Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges 2nd Edition

Very practical book with tone of learning on how to be a good Executive Coach. Examples are clear and have real use for my practice.Opens up a lot of topics to come back, as well to explore further.Great resource for anyone willing to go into Executive Coaching niche, as well for leaders who want to develop their coaching skills.

I set out on a course to work as an executive coach and found the Three key factor methodology to be an incredible useful model rightfully emphasizing the need to start out with the required business result to get the buy-in and way to filter any possible intervention against the criteria whether it would significantly impact the required business result. But then working on the team interactions proves to useful: contrasting the actual misgivings of the leader about team behavior and letting him discover what he really wants to see step by step let’s him too discover what he should change in his personal style. The book is jam-packed with useful advice and contains references to more material. Will definitely come back to study the book for a second time.

I am not a professional executive coach. Rather, I am an executive who enjoys and understands the importance of coaching. On the whole, I found this book to be very helpful. You have to read it with the mindset of an executive if that's who you are. It's not that difficult to transform the concepts. The examples were very well done. The templates and suggested structures were very good. My only criticism, is that I found it a bit repetitive. Also, some of the formatting doesn't translate perfectly to a Kindle edition.

Insightful and helpful business coaching content. The application of the content to “Coaching in a business” is still relevant today. Practical examples and checklists used were good.

Lots of best practice and insight to help any coach take her game to the next level. I am a sales coach finding engaged more and more on the senior management level and this book has helped further hone my skills. I implemented some of the methodology and results right away!

I have just started reading this book and find it most interesting and helpful. I am a certified Onthologycal Coach in search for tools, information, techniques and experience in order to practice and work on in Executive-Organizational coaching. I am confident in having -at hand- a helpful intrument in this book.

This text is both practical and systemic in its approach. It has sound foundations and theory underpinning it. Mary Beth O'Neill has integrated the learning from the groundbreaking Leadership Institute of Seattle (LIOS) Masters Degree neatly into this coaching approach. More valuable resources available from the LIOS faculty.

This is a coaching resource I keep at my fingertips! I appreciate the author's stand for head AND heart at the core of the coaching process, how to call them forth for my clients and manage them for myself.