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By Marshall Moore February 18, 2014 Shared by Kelly Ross, MSLOC alumnae and MSLOC Coach in the Organizational and Leadership Coaching Certification program. "Good coaches get results, respect, and awards-just ask the three managers recently inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. But what makes a coach or mentor good? One school of thought says they should hold their mentees to specific performance benchmarks and help them reach those benchmarks by targeting their personal weaknesses. Popofatticus But new research suggests a different tack-namely, to nurture a mentee's strengths, aspirations for the future, and goals for personal growth. Indeed, studies suggest that this positive approach is more effective at helping people learn and change; for instance, it helps train business school students to be better managers, and it is more effective at getting patients to comply with doctors' orders."

By Jeanne Ebersole, MSLOC 2012 Few women hold roles at the top levels of organizations and of those who do, many have reported their intent to leave within five years. This study investigates the transition experiences of executive women who have opted out. It explores the genesis of their desire to opt-out, the support they received and would have liked to receive as well as the role of coaching in the process. Participants reported experiencing a distinct transition process with identifiable phases and that coaching would be useful in the transition.

Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, Laura Whitworth (2011) Required reading for 2013, MSLOC 454 (Coaching Fieldwork)

By Robyn Clark and Judah Kurtz (MSLOC alumnus) January 15, 2014 Coaching is a proven, effective tool for helping leaders to create a culture that fosters higher employee performance, increased engagement and retention, and enhanced business results."

By Kelly Ross, MSLOC 2011 Today's increasingly global business world is resulting in more organizations sending employees to work outside their home countries as expatriates. Organizations incur tremendous costs to support expatriate assignments, which can be challenging for the employees. This study defines characteristics of successful expatriates and assesses how coaching can support the expatriate's success.

"Coaching for Innovation: A Few Great Questions" by Bree Groff, MSLOC alumna October 1, 2014

By Aliah D. Wright in SHRM MSLOC alumnus, Judah Kurtz, is quoted in this article. Embrace the Inevitable For any of this to work, companies are going to have to take a leap of faith and embrace working in new ways. "To communicate more extensively and effectively, embracing technology inside the enterprise to leverage that is going to become that much more essential," said Judah Kurtz, senior manager of the talent solutions practice and an executive coach in the executive coaching practice at BPI group in Chicago. "If you can understand the knowledge and expertise of people throughout the organization … [they] are the ones who are going to be able to share information and documents and best practices and data or whatever ends up becoming an opportunity for us to have this back-and-forth dialogue," he said. Experts say that's when the real benefits begin.

Mary Beth A. O'Neill (2007) Required reading for 2013, Hudson Institute

Doug Silsbee (2008) Recommended reading for 2013, Hudson Institute

Pamela McLean (2012) Required reading for 2013, Hudson Institute

Jenny Rogers (2012) 2013 Required Reading for Hudson Institute

Thorough list of books, including abstracts, suggested for executive coaching.

Forbes By Senia Maymin, Ph.D. and Margaret H. Greenberg March 3, 2014 Shared by Ashley Boehm Punzalan, MSLOC Student "One of our clients, Kevin, had a goal to complete a redesign of his website by the end of the third quarter. However, as a business owner, he never seemed to find the time to focus on it while juggling dozens of other responsibilities. "At the end of each day, it just falls off my to-do list because more urgent things pop up," he told us. As executive coaches, we work with highly successful people like Kevin who are usually quite good at getting things done and getting good results. But … sometimes these same clients find it hard to achieve their more strategic or longer-term goals due to day-to-day demands. Usually, they are missing just one ingredient. The following study gives a hint of the missing puzzle piece."

Blog by Jenny Rogers, Author of Coaching Skills: A Handbook

Author(s): Sheila Heen adn Douglas Stone February 2014 Shared by: Andee Weinfurter

Marilee Adams (2009)

Biography « Inquiry Institute Author of Change your questions, Change your life (recommendation by Debbie Plager)

Rosamund Stone Zander, Benjamin Zander (2002) Recommended reading for 2013, Hudson Institute

Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler (2011) Required reading for 2013, Hudson Institute

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