Creating a coaching culture : developing a coaching strategy for your organization

Hawkins, Peter 1950- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780335238958
ISBN: 0335238955
Physical Description: print
xii, 199 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Maidenhead, Berkshire : Open University Press, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-192) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

1. Setting the context: the growth of coaching and the challenges It now faces -- pt. 1 THE FOUNDATIONAL PILLARS -- 2. What is a coaching culture? The key ingredients -- 3. Creating a coaching strategy and aligning it to the wider organizational culture change -- pt. 2. THE SEVEN STEPS -- 4.Step 1: Developing an effective panel of external coaches -- 5. Step 2: Developing the internal coaching and mentoring capacity -- 6.Step 3: The organization's leaders actively support coaching endeavours and align these endeavours to the organizational culture change -- 7.Step 4: Coaching moves beyond individual formal sessions to team coaching and organizational learning -- 8. Step 5: Coaching becomes embedded in the HR and performance management processes of the organization -- 9. Step 6: Coaching becomes the predominant style for managing throughout the organization -- 10. Step 7: Coaching becomes how an organization does business with all its stakeholders -- pt. 3. INTEGRATION AND DEPTH -- 11. How to get all the elements working together and aligned to the `relational value chain' -- 12. Expanding the depth and improving the quality of coaching activities: supervision and continuous personal and professional development -- 13. Evaluation, research, and the return on investment from creating a coaching culture -- 14. Conclusion: the challenges going forward.