Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching

Chapter Ten

TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES

What’s in Your Toolbox?

Ann M. Herd and Joyce E. A. Russell

Research indicates there may be as many tools and techniques for coaching as there are coaches. As Bono, Purvanova, Towler, and Peterson (2009) noted in a review of executive coaching practices, “there is little uniformity in the practices of executive coaches. Coaches seem to use a variety of assessment tools, scientific or philosophical approaches, activities, goals, and outcome evaluation methods in their coaching” (361). The goal of the current chapter then is to pull together in one place many of the tools, techniques, and frameworks that have been used in the practice of leadership coaching. To date, there hasn’t been a single source that has described ...