A Leader's Guide to Executive Coaching

Karen Kirkland Miller

As the challenges facing leaders and organizations become more difficult, executive coaching is rapidly gaining popularity. A new way of dealing with today's challenges, executive coaching is a formal arrangement in which a qualified coach works with a business leader in a series of dynamic, confidential sessions designed to establish and achieve clear goals that will result in improved business effectiveness both for the individual and for the organization. Sessions typically are customized, designed to closely match the executive's unique business challenges, and are solution focused.

Because executive coaching is a relatively recent phenomenon, there is limited information available ...

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