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Summary: For the Serious Coach
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This is a great book to study if you are serious about improving your own coaching skills. Bob has done an elegant job of explaining some sophisticated and subtle ideas in clear, expressive terms that illuminate the reader. His ideas on personal transformation and stewardship point the way for the high-performance coach.
Mark Kelly, coauthor of MASTERING TEAMLEADERSHIP: 7 ESSENTIAL COACHING SKILLS
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Summary: Insightful Coaching
Review: An insightful account of the true meaning of coaching that goes to the heart of building and reliving the human spirit into organizaions that is quite amiss in today's corporate world.
By honing in on true spirit of community building , Hargrove has given the concept of stewardship its real place in today's material and self-interest based society.
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Summary: An Excellent Guide Through the Field
Review: Coaching has become a great buzz word. Everyone has or is a coach. I've wondered for years what coaching is really about. And now I understand. Any good professional - therapist, consultant,lawyer, clergyman, doctor, accountant - must spend part of their time moving clients from A to B. "Masterful Coaching" let's you know how to do that in a thoughtful and thorough way. Thank you Robert. PS: Though many people don't like Werner Erhardt the person, the organization he built, and his marketing/sales tactics let's not throw away the fundamental soundness of the tools he shared.
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Summary: Fantastic revision of an already great book!
Review: I found Hargrove's book inspiring, insightful, and useful. I had read his first book - which was pivotal for me in creating my own coaching business-- and have found that he has taken this work to another level-a very compelling, as well as easy read. The two parts that I found most applicable to my own coaching clients were his step-by-step approach to coaching executives and the part on creating a "laboratory" that fosters collaboration within a group. I was able to bring these principles to a client who was wowed by what we were able to generate for her business. I would recommend this book to any coach, internal and external to a company, as well as to any leader who wants to create an "impossible future."
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Summary: Transformational Coaching with the Enneagram
Review: In his book, Masterful Coaching, Robert Hargrove distinguishes between "incremental learning" (single-loop), "reframing" (double-loop learning), and "transformational learning" (triple-loop). These distinctions (based on the original work of Gregory Bateson, and extended by Chris Argyris and Peter Senge) are important in business settings. Most development work with executives takes place at the incremental level (helping them to embody new skills and capabilities), sometimes at the level of reframing (challenging them to reshape their patterns of thinking), but seldom at the transformational level (creating a shift in context or point of view about themselves--a process I have referred to elsewhere as "stepping into a parallel universe"). My approach to working in organizations has been to incorporate the Enneagram with existing organization development, change, and leadership theory and practice. In consulting with and creating development plans for hundreds of executives, and working with numerous teams in organizations, I've had the advantage of observing all nine Enneagram types in a variety of business settings. And I have found the Enneagram to be the most powerful system for moving my clients to the level of reframing and sometimes to the transformational level.
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Summary: Every coach should read this book!
Review: In the last ten years since I started coaching managers and leaders, I have read almost everything out there on the subject. This book stands out! The distinctions Hargrove makes about coaching provide clarity, while being very useable and transferable to others. He also writes in a very readable style, and balances profundity and humor to get his points across. Some points that I found especially useful were: How to generate a powerful coaching relationship by clarifying what each person needs to bring to the party. I found this extremely helpful in re-igniting an ebbing coaching relationship. Hargrove writes that a leader needs to "be the source" of their impossible future or what it is that they want to create. He shows how to coach someone to do this. Thinking drives behavior. Hargrove provides clarity and examples on how to coach people in a more profound and deeper way than the usual tips and techniques that novice coaches give. Hargrove also writes about getting feedback for the coaching client by doing interviews rather than using the typical 360 degree feedback forms. He says, "If more than one person calls you a horse, saddle up!" I recommend this book to coaches, managers and leaders who want to up the level of their game.
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Summary: Masterful!
Review: Masterful coaching - just another book on coaching? And what's masterful about it? Truly, this is not a book to read, its a book to study. The book reaches far beyond usual coaching-techniques. Hargrove shows the path to true, honest, efficient coaching, not stopping at predictable goals, but supporting people or organizations to go for a future that was previously called "impossible!". And here is where the masterful part begins: Hargrove calls for new standards. He calls for total, full-hearted commitment in the success for the coachee. The book "trains the trainer" on a step-by-step basis, shows how to structure the coaching from the start, guides around traps, digs deeply into do's and don'ts, brings up surprising distinctions. Very inspiring! Hargrove mentions many examples. He shares his broad knowledge and experience with others and thus proves that he is a Masterful Coach! Great book, I learned a lot!! Hans Peter Hartmann, Managing Director Avi Agency, Illnau/Switzerland
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Summary: Masterful!
Review: Masterful coaching - just another book on coaching? And what's masterful about it? Truly, this is not a book to read, its a book to study. The book reaches far beyond usual coaching-techniques. Hargrove shows the path to true, honest, efficient coaching, not stopping at predictable goals, but supporting people or organizations to go for a future that was previously called "impossible!". And here is where the masterful part begins: Hargrove calls for new standards. He calls for total, full-hearted commitment in the success for the coachee. The book "trains the trainer" on a step-by-step basis, shows how to structure the coaching from the start, guides around traps, digs deeply into do's and don'ts, brings up surprising distinctions. Very inspiring! Hargrove mentions many examples. He shares his broad knowledge and experience with others and thus proves that he is a Masterful Coach! Great book, I learned a lot!! Hans Peter Hartmann, Managing Director Avi Agency, Illnau/Switzerland
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Summary: This Book Makes A Difference
Review: Mr. Hargrove has made the concept of "transformational learning" understandable in this well written and concise text. Masterful Coaching describes a process of thinking and coaching that leads to "being" versus "doing". As a facilitator for a company that delivers adventure-based outdoor team building seminars, I was looking for a guide to help me make a real difference for my corporate clients; this book provides a structure for coaching that can have a profound and lasting impact. My personal experience of participating in "transformational learning" seminars delivered by the Landmark Education Corporation, leads me to suggest that the maximum value of this book can be realized not just by reading, but by actually participating in a seminar or training program that gives one access to a trained "transformation coach". It was only after experiencing the distinctions of transformational learning on a personal level that I became effective at coaching others in transformation.
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Summary: This Book Makes A Difference
Review: Mr. Hargrove has made the concept of "transformational learning" understandable in this well written and concise text. Masterful Coaching describes a process of thinking and coaching that leads to "being" versus "doing". As a facilitator for a company that delivers adventure-based outdoor team building seminars, I was looking for a guide to help me make a real difference for my corporate clients; this book provides a structure for coaching that can have a profound and lasting impact. My personal experience of participating in "transformational learning" seminars delivered by the Landmark Education Corporation, leads me to suggest that the maximum value of this book can be realized not just by reading, but by actually participating in a seminar or training program that gives one access to a trained "transformation coach". It was only after experiencing the distinctions of transformational learning on a personal level that I became effective at coaching others in transformation.
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