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There are two things that I feel incredibly passionate about – coaching and culture.
This is why I was thrilled to have an opportunity to co-author this book with the living legends of coaching – David Clutterbuck and David Megginson.
Want to know how to weave coaching into the cultural DNA of your company?
Look no further. Building and Sustaining a Coaching Culture is the perfect guide for HR professionals interested in creating an environment that supports learning and growth.
Easy to navigate and logically structured, topics include the current understanding of coaching culture in organizations, coaching and mentoring culture strategy, making effective use of external coaches, formal and informal mentoring, developing and supporting internal coaches and mentors, team coaching, cross-cultural marketing coaching, and cross-cultural issues.
This edition of Building and Sustaining a Coaching Culture is a fully revised version of the seminal book Making Coaching Work: Creating a Coaching Culture. It analyses what has changed in the field of coaching culture and provides update on new knowledge and experience. A wide variety of international case studies and engaging tools such as chapter overviews, templates, and reflective questions will take you clearly through the development and implementation of successful and integrated training culture. Whether you are an HR Manager looking to maximize the positive impact of coaching in your organization, a business leader wanting to facilitate growth, or a consultant or coach seeking to place your work in the relevant organizational context, you will be shown how to implement an effective coaching and mentoring strategy that meets your needs.
“When leaders make the conscious decision to create a coaching-based culture, their organizations are better equipped to thrive and outsmart the competition in entirely new ways. Building and Sustaining a Coaching Culture will enable global leaders to experience extraordinary results!”
“The 21st Century requires more than people who turn up for work – it requires the genius in all of us. A coaching culture, rather than traditional command-and-control, is paramount. David, David and Agnieszka are to be applauded for authoring a book that is so comprehensive and utterly practical.”
“This book harnesses years of thought-leadership and hard-earned experience by the authors to show how to create a coaching culture essential for a sustainable, high-performance organisation. An essential read.”
“A hugely rich resource, containing a broad range of information, principles and approaches to the somewhat ethereal topic of how to weave coaching into the fabric of organisational culture. I particularly like its clear, reading structure and format, enabling me to navigate quickly to the topics and issues I’m most interested in. Congratulations, another great addition!”
“Many success stories are highlighted in these pages with hints of the challenges in building and sustaining a coaching and mentoring culture. This excellent book offers the reader helpful ways forward to a brighter coaching future.”
“This comprehensive guide is one of the best I’ve read on the topic of a coaching culture –relevant, future focused and a significant contribution to the profession!”
“Creating a Coaching Culture is the aspiration of many organisations and achieved convincingly by few. The rapid growth predicted to continue in organisational coaching intensifies the quest to integrate coaching as a catalyst for business success. This book offers a pragmatic resource strengthened by theory, techniques and case studies to inform, make durable and benchmark the investment in coaching; an excellent addition from David, David and Agnieszka in securing the future for coaching in organisations.”
“This book is a real gift for anyone wanting to create change in an organisation. It offers a rich blend of theory and diversity of thought, but never loses sight of the reality of the environments in which we operate and co-exist.”
“Enlightening, to the point, and immensely useful for HR Professionals, CEOs and business leaders who want to build and sustain a coaching culture in their organisation. A truly outstanding book and an invaluable resource!”
“This book is an essential guide to anyone keen to introduce or enhance a coaching culture in their organisation. It’s a comprehensive resource with tools, templates and case studies to support the thinking and implementation of a coaching culture, wherever along that journey an organisation might be.”
“At last a book that provides clarity and structure to the intangible story of coaching culture. It has all the essentials of theory, attend to the critical systemic dimensions but also speaks practically about what creating a coaching culture involves. Highly recommend it for anyone working in the coaching field.”
“This book refreshes current thinking and approaches to developing coaching cultures. It delivers on being both highly practical and thought-provoking by elegantly combining guidance for practitioners with rich practice examples and powerful suggestions for reflection. An essential read for anyone interested in the practice of coaching in organisations.”
“This practical and comprehensive guide is a must-read for anyone grappling with the challenge of building a coaching culture in their organisation. It provides a great combination of theory and practice, marrying the historical context and new ideas with pragmatic and insightful case studies that really bring the topics to life.”
“A comprehensive handbook about all aspects of coaching packed with up to date research, real case examples, ready to use tools, a must have for every professional working with coaching.”
