The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Coaching in Organizations Hardcover - 2015

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Organizations around the world are recognizing the importance of coaching that goes beyond the traditional "one coach, one executive" model. It turns out that coaching can be an effective way of developing talent and retaining high-potential employees at all levels of the hierarchy. And, at every level, the most important coaching conversations are often those that take place in hallways or over lunch meetings. To harness the power of internal coaching in a systematic way, human resources leaders need to develop coaching programs that promote individual and organizational learning while avoiding the practical, ethical, and political challenges that can arise in the process. Thankfully, there's no need to reinvent the wheel, because The CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations synthesizes coaching lessons and best practices from organizations of all types in over 130 countries.

Coaching, mentoring, and development are crucial to the health of any organization. As research from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has clearly shown, even the most innovative business strategies are next to useless without adequate leadership. From the point of view of human resources leaders, coaching programs can seem like one more task in an endlessly complex and often conflicting role. The CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations solves this problem deftly by taking an ecological approach and showing how the coaching program can be an integrated element in a comprehensive plan for organizational development.

This text addresses the culture of coaching and coaching programs from a big-picture perspective that will help orient human resources experts in their quest to assess the need for coaching and to create, manage, and evaluate coaching systems. The CCL Handbook also covers concrete, immediately useful advice on unique challenges like team coaching, cross-cultural coaching, ethical considerations, and coaching senior executives. An abundance of examples and a foundation in the CCL's experience with hundreds of thousands of leaders around the world make The CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations an excellent resource for sharing across the organization, enlisting leadership support, and building the case for implementing best practices. With this versatility, The CCL Handbook of Coaching in Organizations should help human resources in any organization drive long-term outcomes by embracing a robust coaching strategy.