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The Coaching Organization: A Strategy for Developing Leaders 1st Edition

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"In this era of the search for low-cost, high-impact organizational improvement, The Coaching Organization is a real godsend. In one well-written reference you have everything you and your organization need to know about creating learning through on of the most available resources: relationships. This is an excellent source for helping people master the skills of coaching, so that your organization can be a place where leaders grow leaders. If you′re serious about improving organizational effectiveness, you and many of your colleagues need to read this book." -- Douglas T. Hall Published On: 2006-06-28

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Dr. James M. Hunt is an associate professor of management and former Chair of the Management Division at Babson College, in Wellesley, Massachusetts. There he teaches leadership, talent development and creativity. James has consulted to numerous business and health care organizations on the development of an organizational coaching capability, executive coaching, and talent development by managers. His current research is on the relationship between creativity, uncertainty and career development.  He co-lead the design of Babson’s innovative Talent Management course in the MBA Program and lead the redesign team for Babson’s flagship course, Foundations of Management and Entrepreneurship.  Formerly, he was faculty co-director of the Babson College Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program and a founder and former faculty co-director of the Babson Executive Education Coaching Inside the Organization program, designed for organizational development and human resource professionals. James is coauthor of the book The Coaching Organization: A Strategy for Developing Leaders, a groundbreaking study of best practice companies and coaching, published by Sage (2007).

Dr. Hunt graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a bachelor’s of science degree and received a doctorate in business administration from Boston University Graduate School of Management, where he studied career and leadership development and work/life balance


 

Dr. Joseph R. Weintraub is a professor of management and organizational behavior at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts where he serves as the founder and faculty director of the Babson Coaching for Leadership and Teamwork Program. He is also the faculty director of the Management Consulting Field Experience Program at Babson, an experiential project management program providing consulting services to both the for profit and not-for-profit sectors. Dr. Weintraub is an industrial-organizational psychologist who focuses in the areas of individual and organizational effectiveness including leadership development, coaching, team effectiveness, innovation, and performance management. His work on coaching has received several awards, including the “Management Development Paper of the Year” from the Academy of Management. He is the coauthor of The Coaching Organization: A Strategy for Developing Leaders (Sage, 2007). Dr. Weintraub’s work has appeared in a number of publications including the MIT Sloan Management Review, Organizational Effectiveness, The Wall Street Journal, the Journal of Management Education, and The European Financial Review. 

Dr. Weintraub serves as Faculty Director at Babson Executive Education, where he is the cofounder and codirector of Coaching Inside the Organization, an innovative certification program for internal organizational coaches. In addition to his work at Babson, Dr. Weintraub is also president of Organizational Dimensions, a management consulting and assessment firm based in Wellesley. He spends much of his consulting practice in helping organizations to develop their own coaching managers. He also develops and delivers leadership development programs in a variety of organizations around the world.  His clients have included General Electric, Bose, Fidelity Investments, Citizens Bank, EMD Serono, Boston Children’s Hospital, Ocean Spray, and T-Mobile. He is also the co-developer of InnoQuotient, a comprehensive survey tool that measures the culture of innovation in organizations.

Dr. Weintraub received his B.S. in psychology from the University of Pittsburgh and both his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in industrial-organizational psychology from Bowling Green State University.

He can be contacted at weintraub@babson.edu.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ SAGE Publications, Inc; 1st edition (August 3, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1412905761
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1412905763
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 13.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.61 x 9 inches
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Keith E. Webb
5.0 out of 5 stars Creating a Coaching Culture in an Organization
Reviewed in the United States on August 11, 2007
Until recently, there were no books on how to implement a coaching style of leadership throughout an organization. Now we have The Coaching Organization. This book provides leaders with a thoughtful strategy for introducing developmental coaching throughout an organization.

The Coaching Organization is straightforward, mixing helpful instruction with actual case studies. The authors also wrote  Coaching Manager: Developing Top Talent in Business  and have obvious expertise in this area.

After reviewing what developmental coaching is, the authors provide an organization assessment of readiness to implement a coaching culture. The assessment has four sections: 1) the cultural context; 2) the business context; 3) the human resource management context; and 4) organizational experiences with coaching. The last assessment section leads into one of the more innovative (and therefore worth reading) chapters, that of A Strategic Approach to Coaching.

Here the authors go beyond the obvious of "linking coaching to business outcomes" and go deeper to the systemic level. The goal is to create a coaching initiative that promotes a sustainable coaching capacity. Here's where the book pays off: the authors show how some "common sense" initiatives to introduce coaching actually work against the long-term sustainability of coaching. For example, if a coach is assigned to a poorly performing manager, what is communicated is that coaching is for those not doing well, thus, managers resist the coaching initiative so they won't be labeled a "poor performer."

Two other especially useful chapters are about how to build and lead a coaching capacity, and how to raise up qualified Internal coaches. These two processes are at the heart of creating a coaching organization. In my view, it will still take partnership with a coaching provider or trainer to do it, but the chapters serve as a guide for the overall process.

The Coaching Organization is one of only a few books on organization-wide implementation of coaching.
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John Aboud
5.0 out of 5 stars Strategic Thinking about how to create a Coaching Organization
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2007
I liked their first book, The Coaching Manager, which discussed the importance and strategy of actually coaching--this new paperback book goes to the next level, taking a more strategic view of coaching. This is helpful because there's little out there that talks about HOW to create a coaching culture. The Coaching Organization admirably fills that gap. They get you to think about taking a strategic approach to development through coaching. Including what it takes to be successful.

The number of examples of real companies showing how they are using the development coaching model is really helpful. I especially liked the Whirlpool case, illustrating how a large, successful company uses coaching as an adjunct to its leadership development efforts and the importance of a senior leadership team dedicated to executive development. The cases used make a very compelling statement supporting the "business case" as to why it makes sense to create a coaching organization.

The authors are well-known academics in addition to being firmly grounded in the real world of business and consulting. They avoid excessive hype and selling their point of view, while making clear the value of their approach to organizations committed to genuine development efforts.
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Rob Wherrett
2.0 out of 5 stars A failure to effectively deliver what should have been a good theme
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2016
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A badly written book that suffers from the following (unforgiveable) problems:

1) Given this is about getting people to understand and comprehend ideas, the authors singularly fail to grasp the need to make it readable. 40-word sentences are no aid to comprehension. In fact the whole book suffers from not having been adequately edited - the result should have been a reduction in around 50% of the word count without loss of any of the underlying message.
2) The structure is vague - instead of setting out 8-10 key precepts and dealing with them it meanders and the focus is almost entirely on big-corporate, which, given the business world, is a huge error. Coaching is needed in businesses that aren't Fortune 500 or FTSE-350
3) It suffers from poor layout and in some instances simply wrong messages. For instance the discussion about what should be present to encourage a coaching organisation culture at Box 4.2 (in the Kindle version at least) gets its referencing completely wrong. Simple error that should have been picked up at proof stage.
4) It is very academic in its style - and suffers accordingly. Who do the authors think they are talking to? Clearly not practical business-people!

This is a missed opportunity to make readily available the insight(s) that the authors probably possess. I say probably because there is insufficient transmission of their ideas to be completely certain. Too self-congratulatory and not objective enough. Also they don't give insight into counter theories that might be at play and given how much work went into the research this seems very odd indeed.

Hard work to follow some of their arguments - and really for people who work in Coaching that is a ridiculous comment to have to make.

The fact that the hard copy isn't directly available in the UK/EU is also strange - if this is the go-to work on Coaching Organisations (and evidence suggests there isn't much else out there on the topic) then why not? It seems to be trading on that USP without addressing the market needs properly or working out who is actually going to read this.

Expect to struggle through to make sense of it - that said at least 60% of the underlying messages are broadly relevant to Executive Coaches. If you are in HR and looking for information it can be summed up simply as:

A) Make sure actions are reinforcing corporate business results; and
B) They support the building of a coaching capability
C) Ensure the top-down support is there and that they (the C-Suite) walk the talk
D) Don't start with Coaching as remediation for poor performance - it sends the wrong message and others will want to avoid getting caught up in it.
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Mr Mark A Jarvis
4.0 out of 5 stars Good coaching read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 13, 2021
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A pretty good read.
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