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Coaching & Mentoring

I've always been fascinated with the subject of coaching. If it's from the sidelines in a sport or beside you in a cube, or in the front row of a presentation giving you hand signals to slow down when you speak, coaches help us work smarter because they see things we can't see from our own vantage point.

Because of this, I've been looking at some very interesting companies and resources that focus on coaching. We'll use this space in the coming months to introduce you to some of the concepts behind coaching and to some of the valuable articles, books, web sites, and companies focused on this topic. The conversation will inevitably focus on mentoring, too, but I'm starting with coaching. Please send suggestions for your favorite coaching resource to include here.

Organizations

Coach Inc. is an outstanding source of finding coaches, getting training on how to become a coach, and a source for coach placement. They also host coaching events and offer great articles on the principles of corporate leadership and service. Categories include: 1) How organizations are changing. For instance, check out ``What people want from work and the workplace today." 2) The Leader as Coach. That includes ``Factors Which Predict Success for the Organizational Leader Coach." 3) Leader Coaching Skills. Specifically, see ``Questions to Ask Before Providing Performance Feedback." 4) Coaching Organizational Teams. ``Ten Principles which Define Organizational Shared Vision and Coach Teams for Extraordinary Results" is right on. 5) How Coaching Benefits Different Individuals includes ``Reasons Corporate Execs Work with a Coach."

CoachWorks offers programs on Legacy Leadership.

The Coaches Training Institute helps people learn how to be coaches.

Tutor.com is not exactly a coaching site, but an interesting way to focus on learning. This site is a network and resource for tutors.

Articles

Coach Works: Career Development. Rochelle Garner. CIO Magazine, February 2000. To fit in with the ranks of upper management, some CIOs need a little help from the sidelines.

Boooorrriinng! Harriet Rubin. Fast Company, June 2000. ``To train athletes, you make them run. To train leaders, you do what exactly? Teach them management? Teach them the numbers? Teach them confidence? Or perhaps you teach them how humanity really works: how to tap into what goes on beneath sophisticated human surfaces; how to find the connection that makes perfect strangers identify with an idea, a project, a vision, even the unknown. Isn't leadership, after all, a higher form of selling, where what you're selling is the future? If you want to sell shares of the future, you need more than off-the-shelf business skills."

Transformative Dimensions of Adult Learning. Jack Mezirow. Jossey-Bass, 1991. This may seem like an old book, not on topic, but it's still one of my favorites and an excellent source of insight on how working together changes the way people learn. Excellent context for the coaching discussion.

Books

Coach Yourself to Success: 101 Tips for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life; Talane Miedaner, Sandy Vilas.

Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life. Laura Whitworth, Henry House, Phil Sandahl

Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others. James Flaherty.

The Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business and Personal Success. Thomas J. Leonard, Byron Laursen (Contributor).

Personal Coaching for Results: How to Mentor and Inspire Others to Amazing Growth. Lou Tice.

Take Time for Your Life: A Personal Coach's Seven-Step Program for Creating the Life You Want. Cheryl Richardson

Simply Live It Up: Brief Solutions. Teri Belf, Charlotte Ward.

Coaching for Performance: People Skills for Professionals. John Whitmore.

The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Culture. Thomas G. Crane.

The Handbook of Coaching: A Comprehensive Resource Guide for Managers, Executives, Consultants, and HR. Frederic M. Hudson.

Masterful Coaching: Extraordinary Results by Impacting People and the Way They Think and Work Together. Robert Hargrove.

The Inner Game of Work. W. Timothy Gallwey.

Take Yourself to the Top: The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach. Laura Berman Fortgang.

Take Yourself to the Top of Your Life: How the Secrets of a Leading Life Coach Will Help You Achieve Success, An 8-Step Life-Coaching Strategy. Laura Berman Fortgang.

Work Less, Make More: Stop Working So Hard and Create the Life You Really Want! Jennifer White.

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