The Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Coaching in Organizations

Part 2Coaching Guidance for HR Leaders

Many human resource professionals are learning basic coaching skills and doing more coaching than they ever anticipated. Coaching's core conversational approaches and mind-sets can be very helpful equipment for HR leaders who want to add tools for development and problem solving. The basic coaching skills are easy to learn, even if not always easy to do well, but there is a need for targeted reflection on the best ways to approach coaching as an internal professional. The authors of the chapters in part 2 provide coaching guidance from a systems resources point of view, tackling specific populations and situations that human resource leaders will face. The key theme in each of these chapters is that a ...