Recommended Reading and Web Topics
- Leadership
- Organizational Development
- Teams
- Communications/Development
- Coaching
- Personal Growth/Change
- Work Life Balance/Personal Renewal
- Neurolinguistics
- Emotional Intelligence
Recommended Reading and Web
Leadership
Presence-Based Leadership, Doug Silsbee
What Got You Here Won’t Get You There, Marshall Goldsmith
The New Leaders 100 Day Action Plan, Bradt, Check, Pedraza
Leadership Passages, Dotlich, Noel, Walker
Servant Leadership, Robert K. Greenleaf
How: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything, Dov Seidman
The Leadership Pipeline, Charan, Drotter, Noel
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership, Joseph Jaworski
Changing on the Job; Developing Leaders for a Complex World, Jennifer Garvey Berger
20 Essential TED Talks for Future Leaders
Why is Leadership so Hard
Organizational Development
Designing Matrix Organizations that Actually Work, Jay R. Galbraith
Built to Last, Collins, Porras
Good to Great, James C. Collins
Leading Change, John Kotter
Managing at the Speed of Change, John Kotter
Teams
The Advantage, Patrick Lencioni
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Patrick Lencioni
The Wisdom of Teams, Katzenbach, Smith
Communications/Relationships
Crucial Conversations, Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler
Conversational Intelligence, Judith E. Glaser
Learning in Relationship: Foundation for Personal and Professional Success, Ronald. R. Short
Fierce Conversations, Susan Scott
Humble Inquiry, Edgar H. Schein
Helping, Edgar H. Schein
Coaching
Differentiating Coaching from Consulting, Counseling and Mentoring
Is Coaching Right for You?
Questions To Ask A Prospective Coach
Presence Based Coaching, Doug Silsbee
Coaching Skills, Jenny Rogers
The Completely Revised Handbook of Coaching, Pamela McLean
Coaching with Backbone and Heart, Mary Beth O’Neill
The Hudson Institute, www.hudsoninstitute.com
Personal Growth/Change/Transitions
Designing Your Life, Burnett and Evans
Designing Your Life
Daring Greatly, Brene Brown
Ted Talk: Brene Brown on Vulnerability
Ted Talk: Brene Brown on Listening to Shame
Ted Talk: Amy Cuddy on Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are
The Power of Habits, Charles Duhigg
The Real Reason People Won’t Change
Beyond the Walls of Resistance, Rick Maurer
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Steven Covey
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation, Parker Palmer
Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change 3rd Edition, William Bridges
Life Forward, Pamela McLean
Working Identity, Heminia Ibarra
Finding Flow, Csizentmihalyi
Work Life Balance/Personal Renewal
Chained to the Desk, Bryan E. Robinson
Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities, Leider and Webber
Repacking Your Bags: Lighten Your Load for the Good Life, Leider
Neurolinguistics
Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson
Buddha’s Brain, Rick Hanson
Emotional Intelligence
Primal Leadership, Goleman, Boyatzis, Mckee
Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman
www.eiconsortium.org
Differentiating Coaching from Consulting, Counseling and Mentoring
Coaching, consulting, counseling and mentoring all offer specific expertise in a confidential environment, and it’s not unusual for a client to work with a coach as well as a counselor or consultant, for different purposes. It’s important to recognize the different relationships and intent.
Coaching: A partnership of equals in which the coach brings formal training and expertise in coaching, and facilitates a process to help the client make desired changes. It is future-oriented, employs a whole person perspective and presumes the client has the resources needed to change.
Consulting/Advising: Specific subject matter expertise is brought to recommend solutions to issues the client has identified. The consultant’s stance is one of “telling” and recommending.
Counseling: Formal training in addressing long term issues and experiences impacting the client today. The focus is on understanding past experiences that have led to the current situation and creating insights that heal the past, and help the present. The therapist is the “expert”.
Mentoring: Pairing of a more experienced leader with one who is more junior to aid in their development or performance improvement. It involves sharing personal experience and offering professional advice related to the mentor’s own growth and development through specific roles, organizations, and/or areas of accountability.