Coaching has proven to be one of the most power and effective ways for leaders to develop and improve their performance. Yet working one-on-one with a coach is not always possible. If you want the experience of masterful coaching, Your Coach (In a Book) provides a time-efficient and affordable solution. Based on the authors' highly successful Masterful Coaching approach, Your Coach (In a Book) is designed to help you master your trickiest leadership, business, and career challenges. Throughout, master-level coaches Robert Hargrove and Michel Renaud engage the reader in a "coaching conversation" about your most important goals, pivotal decisions, bothersome issues, and dilemmas. Your Coach (In A Book) simulates the experience of working with a personal coach. drawing on thousands of hours of coaching conversations. It gives you the insights you need to set aspirational goals, master the corporate chessboard, and create new openings for action where you are stuck or ineffective. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Once they get past the authors' rah-rah style and their extravagant claim that their coaching method can change the world, corporate leaders will find a wealth of practical advice on how to advance themselves in this buck-up for the up-and-comer. Hargrove (Masterful Coaching), the chair of Masterful Coaching Inc., and Renaud, a senior partner at the company, condense a year's worth of private coaching into this manual, which is addressed to exceptionally motivated business people with leadership aspirations. Many of the leadership tactics put forth here are familiar, such as the use of "360 degree feedback" to divide employees into A, B and C categories (nourish A's, coach B's and dump C's). The authors draw from a wealth of clients for case studies: Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Young, Phillips Electronics Executive VP Patrick Lamonde and EMG Corp.'s John Reingold all make appearances. Strategies presented in a clear and fairly well organized manner include creating an inspiring blueprint for the future, learning to become a master corporate politician, and building coalitions when you are not yet in charge. Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

Robert Hargrove is chairman of Masterful Coaching, Inc., of Brookline, Massachusetts
Michel Renaud is a senior partner in Masterful Coaching, Inc. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Preface: Our Leadership Manifesto--Better Leaders, Better World	p. xi
Introduction: Democratizing Coaching	p. 1
1 What's the Opportunity in Coaching for You?	p. 8
Part 1 Your Extraordinary Business Challenge	p. 23
2 Declare an Impossible Future--That Captures People's Imagination	p. 39
3 Face Reality--Identify What's Missing That, if Provided, Will Produce a Breakthrough	p. 46
4 Create a Source Document--Vision, Major Milestones, Key Initiatives, Guiding Principles, and Methodologies	p. 53
5 Get Everyone to Formulate a Significant Business Challenge--Create Line of Sight to Strategic Goals	p. 62
6 Desperate to Break Out of the No-Growth Morass?--Blow Up Your Business Model Versus Tinker at the Margins	p. 69
7 Looking to Get a Chunk of Capital at Your Next Board Meeting?--The Best Presentation Is the One You Never Make	p. 77
8 Create Customers Who Brag About You--Shift from a "Me" Point of View to a "You" Point of View	p. 84
Part 2 Your Extraordinary Leadership Challenge	p. 91
9 Be an Extraordinary Leader--Recognize That Your Winning Strategy has Gotten You Here But May Not Take You Where You Want to Go	p. 107
10 Stand for Something!--Leadership Arises in Discovering Yourself as the Stand You Take	p. 114
11 Get Your Grand Design Over the Line--Vision Is Not Enough! Execute on Your Source Document Until It Exists Independent of You	p. 121

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