuses on the fundamentals of successful employee coaching, and delivers powerful, pragmatic lessons within an easy-to-use, highly efficient workbook format. With its comprehensive approach to teaching employee coaching,...

This Infoline  discusses the power and important role peer coaching can play within an organization. This issue begins with a brief history of peer coaching, describes various peer coaching models, provides guidance on how to implement those models, and outlines the many benefits of peer coaching.

This is most decidedly not just another book about generational differences, nor is it yet another "how to coach" book. Coaching Up and Down the Generations looks at the key processes of transferring knowledge, developing teams, and collaborating, and examines how different age groups can better learn from one another and even experience major breakthroughs that will improve their progress—despite disparate backgrounds. You'll find a thorough examination of key issues in inter-generational coaching situations, including what constitutes great coaching, at any age...

Coaching is a hot buzzword in today's hectic business world, and coaching skills are fast becoming essential for anyone who wants to help develop others in the workplace. If you are intrigued by the potential of coaching and want to learn more about promoting growth and learning on the job, you can use 10 Steps to Successful Coaching as a primer to learn and apply basic coaching skills, or to initiate a formal employee coaching program in your organization. The 10 steps include self-preparation for the coaching process, advice about choosing someone to coach, and...

Written by a team of three behavioral practitioners, Organizational Coaching is based on the best practices of a wide range of private sector, government, and nonprofit organizations. The authors provide a complete systems approach to enable any workplace learning professional to develop an integrated coaching model. Within the book's pages, you’ll find a thorough background in coaching theory combined with organizational and adult learning theory, a full range of tools to help you design and implement a coaching program, and an outline of a fluid coaching...

You want to help your organization move forward. That's why you became a trainer. But there is much more you can do! Do you connect well with people? Do you understand the overall mission and vision of your organization? If so, you're a prime person to conduct just-in-time coaching sessions. Just-in-time coaching addresses specific, current needs. And while you don't need the targeted career training that formal coaches need, you do need to establish a cadre of core skills. That's where this issue of Infoline comes in. This Infoline offers you a direct path to...

Do you want to significantly improve the behavior and skills of an individual or organization? This issue will show you how to drive performance development by making it a fundamental part of your organization's culture. A five-step method ensures your efforts move in the right direction and produce results. Included are tools for mapping coaching events, assessing the learning needs of coaches, and a coaching evaluation questionnaire.