On Becoming a Leadership Coach: A Holistic Approach to Coaching Excellence

319 Pages·2013·1.83 MB·English

by  Christine Wahl

ON BECOMING A
LEADERSHIP COACH
ON BECOMING A
LEADERSHIP COACH
A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO
COACHING EXCELLENCE
SECOND EDITION
EDITED BY
CHRISTINE WAHL,
CLARICE SCRIBER, AND
BETH BLOOMFIELD
ON BECOMING A LEADERSHIP COACH
Copyright © Christine Wahl, Clarice Scriber, and Beth Bloomfi eld, 2013.
All rights reserved.
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On becoming a leadership coach : a holistic approach to coaching
excellence / edited by Christine Wahl, Clarice Scriber, and Beth
Bloomfield.—Second edition.
pages cm
ISBN 978–1–137–32288–3 (alk. paper)
1. Executives—Training of. 2. Executive coaching. 3. Leadership.
4. Employees—Coaching of. I. Wahl, Christine. II. Scriber, Clarice.
III. Bloomfield, Beth.
HD30.4.O5 2013
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For all who believe in the rigor of practice and
the possibilities for our remarkable profession.
CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables xi
Introduction xiii
Part I Being
CHAPTER 1
On Becoming a Leadership Coach 3
Neil Stroul and Christine Wahl
CHAPTER 2
Mapping the Terrain: An Overview of
Professional Coaching 13
William J. Courville
CHAPTER 3
Sacred Space: Where Possibilities Abound
and Change Is Engendered 45
Julie K. Shows and Clarice Scriber
CHAPTER 4
Cultures in Coaching 57
Karen Curnow
CHAPTER 5
Eastern Infl uence on Coaching 67
Randy Chittum
CHAPTER 6
Th e Case for Cultivating Present-Moment
Self-Awareness in Leaders and Coaches 75
Steve Heller
CHAPTER 7
Embodying Change 83
Roselyn Kay
Part II Doing
CHAPTER 8
Th e Coaching Relationship: A Mirror
into the Self 93
Kelly Lewis
viii | CONTENTS
CHAPTER 9
G.R.A.C.E. at Work: Strong Relationships
for Powerful Results 101
Eric de Nijs
CHAPTER 10
Using Story in Coaching 111
Margaret Echols, Karen Gravenstine, and
Sandy Mobley
CHAPTER 11
Whose Story Is Th is, Anyway? Identifi cation
with Clients in Leadership Coaching 119
Dave Snapp
CHAPTER 12
Congratulations—You’re in Breakdown! 129
Jennifer Sinek
CHAPTER 13
Th e Role of Emotions in Coaching 137
Karen Curnow and Randy Chittum
CHAPTER 14
Using Somatics to Coach Leaders 145
Margaret Echols and Sandy Mobley
CHAPTER 15
Distinctions for Coaching Leaders 157
Beth Bloomfi eld
Part III Using
CHAPTER 16
ALIFE™: A Listening Model for Coaching 169
Christine Wahl and Neil Stroul
CHAPTER 17
Behavioral Practices Made Simple 177
Scott Eblin
CHAPTER 18
Coaching in Organizations 185
Randy Chittum
CHAPTER 19
Moving the Client Forward: Designing
Eff ective Actions 195
Frank Ball and Beth Bloomfi eld
CHAPTER 20
Assessments for Insight, Learning, and
Choice in Coaching 207
Sue E. McLeod
CHAPTER 21
Th e Art and Practice of Grounded Assessments 219
Lee Ann Wurster-Naefe and Julie Shows
CHAPTER 22
Coaching and Leading as Stewards
for Sustainability 229
Lloyd Raines
CONTENTS | ix
CHAPTER 23
Th e Th inking Path 243
Alexander Caillet
CHAPTER 24
Coaching for Leadership Presence 259
Clarice Scriber
CHAPTER 25
Coaching for Leverage: Helping Clients
to Manage Priorities, Time, Energy,
and Resources 269
Katherine Ebner
CHAPTER 26
Action Learning: An Approach to
Team Coaching 281
Jennifer Whitcomb
CHAPTER 27
Coaching New Teams 291
Patricia A. Mathews
About the Editors and Contributors 301
Index 309
FIGURES AND TABLES
FIGURES
9.1 G.R.A.C.E. at Work: Playing in a bigger space 103
9.2 G.R.A.C.E.: Full coaching checklist 107
10.1 A model for using story in coaching: SCAN 114
12.1 A formula for change 132
19.1 Th e fl ow of coaching 196
22.1 Four stewardship relationships 231
23.1 Th e Th inking Path 244
23.2 Th e Th inking Path Template 249
23.3 Th e Current and Desired States 249
23.4 Partial Th inking Path Plan 256
25.1 Leverage coaching framework 271
26.1 Components of action learning 283
TABLES
3.1 Leadership coaching survey: Qualities 47
3.2 Leadership coaching survey: Practices 52
5.1 Eastern/Western thinking 68
12.1 Types of breakdowns 134
19.1 Steps to create self-observations 199
19.2 Steps to create practices 200
19.3 Steps to create an inquiry 202
19.4 Creating a structure of support 203
25.1 Priorities interview—Sample questions 272
25.2 Time interview—Sample questions 273
25.3 Energy interview—Sample questions 275
25.4 Resources interview—Sample questions 276
INTRODUCTION
Possibility. Sustainability. Agility. Reality. Opportunity. Quality.
Authenticity. Ability. Capacity. Stability. Productivity. Curiosity.
Rationality. Emotionality. Resiliency. Dignity. Integrity. Humanity.
MEANINGS THAT WE ASSOCIATE WITH the words above
have tremendous connection to the work we do as coaches of lead-
ers. Coaching leaders is a heart-and-soul, mind-and-body endeavor
that holistically focuses on a leader’s desired results. It requires our
leader clients to step onto the challenging path of reshaping their
current boundaries and recrafting the borders of their lives. Such
work is uncomfortable yet emboldening, freeing yet grounding. Th e
work has the impact of bringing leaders back to a person they know
well—themselves.
So much of coaching leaders is to help them remember their best
version of “self” as well as the version of “self” they aspire to. We call
this authenticity, and we need more of it from our leaders.
Th e chapters in On Becoming a Leadership Coach: A Holistic Approach
to Coaching Excellence are written by coaches who are or who have been
on the faculty of the Leadership Coaching Certifi cate Program at
Georgetown University. Th e chapters cover topics that cover heart and
soul, body and mind. When we wrote the fi rst edition of this book, we
intended to share the current thinking about the multiple aspects of
the art and discipline of coaching leaders from the perspective of the
edgy and inquiring minds of the faculty. Th is second edition refl ects
our updated thinking and off ers new topics for coaches to refl ect on
and revisions of the thinking in some of the original chapters.
While aimed at coaches who wish to continue their own develop-
ment by off ering them concepts and tools to work with, this book will
appeal to anyone in the business of listening to others and helping