Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158) and index.

Foreword / Marshall Goldsmith -- Coaching Has Come of Age -- Why Now? -- About the Book -- 1. Understanding the Coaching Field -- What Is Coaching? -- Purpose of Coaching -- Why? -- What Does Coaching Replace? -- Who Gets Coaching? -- Coaching Highlights -- 2. Importance of Culture and Leadership Support -- Culture Counts -- Get Leadership Support -- Why Is Coaching Different? -- Marketing Matters -- Coaching Highlights -- 3. linking Coaching to leadership Development, Talent Management, and Human Resource Practices -- Link to the Leadership Development Strategy -- Linking to the Talent Management Approach -- Linking to Leadership Development and Human Resources Personnel -- Coaching Highlights -- 4. Managing the Coaching Engagement -- Preparing the Executive for Coaching -- Prepare the Boss for Coaching -- Don't Underestimate Matching -- Watch for Stalls -- Find Mismatches and Fix Them Quickly -- Get Clear on Length and Frequency -- Activities in Coaching -- Know the Costs, but That's Not All -- Coaching Highlights -- 5. Toolbox: Instruments and Assessments -- Why Use Assessments? -- Gather Feedback -- Expanding the Toolbox -- Determining Instrument Policies -- How to Manage Tool Selection -- Coaching Highlights -- 6. Balancing Consistency and Flexibility -- Be Consistent -- or Not -- Add Consistency to Taste -- Coaching Highlights -- 7. Bringing Coaching Internal -- Consider the Opportunity -- Compare Internal to External Coaching -- Positives of Internal Coaching -- Challenges for Internal Coaches -- Leader-as-Coach -- Mentoring -- Debate Continues -- Coaching Highlights -- 8. Measuring Impact -- Start at Satisfaction with Coach -- Include Impact Metrics -- Ask the Boss to Assess -- Follow-up with Another 360 -- Measure Return-on-Investment -- Bottom Line -- Coaching Highlights -- 9. Art of Finding Qualified Coaches -- Qualifications -- Locating Coaches -- Screening Coaches -- Does Certification Matter? -- Coaching Highlights -- 10. Creating a World Class Coaching Community -- Why It Matters -- Stay Connected to the Pool -- Develop Coaching Talent -- Know How Coaches Tick -- Coaching Highlights -- 11. Life After Coaching -- Renegotiate the Relationship -- Boost the Fading Finish -- Internals Can Continue Support -- Beware of Dependencies -- Self-Coaching -- Keep the Measuring -- Coaching Highlights -- 12. future of Coaching -- Practice Standardization -- Results Focused -- New Forms of Coaching -- Regulation -- Coaching through Technology -- Industry Trends -- Closing Thoughts -- Coaching Highlights -- Coaching Program Design Checklist -- Afterword / Richard J. Leider.

"The field of executive coaching is growing at an astonishing rate. Corporations are increasingly turning to coaching as an intervention, as it offers leaders and managers both on-the-job learning and built-in follow-up. But how can you make the best use of coaching within your organization?" "Executive Coaching for Results helps this critical leadership development method come of age. This is not a "how-to-coach book" - there are already plenty of those - but rather a comprehensive guide on how to strategically use coaching to maximize development of talent and link the impact or coaching to bottom-line results." "Throughout, the authors provide numerous examples from major organizations such as Dell, Intel, Johnson and Johnson, and Sony. Offering practical learning. best practices, and illuminating case studies, this is the first definitive guide to the effective use of executive coaching in the corporate environment."--BOOK JACKET.

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