Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - April 2003 Issue
Considering a Coach?
Coaching is much more than a popular management trend — it can be a powerful process for improving your management and leadership skills. Investing the time, effort and money in a good management coach, combined with a well thought-out development plan, may be the best way to tackle your goals. Find out the what and why of executive coaching in this issue of the e-newsletter.
This issue is reflects some of the knowledge encapsulated in the guidebooks:
 Choosing an Executive Coach |
 Using Your Executive Coach |
For more information about CCL's coaching options, e-mail CCL Client Services at info@ccl.org or call +1 800 780 1031.
What is Coaching, Anyway?
Years ago, coaching was viewed as a way to improve "problem" managers. By the late 1990's, coaching became a perk for senior executives. Today, coaching is considered an effective process for helping managers - of all levels and abilities - meet their goals. (more...)
Who Should It Be? What to Look For in a Coach
Choosing a coach isn't always easy, but putting the effort into selection is well worth your while. By knowing what to look for - experience, perspective, chemistry and trust - you can quickly eliminate coaching candidates who aren't a good match and begin building a relationship with the coach who is right for you. (more...)
Are You Ready? How to Get the Most from Your Coach
A coach may sound like a good idea, but are you ready and willing to make the most of it? A successful coaching relationship is just as dependent on your readiness as it is finding the right coach. (more...)
When You're the Coach: Advice from Marshall Goldsmith
Executive coach and consultant Marshall Goldsmith knows what works and what doesn't when it comes to coaching. For more than 20 years, he has coached and counseled managers, including top executives at corporations such as 3M, Accenture, American Express, Boeing, Chase Bank, GE, GlaxoSmithKline and Johnson & Johnson. If you're a manager who sees coaching others as part of your job, Goldsmith's eight-step approach to coaching leaders for behavioral change gives you a framework for success. (more...)
Leadership Poll Results
 Ann Flaherty |
March Poll Results: Do You Know How to Give and Receive Feedback Effectively?
The focus of our March 2003 e-Newsletter was feedback. The online poll explored readers' thoughts on how often and under what conditions they give and receive feedback, how satisfied they are with the feedback they receive and who is most difficult to give feedback to. More than 400 readers responded. Ann Flaherty, feedback manager for CCL and certified feedback specialist and executive coach, comments on the findings. (more...)
Coaching and the Discovering the Strategic Leader Program: A Sure-fire Way to Improve Strategic Leadership
Effective strategic leaders have a certain mindset and a range of skills that allow them to think, act and influence in ways that enhance their organizations' sustainable competitive advantage. In CCL's Developing the Strategic Leader program, upper-level managers and executives participate in a coaching session to explore their personal effectiveness as strategic leaders and learn ways to improve the strategic functioning of teams and the organization overall. (more...)
