PART I
FOUNDATIONS OF COACHING
Part I, Foundations of Coaching, sets the stage for coaching as an approach to successful leadership. This section is comprised of foundational pieces, “classics” if you will, that explain how and why leadership coaching is relevant, valid, and necessary in today’s post-management business arena. We begin our book with an updated version of Marshall Goldsmith’s article, “Coaching for Behavioral Change,” in which Marshall describes his proven process for behavioral change and explains the importance of integrating a practical, behavioral change mechanism as a vital foundation element that must be at the root of successful coaching. In order to flourish within an enterprise or nonprofit organization, coaching must ...
