Books & Articles Referenced by Fellow Members
Coaching Overworked and Overwhelmed
Overworked and Overwhelmed: The Mindfulness Alternative, CoachSource coach and CONNECT member, Scott Eblin
Recovering from information overload, McKinsey Quarterly
Overloaded Circuits: Why Smart People Underperform, Ned Hallowell
Death by Information Overload, Harvard Business Review
Measuring the ROI of Coaching
Business Impact of executive coaching: Demonstrating monetary value, Vernita Parker-Wilkins, 2015
What Can Coaches Do for You?, Diane Coutu and Carol Kauffman, 2008
Business Impact of Executive Coaching: Demonstrating monetary value, Vernita Parker-Wilkins, 2006
Measuing ROI in Executive Coaching, Jack J. Phillips, PhD and Patricia P. Phillips, PhD, 2005
An ROI Method for Executive Coaching: Have The Client Convince the Coach of the Return on Investment , Mary Beth O'Neill, 2005
Measuring the ROI on Coaching, Results Coaching Systems, 2003
Your Coaching Program 2.0: Manage, Measure, Maximize!, Lisa Ann Edwards presentation
Can Coaching Effectivness Be Measured?, Presentation by Terry Bacon, PhD and Anna Pool, MA, OD
Content by CONNECT Members
How to Be a Collaborative Leader for Innovation & Growth, Edward Marshall
Click here to download Edward Marshall's PowerPoint that accompanied his Webinar delievered to 75 senior business leaders from all over the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa. The Webinar presentation was delivered under the auspices of Medinah Institute for Leadership Entrepreneurship.
Leaders and Their Stories: Becoming the Master of Your Personal Narrative
CoachSource coach and CONNECT member, Steve Ober, was recently featured in The Society for Organizational Learning Journal for his article, Leaders and Their Stories: Becoming the Master of your Personal Narrative."All of us have deep personal stories that shape our patterns of behavior and influence our present-day leadership styles. The most effective leaders are masters of living in congruence with those stories - and of reframing them to be more aligned with their changing aspirations. This article describes how, through story work, we can become clear about who we are and learn to create new stories - with new assumptions, feelings, and behaviors - that are mroe aligned with the results we want." Click here to download and read the article.
Pinpointing Excellence: The Key to Finding a Quality Executive Coach
Written by CoachSource coach and CONNECT Member, John Reed, Pinpointing Excellence: The Key to Finding a Quality Executive Coach, provides anyone thinking about employing an executive coach with an objective way to evaluate the candidates. Busy executives don't have time to take a course on selecting a coach, they need a quick test to determine both the quality and fit of a prospective. The practical data and straightforward tools included in this book ensure that consumers select only high quality coaches and generate better returns on their outlay of time, energy and money. This book is for the executive looking for a coach or the coach looking to fine-tune his or her services by bringing the realities of today's executive coaching field into clear perspective. Click here to read more about the book and author and for purchase details!
Leading with New Eyes
In his book Leading with New Eyes, CoachSource coach and CONNECT member, BH Tan, shares his unique and powerful perspective gained through over 35 years of experience in working with leaders in the East and West. The lesson that has emerged from his experience is that leaders will reinvent their organizations only if they lead with new eyes by tapping into both Western knowledge and Eastern wisdom. He calls such leaders explorers. As Brian Underhill quotes on the cover, "Incredibly well written and very enlightening...Take some time from your increasingly complex day to explore!" Click here to read a compelling article written by BH Tan adapted from his book, Leading with New Eyes.
Samsung 3.0: Talent, Technology and Timing
Written by CoachSource coach, Eun Y. Kim Ph.D. and Edward C. Valdez, Samsung 3.0 is the first English book about Samsung published after its rise to the Global Top 10 brands (2012). Through stories unknown outside of Korea, it tells the success secrets of the “Republic of Samsung.” It reveals the leadership philosophy, change management, and talent development that accelerated Samsung’s transformation since 1993. Readers will learn how to:
• Think 3D like Samsung’s Chairman
• Change everything except your family
• Read the times for the right timing
• Leverage Samsung DNA and speed
• Turn ordinary employees into extraordinary talents
• Do business effectively with Korean companies
Click to locate the book on Amazon.com!
Coaching for Change
Coaching for Change written by CoachSource coaches, John Bennett and Mary Wayne Bush, introduces a model that shows why coaching is the intervention of choice for driving organization change. The book helps you understand the principles and theories, practices and processes that are at play both in coaching and in change. A number of coaching and change models are explored with the goal of integrating them into a framework that can be applied to the individual, team or organization.
The book explains the theories behind both coaching and change, and includes practical sections on developing coaching skills. A companion website supports this book as a learning tool, featuring a curriculum, instructor guides, powerpoint presentations and more.
Coaching for Change is a valuable book for students on coaching, change management or organizational development courses, as well as professionals who want to develop their skills to drive successful change within their organizations.
Click to locate the book on Amazon.com!
Executive Coaching for Results: Executive Coaching Industry Research
We are pleased to present you with the Executive Summary of our latest research. As the industry's most ambitious research study, our research examines coaching practices across four perspectives: organizations with coaching programs, leaders being coached, internal coaches, and external executive coaches. This study builds upon a similar study completed in 2005, published in the book Executive Coaching for Results.
Download your complimentary copy as a benefit to your CoachSource CONNECT membership!
Future belongs to those who reinvent
as published in The Business Times, Friday, April 20, 2012
by BH Tan, Singapore
Leaders have to accept that the world has become too complex, and they really don’t have all the answers. Given a choice, who will follow you? Leadership is a relationship. Traditionally, a key test of leadership is the ability to persuade people to head purposefully towards a direction that they may not have thought of, or were opposed to, previously. Paint a picture of a better future. Inspire others to commit to the undertaking, even if fraught with uncertainties and danger. At journey’s end, it’s clear to all that conditions here far surpass those in the past. Such a leader has proved his mettle. 
The Best of Executive Coaching DVD
Presentation highlights and excerpts from the "Learning From Legends Seminars"
This two hour DVD features presentation excerpts from The Learning from Legends Seminars held in New York. The program is narrated and each session introduced by Dr. Gary Ranker, the world renown executive coach. We are featuring highlights from six sessions as follows:
Track One: Keynote Address: Executive Coach’s Memo to the CEO
Track Two: Strategic Communications: The Next Frontier in Coaching
Track Three: Coaching – An Integral Component of Global Leadership Development
Track Four: The Purpose of Coaching
Track Five: Navigating the Politics of Organizations
Track Six: When the Coach Becomes a Mentor and a Friend: A Twenty Year Conversation
Benefits of owning this DVD:
• Hear presentations by world class thought leaders at your convenience
• Share the presentations with colleagues
• Build a workshop program around the content and make it part of your learning experience
• Share the content with your global offices
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CLO Magazine: Casting a Critical Eye on Coaching
Brian Underhill and Steve Saas, Principals, CoachSource
There are proven benefits to coaching as a leadership development tool if engagements are structured, transparent and their effectiveness measured. When companies evaluate the broad array of management development tools and resources available, they turn increasingly to coaching for its flexible and highly personalized approach to enhancing leaders' performance. Yet, despite growing popularity and broad acceptance of coaching, uncertainty persists with respect to its objectives, delivery and effectiveness. [read more]
Lead With Purpose: Giving Your Organization a Reason to Believe in Itself
by John Baldoni, Ann Arbor, MI
Top 15 Global Leadership Expert
Author of 3 “best leadership books of the year” (2008, 2009, 2011) and regular contributor to Inc.
Featuring illuminating stories, interviews, and profiles of leaders from a variety of fields, Lead with Purpose shows readers how to take their organizations to the next level with renewed focus and improved direction.
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The First-Time Manager in Asia
by BH Tan, Singapore
Becoming a first-time manager is one of the most challenging experiences in a person's career. It is both a time of great excitement as well as uncertainty and insecurity. The good news is that you have been promoted. The bad news is that you will probably be left to sink or swim. First-time managers who succeed are able to make profound adjustments and adapt themselves quickly. By developing new competencies, they start to become value creators to their teams and companies. But those who aren't able to make the critical shifts will struggle.
With Asia rising, more Asian managers are reaching the upper rungs of management. There are also more younger Western managers who will be working alongside them. These self-confident Asian managers and their curious and enlightened Western counterparts know that it s no longer tenable to apply Western management practices without adaptation.
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STAND OUT!
by Simon Vetter, San Diego, CA USA
STAND OUT! offers inspiring stories and practical tools from business experts who have built an outstanding personal brand. Their branding strategies, applied in your career, will help you: Attract more people and opportunities; Increase your income; Make your work more meaningful.
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Global Leadership: The Next Generation
by Maya Hu-Chan, San Diego, CA USA
Global Leadership: The Next Generation systematically identifies what tomorrow's leaders will need to know, do and believe in order to successfully lead the global enterprise of the future. Drawing on the results of an extraordinary 2-year Accenture study of emerging business leaders, this book shows why the skills of today's global leaders won't be enough--and why tomorrow's leaders won't resemble today's. Goldsmith and his co-authors first identify five new "factors of leadership" and their implications: global thinking, appreciation of diversity, technological savvy, a willingness to partner and an openness to sharing leadership. They explain what it will mean to lead in an era where intellectual capital is the dominant source of value; how to lead people whose backgrounds and values may be radically dissimilar from yours; and why achieving personal self-mastery is now a fundamental prerequisite for leading others.
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Executive Coaching for Results:
The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders
by Brian Underhill, San Jose, CA USA
The field of executive coaching is growing at an astonishing rate. Corporations are increasingly turning to coaching as an intervention, as it offers leaders and managers both on-the-job learning and built-in follow-up. Human resource and leadership development practitioners must wade through a wilderness of conflicting information about when to use coaching, how to do it well, and how to evaluate the cost-effectiveness and success of any coaching intervention. "Executive Coaching for Results" helps this critical leadership development technique come of age.This is not a how-to-coach book - there are already plenty of those - but rather a comprehensive guide on how to strategically use coaching to maximize development of talent and link the impact of coaching to bottom-line results. Underhill, McAnally, and Koriath draw on their rigorous original research with Fortune 1000 and Global 500 companies such as Dell, Sony, Johnson & Johnson, Disney, Unilever, Wal- Mart, and many others to cover topics like coaching as part of an overall leadership development strategy; typical activities and instruments used during coaching; costs of coaching; development of an internal coaching program; selection of the right coach for the job; the ROI of coaching; following up after coaching; and much more. Offering practical learning, best practices, and illuminating case studies, this is the first definitive guide to the effective use of executive coaching in the corporate environment.
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Plugged: Discover the 3 powerful tools to dig out and get the right things done.
by Krissi Barr and Dan Barr
A business book in the spirit of other best-selling business fables, Krissi Barr and Dan Barr draw on their collective experiences to deliver a breakout book that is engaging, engrossing and empowering. Plugged teaches readers to shoot for “PAR,” a simple, proven method to achieve success based on three foundational elements. There are inevitable bumps in the road ahead, both in business and in your personal life. This book is about three powerful tools that will help you shake off decades of bad habits and get the right things done. It’s set against a backdrop of golf, arguably the most challenging sport in the world…after business, that is.
Each of these seemingly different worlds—business, life, and golf—has surprising commonality. Each is difficult, complicated, and can be rewarding. Each has its own set of rules, its own language, and its own scorecard. Most importantly, each of these realms has a similar path to excellence. Plugged will fire up you - and your team - with its unique combination of business drama and personal challenges about getting the right things done…and winning! A perfect airplane read, the lessons will resonate with readers and provide powerful take-away value for everyone in the business world.
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Get Out Of Your Own Way - Create The Next Chapter Of Your Life
by Jovita Jenkins, MBA, PCC
In her insightful and inspiring debut offering, Jovita Jenkins challenges readers to get out of their own way and deal with whatever is holding them back in their lives. With the honesty of an old friend and the insight of a professional coach, she leads readers on an intense journey of self-discovery that sets them on the path towards creating a compelling new chapter of their lives. In her professional coaching practice, Jovita works closely with clients to help them discover their path, set goals, and create an action plan to implement them. In Get Out Of Your Own Way, she brings her tried and true prescription for success to her readers and empowers them to be more focused, confident, and successful. Jovita’s strategies are enlightening, her style is engaging and will help even the most inflexible person retrain their brain, discover their passion and purpose, and begin living the life they’ve envisioned.
Articles
We recognize there will be countless articles by members to share with each other. We will be organizing those by topic area here as they come in. For now, we've posted just a few to get things started.Have an article to share? Send us the details! Your article must be downloadable by other members (but will not be posted to the general public).
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What experienced executive coaches do to fine-tune their coaching skills.
by Jeffrey Cohen, New York
As luck would have it, I was asked to make a presentation at ASTD NY. Talking about myself seemed boring, so I contacted 70 experienced coaches through LinkedIn and asked them:
"What are you doing to fine tune your coaching skills."
I expected a 10 percent response and was pleasantly surprised when 39 participated. On average, they said they are carrying out five developmental activities, many of them unique. Most of the respondents took my question to another unexpected level. That is, a personal level discussing what they value. I wonder whether this is an anomaly of this group or a characteristic of experienced coaches, in general. After reading the report, I'd be interested in your take. What the first thing that would come to mind if asked the same question? Please email me your thoughts.
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Sherpa 2013 Executive Coaching Survey
"This annual survey is the most reliable and method-sound in the coaching industry. In addition to being a leader in providing data about trends and issues in executive coaching, Sherpa has made its results available, in their entirety, at no charge." ~ Rey Carr, CEO, Peer Resources
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The Business Times
"Tide Turns In Asia's Favor"
by BH Tan, Singapore
Aspiring Asian corporate leaders have to seize the day by taking a leap of faith. The Asian business environment has reached a strategic inflection point. This may be described as a juncture at which businesses either go to new heights or start to decline. To download the article, click here.
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"Leadership is a Contact Sport"
by Marshall Goldsmith, CONNECT Advisory Board, San Diego, CA USA.
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by Brian Underhill, CONNECT Founder, San Jose CA USA
