This book updates and expands the first edition by revising existing chapter contributions, adding contributions to reflect changes in practice, offering well-researched best practices, and providing additional guidance and tools from the greatest leadership coaches from around the world. Where the first edition did a great job of offering initial thoughts on the nascent field of coaching leaders, this new edition not only brings the field up to date, it shares much-needed "best practices" both emerging and well-known practitioners. In addition to expanding the foundation of research and theory by top thinkers from the first book -- including Schien, Ulrich, and Hersey, this book will feature a lot more of "what works" and "what doesn't." In addition, each chapter will address a proven application, offer key principles of practice, as well as key learning points.

In addition to revising and updating key chapters from the original, this new edition covers new concepts, such as:

• Addresses reasons for the rise of leadership coaching .
  
• Discusses who a coach should be to clients.
  
• Shows when coaching is necessary and when it will help the most.
  
• Explains what the different coaching styles are and what the various practices entail.
  
• Shows how coaching applies in different situations in businesses today.
  
• Describes how to engage HR professionals in the process.
  
• Demonstrates how to manage leadership coaching programs.
  
• Illustrates how to make leadership coaching align with key OD values, such as dignity and collaboration.
  
• Shows how to articulate the Return on Investment conversation between HR and Finance
  
• Shows in great detail how to make Process Consultation work in leadership coaching.