Bindning: Danskt band
Bokförlag: Tertulia
ISBN: 9789197747318
Omfång: 346 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2009-08-01
Originaltitel: Teams, Leadership and Coaching
Förlagets information
The essence of coaching is holding: supporting and challenging leaders, teams and organizations while they are busy making change happen. The coach offers a way of designing and leading learning opportunities for people involved in planned change. This book will show how such coaching is done. Thomas Sewerin has thirty-five years of experience as a coach in different branches of business organizations in Sweden and internationally. In this book he has put together the most common themes that come up in the organizational environments he is working with. The book will address questions like, What is a high performing team and how can we get there? What do we talk about when we talk about leadership, and what is good leadership? How is coaching different from leadership and management? Change, why so difficult, and how do we succeed with our intentions? What works? What does a coach do that will make a difference for clients? Teams, Leadership and Coaching has a simple layout. Every chapter covers a way of looking at organizations and team phenomena. Then there are case studies and reflection exercises for the readers. It will provide inspiring and creative guidance for leaders, coaches and teams in the complex dynamics of social systems. Teams, Leadership and Coaching is a work book for teams. It provides guidelines to stop and reflect on team behavior, needs and current challenges. It is a handbook for students in the coaching craft. It is a gold-mine for consultants and learning coaches with its rich variety of examples and approaches to all kinds of coaching needs. Teams, Leadership and Coaching is exceptional in that it focuses on coaching teams and larger social systems. It is unique in its utilization of art, films and literature as a means of clarifying important concepts and ideas of coaching.
Comments from readers: Sewerins insights into coaching are both profound and inspiring. His astonishing use of the creative arts from King Lear to Matisse to New Orleans jazz serves to instruct the coach and illuminate the coaching process. How many coaches would suggest that the splendid outdated machines in an industrial park can offer clarity into an organizations future, or that a team in crisis can find meaning in an architectural structure? And to this highly original perceptiveness, he adds a clear assessment of a coachs responsibilities, outlines the pitfalls which face the coach, and then empathically uses his own experience in addressing the vulnerability and challenge of the coaching art. This should be required reading for anyone coaching teams and individuals. Tony Pearson, LIM Leadership in International Management, USA I can honestly say, that it is one of the top ten leadership books that I've ever read. Given the three-part organization of the book, I found it very easy to read and the 'story unfolded' easily for me. The "teams, leadership, coaching" basics foundation allowed it to be focused/grounded (not trying to take on too much). And, I loved the final section - especially the "syncretism" concept. There is so much in the book that I am sure to personally apply. My book is really dog-eared Nick Nissley, Director,Leadership Development at the Banff Centre, Canada The book is thus a solid and coherent text that brings powerful insights to the reader in challenging areas. It is well-grounded in both new and established theories as well as state of the art practices, and offers interesting new angles and references. The book is worth reading also for a self-study purpose because it is written in a highly instructive and pedagocial way. It offers a range of good illustrations that can help the student understand otherwise intricate leadership subjects. We have used Thomas Sewerin's books in leadership programs and his way of writing always entice the student reader. Birgit Helene Jevnaker, Norwegian School of Management BI
