Tricky Coaching: Difficult Cases in Leadership Coaching

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-9
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
Executive Coaches: Who are We, and Why?....Pages 13-24
The Rescuer Syndrome....Pages 25-40
The Coaching Assessment: A Sine Qua Non....Pages 41-50
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
Themes in Tricky Coaching....Pages 53-64
No Job for a Hero....Pages 65-72
When Consulting Clients Need Coaching....Pages 73-81
Is He Listening to Me?....Pages 82-90
Picking up the Coachee’s Insecurities....Pages 91-97
Upsetting Your Client, Upsetting Your Boss....Pages 98-105
The Domineering Coachee....Pages 106-114
“Just Look at Yourself! How Could Anyone Be Led by You?”....Pages 115-121
Where’s the Challenge?....Pages 122-126
Coaching in a Family Conundrum....Pages 127-138
Can You Coach around a Dead End?....Pages 139-145
The Needs of the Group vs. the Needy Coachee....Pages 146-151
Coaching in a Foursome....Pages 152-159
Refusal to be Coached....Pages 160-169
When Your Client Feels Like a Scapegoat....Pages 170-176
Overcoming Fear and Vulnerability....Pages 177-182
Front Matter....Pages 51-51
An Impossible Transition?....Pages 183-187
The Resistant Client....Pages 188-194
Coach, Contain Thyself....Pages 195-199
Generational Dramas in a Family Firm....Pages 200-203
The Cranky Coach, or the Contractor Regrets....Pages 204-209
The Supervised Coach: Dealing with Feedback....Pages 210-216
Conclusion: In Praise of Trickiness....Pages 217-225
Back Matter....Pages 226-227