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How do we create a coaching culture?
What will be the benefits for all parties?
How can we link it to the performance of our business?
How do we calculate the return on investment?
How do we make it sustainable?

Organizations are investing large sums of money in employing external and internal coaching and are increasingly under pressure to show a demonstrable return on this investment. In this much-needed book, Hawkins gives a well researched and practical answer to the whole question of how you create a âcoaching cultureâ and provides a step-by step guide to implementing this change. The book includes advice for both coaches and HR professionals on:

  • Establishing the right integrated mix of coaching by line managers, internal specialized coaches and external coaches
  • Combining individual and team coaching and connect both to the organizational change agenda
  • Harvesting the organizational learning from the thousands of coaching

    Table of Contents
    Introduction: The Coaching Challenge for chief executives, HR directors, heads of coaching, internal and external coaches, managers, coach trainers and researchers

    Setting the Context: The growth of coaching and the challenges it now faces

    Part 1: The Foundational Pillars
    What is a coaching culture? The key ingredients
    Creating a coaching strategy and aligning it to the wider organisational culture change

    Part 2: The Seven Steps
    Step One: Developing an effective panel of external coaches
    Step Two: Developing the internal coaching and mentoring capacity
    Step Three: The organization’s leaders actively support coaching endeavours and align these endeavours to the organizational culture change
    Step Four: Coaching moves beyond individual formal sessions to team coaching and organizational learning
    Step Five: Coaching becomes embedded in the HR and performance management processes of the organization
    Step Six: Coaching becomes the predominant style for managing through out the organization
    Step Seven: Coaching becomes how an organization does business with all its stakeholders

    Part 3: Integration and Depth
    How to get all the elements working together and aligned to the "relational value chain"
    Expanding the depth and improving the quality of coaching activities: supervision and continuous personal and professional development
    Evaluation, research and the return on investment from creating a coaching culture

    Conclusion: The challenges going forward

    Bibliography

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      Publisher: Open University Press
      Publication Date: 16/04/2012
      ISBN13: 9780335238958, 978-0335238958
      ISBN10: 0335238955
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      How do we create a coaching culture?
      What will be the benefits for all parties?
      How can we link it to the performance of our business?
      How do we calculate the return on investment?
      How do we make it sustainable?

      Organizations are investing large sums of money in employing external and internal coaching and are increasingly under pressure to show a demonstrable return on this investment. In this much-needed book, Hawkins gives a well researched and practical answer to the whole question of how you create a âcoaching cultureâ and provides a step-by step guide to implementing this change. The book includes advice for both coaches and HR professionals on:

      • Establishing the right integrated mix of coaching by line managers, internal specialized coaches and external coaches
      • Combining individual and team coaching and connect both to the organizational change agenda
      • Harvesting the organizational learning from the thousands of coaching

        Table of Contents
        Introduction: The Coaching Challenge for chief executives, HR directors, heads of coaching, internal and external coaches, managers, coach trainers and researchers

        Setting the Context: The growth of coaching and the challenges it now faces

        Part 1: The Foundational Pillars
        What is a coaching culture? The key ingredients
        Creating a coaching strategy and aligning it to the wider organisational culture change

        Part 2: The Seven Steps
        Step One: Developing an effective panel of external coaches
        Step Two: Developing the internal coaching and mentoring capacity
        Step Three: The organization’s leaders actively support coaching endeavours and align these endeavours to the organizational culture change
        Step Four: Coaching moves beyond individual formal sessions to team coaching and organizational learning
        Step Five: Coaching becomes embedded in the HR and performance management processes of the organization
        Step Six: Coaching becomes the predominant style for managing through out the organization
        Step Seven: Coaching becomes how an organization does business with all its stakeholders

        Part 3: Integration and Depth
        How to get all the elements working together and aligned to the "relational value chain"
        Expanding the depth and improving the quality of coaching activities: supervision and continuous personal and professional development
        Evaluation, research and the return on investment from creating a coaching culture

        Conclusion: The challenges going forward

        Bibliography

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