Skip to Content
The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Facilitating Leader Development: New and Revised Edition
book

The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Facilitating Leader Development: New and Revised Edition

by Doug Silsbee
February 2010
Beginner
281 pages
6h 59m
English
Jossey-Bass
Content preview from The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Facilitating Leader Development: New and Revised Edition

THE MINDFUL INVESTIGATOR

While a healthy curiosity on the part of the coach animates the conversation, the coach must remain clear that the conversation isn’t for the coach’s benefit. This seems obvious, but when the coach is interested in the client’s story (and clients are inherently fascinating), it’s easy to get wrapped up in just pursuing that story, even when it leads into areas that aren’t relevant to the coaching. The mindful Investigator stays present with this inquiry, designing questions that tap into the client’s curiosity, so that the client begins to drive the discovery process.
A second mindfulness consideration is that a coach may be attached to his social identity as a brilliant question asker. It’s fun to ask questions ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning, 2nd Edition

The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning, 2nd Edition

Ho Law
The Little Book of Leadership Development

The Little Book of Leadership Development

Scott J. ALLEN, Mitchell KUSY, Peter VAILL

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780470579619