Anna Marie Valerio, Robert J. Lee "Executive Coaching: A Guide for the HR Professional "
Pfeiffer | December 29, 2004 | ISBN:0787973017 | 240 pages | PDF | 1,6 Mb
Executive Coaching is a “consumer’s guide” for HR professionals and executives who want to be good clients and savvy consumers of coaching services. Step by step, the book defines what coaching is, who uses it, when, and why. In this comprehensive resource the authors outline the entire coaching process, include key points on the readiness for coaching, and clients’ first-hand accounts of their coaching experiences. Valerio and Lee describe the roles of the HR professional, the client, the boss, and the coach and how all work together in order to achieve a successful coaching engagement.
Purpose
The purpose of this book is to help human resource professionals and their clients become more savvy consumers of coaching services. With the wide array of coaching services now available in the marketplace, HR professionals need information to allow them to sort through options, ask discerning questions, and understand what constitutes successful coaching engagements.
Audience
This book is written for human resource professionals who need to know what coaching is and how it can be helpful. Some of you are responsible for bringing coaching services to your clients.
Another group that may find this book interesting is the prospective clients themselves, since they need to know what they’re getting into and how to use coaching to best effect. We are
aware that the term “client” is used by some people to refer to the employer generally, or to the HR professional, or even to the boss.
In certain ways, of course, they are clients as well as the person who is the focus of the coaching. These people certainly receive value from a successful coaching assignment. For the sake of clarity, and because we believe he or she should be the primary client, we use
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