Title:
The handbook of coaching : a comprehensive resource guide for managers, executives, consultants, and human resource professionals
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Publication Information:
San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999
ISBN:
9780787947958
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Summary
Summary
This is an indispensable workbook for coaches, aspiring coaches, human resources managers, and visionary executives. The major theories, skills, and techniques of coaching are concisely described. Also offered is a comprehensive, annotated list of books, articles, and other resources for further study. The Handbook of Coaching is destined to become a classic in the field.
Author Notes
Frederic M. Hudson, Ph.D., is the president of the Hudson Institute in Santa Barbara and founder and former president of the Fielding Institute. He has consulted and coached professionals in a wide variety of businesses, universities, and not-for-profit organizations including 3M, Apple, Boeing. Dupont, General Electric, Hallmark, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Lockheed, Motorola, Pepsi Cola, Sun Microsystems, Stanford University, and AARP. He is the author of numerous books including The Adult Years, Revised Edition (Jossey-Bass, 1999).
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. xvii |
| About the Author | p. xxiii |
| Part 1 Introduction To Coaching | p. 1 |
| 1 Coaching: A Profession Born of Change | p. 3 |
| A Brief History of Coaching | p. 3 |
| Changes in Society | p. 4 |
| Mentoring-Coaching: A Response to Change | p. 5 |
| Examples of Coaching Tasks | p. 6 |
| Why We Need Coaches Now | p. 7 |
| Coaches Help Adults Manage Change Effectively | |
| Coaches Model Mastery | |
| Coaches Provide Ongoing Training in Technology | |
| Coaches Elicit Core Values and Commitments | |
| Coaches Renew Human Systems | |
| Coaches Sponsor Future Generations | |
| Coaches Model Collaboration and Consensus Building | |
| Coaches Tap the Genius of Older Workers | |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 12 |
| Mentoring and Coaching | |
| Sports Concepts in Coaching | |
| 2 Coaches: What They Do, Who They Are | p. 14 |
| Functions of a Personal or Organizational Coach | p. 15 |
| Who Coaches Are | p. 16 |
| Coaches Are Generalists | |
| Coaches Are Change Agents | |
| Coaches Are Good Communicators | |
| What Coaches Do | p. 17 |
| Coaches Work with a Whole Person or Organization | |
| Coaches Work from Core Values | |
| Coaches Connect Short-Term Strategies to Longer-Term Plans | |
| Coaches Seek Balance | |
| Coaches Promote Workable Futures | |
| Coaches Remain Available | |
| Two Kinds of Coaching: Being and Performance | p. 20 |
| Being Coaching--Inner Work | |
| Performance Coaching--Outer Work | |
| Some Coaching Dos and Don'ts | p. 21 |
| The Coaching Process | p. 22 |
| One-on-One Coaching | |
| Group Coaching | |
| Systems Coaching | |
| Gender Coaching | |
| Dealing with Resistance | |
| Who Can Be a Client? | p. 25 |
| The Nature of the Coach-Client Relationship | p. 25 |
| The Process of Developing a Good Coach-Client Relationship | p. 26 |
| Stage 1 Establish the Coach-Client Relationship | |
| Stage 2 Formulate a Coaching Agreement | |
| Stage 3 Move from a Problem Orientation to a Vision Orientation | |
| Stage 4 Construct a Change Scenario | |
| Stage 5 Resist Resistance | |
| Stage 6 Challenge, Probe, Confront | |
| Stage 7 Coach the New Scenario While Deepening the Relationship | |
| Stage 8 Conclude the Formal Relationship; Begin Follow-Up Coaching | |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 32 |
| Drawing from Other Professions | |
| Gender Coaching | |
| Women | |
| Coaching Women | |
| Coaching Women on Career Development | |
| Menopause | |
| Coaching Men | |
| Dealing with Resistance | |
| Negotiating Skills | |
| Living with Unsolvable Problems | |
| Cults | |
| Other Social Issues | |
| 3 Coaching as a Profession | p. 47 |
| Professional Organizations for Coaches | p. 47 |
| Other Associations as Resources | p. 48 |
| The Business Side of Coaching | p. 49 |
| Ethical Guidelines for Coaches | p. 49 |
| Specialized Coaching Areas | p. 51 |
| The Future of Coaching | p. 52 |
| Characteristics of the Profession | |
| Hurdles to Jump | |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 53 |
| Wellness Coaching; Nutrition and Exercise | |
| Financial Coaching | |
| Coaching as a Professional Field | |
| Part 2 Theoretical Roots of Coaching | p. 65 |
| 4 Psychological Theories of Adult Development | p. 67 |
| Psychoanalytical Theories | p. 67 |
| Psychosocial Theories of Adult Development | p. 70 |
| Moral Development Theories | p. 72 |
| Adult Development Theories | p. 74 |
| Therapies | p. 74 |
| Psychotherapy | |
| Solution-Focused Brief Therapy | |
| Narrative Therapy | |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 76 |
| Psychoanalytical Theories | |
| Psychosocial Theories of Adult Development | |
| Moral Development Theories | |
| Adult Development Theories | |
| Psychotherapy | |
| Brief Therapies | |
| Narrative Therapies | |
| 5 Social Theories of Adult Development | p. 85 |
| Social Context Theories | p. 86 |
| Marriage and Couples Development Theories | p. 88 |
| Family Development Theories | p. 89 |
| Career Development Theories | p. 89 |
| Adult Development Within Leisure Systems | p. 92 |
| Group (Team) Development Theories | p. 93 |
| Organization Development Theories | p. 93 |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 93 |
| Social Theories | |
| Theories of Couples Development | |
| Theories of Family Development | |
| Career Development Throughout Adulthood | |
| Leisure in Adulthood | |
| Group Development Theories | |
| Organization Development Theories | |
| Part 3 A Conceptual Model for Coaching | p. 103 |
| 6 Coaching Through Life Transitions | p. 105 |
| How Change Is Experienced | p. 105 |
| Life Chapters | |
| Life Transitions | |
| Phases Within Life Chapters and Transitions | p. 108 |
| Life Chapter: Phases One and Two | |
| A Minitransition | |
| Life Transition: Phases Three and Four | |
| Assessing Clients | p. 114 |
| Questions for Coaches: Assessing a Client's Stage of Development | p. 114 |
| Coaching and Biography, Rituals, Rites of Passage | p. 115 |
| Biography | |
| Rituals | |
| Rites of Passage | |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 116 |
| Coaching Clients in Phase One | |
| Coaching Clients in Phase Two | |
| Coaching Clients Through a Minitransition | |
| Coaching Clients in Phase Three | |
| Coaching Clients in Phase Four | |
| Continuity and Change in Adult Life | |
| Biography | |
| Rituals | |
| Rites of Passage | |
| Mythic Origins of Personal Stories | |
| Construction and Deconstruction of Stable Chapters | |
| Sample Biographies and Autobiographies | |
| Understanding Biographical Transitions | |
| 7 Coaching for Basic Values | p. 127 |
| Questions for Coaches: Helping a Client Assess Values | p. 128 |
| Questions for Clients: Coaching the Six Core Values | p. 129 |
| Core Value 1 Personal Identity | |
| Core Value 2 Achievement | |
| Core Value 3 Intimacy | |
| Core Value 4 Play and Creativity | |
| Core Value 5 Search for Meaning | |
| Core Value 6 Compassion and Contribution | |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 131 |
| General References to Human Values | |
| Value 1 Personal Identity | |
| Having a Private Life | |
| Sustaining Personal Resilience | |
| Developing People Skills | |
| Simplifying Your Life | |
| Value 2 Achievement | |
| Value 3 Intimacy | |
| Value 4 Play and Creativity | |
| Value 5 Search for Meaning | |
| Value 6 Compassion and Contribution | |
| General References: Coaching Individuals | |
| 8 Coaching for High Performance in Human Systems | p. 143 |
| Organization of the Chapter | p. 144 |
| Getting Started with Systems Coaching | p. 144 |
| First Coaching Area: Personal Care | p. 144 |
| Second Coaching Area: Couples | p. 145 |
| Third Coaching Area: Family and Friends | p. 146 |
| Parenting | |
| Grandparenting | |
| Extended Families | |
| Adult Friendships | |
| Fourth Coaching Area: Work | p. 147 |
| Organizational Culture | |
| Leadership Coaching | |
| High Performance with Individuals and Teams | |
| Organizational Learning | |
| Career Coaching | |
| Coaching Corporate Managers | |
| Entrepreneurism | |
| Organizational Development | |
| Fifth Coaching Area: Community | p. 150 |
| Coaching for Community Building | |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 151 |
| Personal Care | |
| Couples | |
| Being Single | |
| Dual-Career Couples | |
| Sex and Sexuality | |
| Separation, Divorce, and Remarriage | |
| Families | |
| Coaching Parents and Families | |
| Parenting | |
| Mothering | |
| Fathering | |
| Grandparenting | |
| Adult Friendships | |
| Work | |
| Organizational Culture | |
| Leadership Coaching | |
| Coaching for High Performance of Individuals and Teams | |
| Organizational Learning | |
| Career Coaching | |
| Coaching Corporate Managers | |
| Entrepreneurism | |
| Organizational Development | |
| Coaching for Corporate Change | |
| Coaching Organizational Transitions | |
| Restructuring, Downsizing, and Outplacement | |
| Coaching Organizational Transformation | |
| Finding One's Own "Work" | |
| Finding Financial Rewards Through Work | |
| Coaching for Community | |
| Leisure Coaching | |
| Coaching for Society-at-Large Roles | |
| 9 Coaching for Visioning and Purpose | p. 187 |
| Finding Purpose | p. 188 |
| Visioning | p. 188 |
| Developing Scenarios | p. 190 |
| Planning | p. 190 |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 190 |
| Coaching for Purpose | |
| Coaching for Visioning | |
| Coaching for Personal Vision | |
| Coaching for Corporate and Community Visions | |
| Developing Scenarios | |
| Planning | |
| 10 The Adult Learning Agenda | p. 194 |
| How Coaches Facilitate Adult Learning | p. 195 |
| Questions for Coaches: A Client's Learning Agenda | p. 196 |
| Questions for Clients: Constructing a Learning Agenda | p. 196 |
| Types of Adult Learning | p. 197 |
| Where Adults Learn | p. 197 |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 197 |
| Adult Personal and Professional Learning | |
| Part 4 Coaching for Mastery of the Adult Years | p. 201 |
| 11 Coaching Throughout the Adult Life Cycle: Young Adults | p. 203 |
| Longevity Coaching | p. 204 |
| Tips for Clients of All Ages | p. 204 |
| Coaching Young Adults | p. 205 |
| Coaching Adults in Their Twenties | p. 206 |
| Coaching Adults in Their Thirties | p. 206 |
| Coaching Early Bloomers and Late Peakers | p. 207 |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 208 |
| Overviews of Adult Life | |
| Longevity Coaching | |
| Twentysomethings | |
| Thirtysomethings | |
| 12 Coaching Throughout the Adult Life Cycle: Older Adults | p. 223 |
| Midlife Coaching | p. 224 |
| Fortysomethings | |
| Fiftysomethings | |
| Sixtysomethings | |
| Seventysomethings | |
| Eightysomethings, Ninetysomethings, Centenarians | |
| Spiritual Coaching | p. 230 |
| Later-Life Coaching | p. 231 |
| Retirement-Protirement Choices | p. 231 |
| Dying: Coaching the Final Transition | p. 233 |
| Questions for Coaches: The Assets of Aging | p. 234 |
| Basic Library for Coaches | p. 235 |
| Midlife Development | |
| Fiftysomethings | |
| Spiritual Coaching | |
| Coaching Elder Women | |
| Coaching for Wisdom in Elderhood | |
| Retirement-Protirement Choices | |
| Coaching Around Retirement-Protirement Choices | |
| Coaching Parents and Other Elders | |
| Coaching Late Elderhood | |
| Dying: The Final Transition | |
| Coaching for Dying | |
| Death | |
| Appendix A Coaching Tools--Assessments, Inventories, and Training Resources | p. 249 |
| Appendix B Training Programs for Coaches | p. 257 |
| Index | p. 261 |
