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Book Description

Become a more effective leader by discovering the resources you already have

Pamela McLean, CEO and cofounder of the Hudson Institute for Coaching, has been at the forefront of the field for the past three decades, using clinical and organizational psychology to provide the highest-quality coaching and development training to professionals in organizations and solo practice worldwide. Now, Pamela is teaching readers to cultivate their leadership potential through “use of self as instrument,” a key dimension of developmental coaching that emphasizes the whole person. Her holistic methods give coaches and other leaders a clearer framework for getting to know themselves, exploring their multiple layers, and fostering their latent abilities so that they can foster the abilities of others.

Self as Coach guides you along a path that interweaves six broad dimensions of your internal landscape into the fabric of great coaching. This creates lasting improvements, unlike more common remedial, tactical, or performance-based programs, which often only function as short-term solutions.

  • Develop leadership skills using internal resources you already possess
  • Achieve real improvements with long-lasting benefits
  • Based on methodology proven successful in business and personal settings
  • Includes useful practices and exercises for self-reflection and brainstorming

Whether you’re an emerging or experienced coach, whether you want to grow your own leadership skills or develop them across an entire organization, Self as Coach can help. With its innovative approach, proven methods, and near-universal applicability, this book will not only provide effective instruction but also help you uncover lasting insights that will benefit you long after you’ve turned the last page.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Leaping into the Dark Woods
    1. The Cultivation of the Coach’s Internal Landscape
    2. Learning to Be “Twice Born”: Leaders Who Know Themselves and the Coaches They Need
    3. Leaders Who Know Themselves
    4. The Coaches They Need
    5. The Leap for the Organization
    6. Today’s Leaders Need Coaches Who Have Their Own Inner Game
    7. About This Book
    8. Who Is This Book For?
    9. Note
  6. Chapter 1 The Coach’s Internal Landscape Is Essential Development Territory
    1. Leaping Forward in the Field of Coaching
  7. Chapter 2 Foundational Works Informing Our Internal Landscape
    1. Our Scripts and Stories
    2. Neo-Analytic Perspective from Karen Horney: Life’s Enduring Stances
    3. An Attachment Theory Perspective from Bowlby and Ainsworth
    4. Kegan’s Stages of Development in Adulthood and the Self-Object Dance
    5. Horney, Bowlby, Ainsworth, and Kegan: Uncovering Our Stories and Stances
    6. Theory to Practice via Nick Petrie: Vertical and Horizontal Paths in Leadership Coaching
    7. From Here to Coaching Leaders: A Few Final Thoughts About Theory
  8. Chapter 3 Building Heat Through Cultivation of Self as Coach
    1. Cultivating Self as Coach Builds Heat for the Work
    2. A Coach’s Heat Helps the Leader Grow
    3. The Potent Combination: Heat of Coach + Leader
  9. Chapter 4 Presence
    1. Getting Present
    2. My Internal Landscape: What I’ve Learned from Deep Presence
    3. The Wisdom of Dorothy Siminovitch
    4. Is Your Presence an Intervention?
    5. Presence to the Inner Rumblings
    6. Presence to the Relationship
    7. Presence to Our Ecology
  10. Chapter 5 Empathy
    1. Empathy in Coaching
    2. Walking in a Client’s Shoes without Wearing Them
    3. Calibrating and Cultivating Your Empathy
    4. Wide-Angle Empathy
    5. Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone: Building Resilience Creates Empathy
    6. Applying Heat: Case Vignette I
  11. Chapter 6 Range of Feelings
    1. Culture Matters
    2. My Internal Landscape: Stories and Stances That Shaped My Range of Feelings
    3. Feelings Are Feelings
    4. Feelings Are Human, and So Are Leaders
    5. The Range of Feelings Inventory
    6. No One “Makes Us Feel” Anything!
    7. My Inner Landscape: What I Learned from Conscious Complaining
  12. Chapter 7 Boundaries and Systems
    1. The Necessity of Boundaries
    2. My Inner Landscape: Learning About Systems
    3. The Power of Systems
    4. Origins of Boundary Management
    5. Reducing the Urge to Rescue
    6. Systems Thinking
    7. System’s Thinking Concepts for Coaching
    8. Applying Heat: Case Vignette II
  13. Chapter 8 Embodiment
    1. Get Out of Your Head!
    2. Honing Our Felt Sense and Our Somatic Markers
    3. Somatic Markers
    4. Becoming Self-Generative
  14. Chapter 9 Courage
    1. Courage Has Many Forms
    2. Psychological Courage
    3. Cultivating Our Courage
    4. My Interior Journal: What I’ve Learned About the Power of Courage
    5. Our Courage Creates an Invitation
    6. Fear and Lethargy Thwart Courage
    7. Learning to Rock the Boat
    8. Leaders Need Courageous Coaches
    9. Turning Up the Heat and Demonstrating Courage in Our Coaching
    10. Five Truths About Courage
    11. Applying Heat: Case Vignette III
  15. Chapter 10 Supervision as a Medium for Cultivating Self as Coach
    1. My Inner Landscape: My Early Experiences in Supervision
    2. Supervision Purpose and Modalities
    3. Roles of the Coach Supervisor
    4. Formats for Supervision
    5. From My Inner Landscape: My Current Experiences in Supervision
    6. “Who You Are Is How You Coach”
    7. The Inner Supervisor in You
    8. Our Inner Supervisor Supports our Vertical Development
    9. Bigger Questions to Cultivate Your Inner Supervisor and Deepen Your Work
    10. Haven and Harbor
    11. Frameworks and Models to Grow Your Inner Supervisor
    12. Supervision as the Ethical Compass for Self as Coach
  16. Chapter 11 Self as Leader
    1. Self-Aware Leaders
    2. Self as Coach Dimensions Are Also Self as Leader Dimensions
    3. Purpose-Driven Leaders
    4. Leader’s Use of the Inner Supervisor
    5. The Inner Work of Self as Leader
  17. References
  18. About the Author
  19. Index
  20. End User License Agreement
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