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Taking a client-centered approach to coaching is not difficult if coaches are open to using different methods (directive vs. nondirective, programmatic vs. circumstantial, specific vs. holistic). However, most people coach the way they were coached themselves, and they often don't see the alternatives. So we wrote this book to explore the different styles of coaching and when coaches should use them.
We intended it to be a practical and useful guide, so we included numerous coaching dialogues taken from actual sessions. We also described how effective coaches listen, ask insightful questions, give clients feedback, reflect on their observations of clients' behavior, offer advice, and confront clients. Finally, we offer a human change model that gives coaches a practical way to help their clients make lasting behavioral changes.
We close by discussing how to adapt your coaching style to diverse clients: cross-cultural, cross-generational, women and minorities, and C-level executives. We show that no matter what your own makeup as a coach, you must be adaptive when you coach people who differ from you in some important ways.
Karen I. Spear, Ph.D., is a senior researcher for the Lore Research Institute and director of the institute's peer review program. Formerly a professor, researcher, and executive in higher education, she has consulted widely on faculty development and program design and has coached consultants and executives at such leading firms as McKinsey and Company.
Together Bacon and Spear have taught coaching for nearly thirty years and have coached more than 7,000 executives and professionals in a variety of industries.
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