Creating a Coaching Culture: Developing a Coaching Strategy for Your Organization

by Peter Hawkins

Overview

Creating a Coaching Culture will help coaches and coaching companies to be more effective in the market place, by using an approach that works to create a coaching culture and integrates coaching well into organisations

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780335238958
Publisher:	McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Publication date:	09/28/2012
Pages:	199
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Foreword viii

Acknowledgements ix

Coaching Strategy Case Studies xi

Introduction: Coaching at a crossroads ? the challenge for chief executives, HR directors, heads of coaching, internal and external coaches, managers, coach trainers, and researchers 1

1 Setting the context: the growth of coaching and the challenges it now faces 11

Part 1 The Foundational Pillars 19

2 What is a coaching culture? The key ingredients 21

3 Creating a coaching strategy and aligning it to the wider organizational culture change 33

Part 2 The Seven Steps 45

4 Step 1: Developing an effective panel of external coaches 47

5 Step 2: Developing the internal coaching and mentoring capacity 60

6 Step 3: The organization's leaders actively support coaching endeavours and align these endeavours to the organizational culture change 79

7 Step 4: Coaching moves beyond individual formal sessions to team coaching and organizational learning 89

8 Step 5: Coaching becomes embedded in the HR and performance management processes of the organization 104

9 Step 6: Coaching becomes the predominant style for managing throughout the organization 114

10 Step 7: Coaching becomes how an organization does business with all its stakeholders 125

Part 3 Integration and Depth 137

11 How to get all the elements working together and aligned to the 'relational value chain' 139

12 Expanding the depth and improving the quality of coaching activities: supervision and continuous personal and professional development 152

13 Evaluation, research, and the return on investment from creating a coaching culture 160

14 Conclusion: the challenges going forward 175

Bibliography 183

Index 193