This book addresses multiple stakeholders of coaching. These include the coach, the client, the sponsor (the organization) and the leaders. If you are interested in being a coach or are a practicing coach, you would find this book extremely useful. If you are someone who wants to hire a coach and experience coaching, this book will show you what to expect and how the coaching happens. If you are a professional who would like to know more about coaching and use this in your organization, this can be a handy guide. And, if you are someone who would like increase your effectiveness then the pages of this book have much to offer you!

Coaching-The Art of Developing Leaders dwells on how:

· A strong Vibrant workplace where leaders engage both the hearts and the minds of individuals and teams leads to high performance results.

· Each Leader could use the principles of Coaching to empower, support and unleash the potential of his people.

· Coaching could help create a leadership pipeline faster, support development of high potential employees and how to use coaching as post training support to increase the effectiveness of training interventions.

· To Build yourself as a coach, the steps and tools needed along with the conceptual frameworks and content that you need to kick start your coaching practice.

· To chose the right coach for yourself, what to expect and how coaching could help you to be more effective as a leader.

Coaching for Leadership Development

· Team or Group Coaching

· Managing Expectations

· Types of Clients

Who Can Be A Coach?

· Self-knowledge, Authenticity and Congruence

What is Coaching

· As Old as Human Race

· ‘Coach is Born’ with the ‘Carriage of Kocs’

· Coaching Makes You What You Want To Be

· When and Why Do People Require Coaching

· Requisites for A Successful Coaching Relationship

· Historical Perspectives and Influencers

· How is Coaching Different from Other Disciplines?

Coaching Paradigms

· Presence-based Coaching

· Ontological Coaching

· Integral Coaching

· Neuro-linguistic Programming Coaching

· Gestalt Coaching

· Psychodynamic Coaching

· Transpersonal Coaching

· Appreciative Coaching

Types of Coaching

· Facilitative Coaching

· Developmental Coaching

· Personal/Life Coaching

· Career Coaching

· Group Coaching

· Performance Coaching

· Relationship Coaching

· Targeted Behavioral Coaching

· Legacy Coaching

Executive Coaching

· Executive Coaching in the Indian Context

· Who Can Be A Coach?

· Competencies Needed in A Client

· Coaching Skills

ODA Coaching Model

· Systems perspective

· Content, Process and Context

· Integral Model

· Three Levels of Learning

· ODA Coaching Model

· Coaching and ODA

· Coaching Interventions

Leader as A Coach

· Complex Systems

· Insights into What Motivates People

· Leadership Challenges in the Emerging Economies

· Major Characteristics

Trends and Future Possibilities

· Defining Coaching

· Understanding the Coaching Context in Indian Organizations

· Who is Sponsoring Coaching in Indian Organizations?

· How is Coaching Effectiveness Measured?

· Survey Questions

· The Coach’s Perspective

· How Is Executive Coaching Relevant in the Indian Cultural Context

· Impact of Indian Cultural Ethos on Coaching

· What Coaching Crystallizes into the Indian Corporate Context?

Toolkit for A Coach

· The Coaching Agreement

· Personal Information Fact Sheet

· Wheel of Life

· Self-Discovery Form

· Coaching Session Note Sheet

· Goal Planning Sheet

· Habits I Want to Build/Reinforce

· Value-based Decision Framework

· Assessments

· Powerful Questions

· A Sample 360-degree Questionnaire

About the Author
Santhosh Babu is the founder Managing Director of ODA (Organisation Development Alternatives Consultancy Pvt. Ltd.). Born and raised in Thrissur