The Executive Coaching Playbook
COMING FEBRUARY 2024
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A turnkey guide to a successful executive coaching practice.
The Executive Coaching Playbook offers experienced and newly minted executive coaches a complete framework for building your coaching skills and business with proven results. Beyond offering the ultimate, proven coaching theory, this book provides the tools and templates you need to set up a thriving business—from working with your executive clients to developing the business plan and marketing strategy for your brand.
With more than 30 years of experience as both an executive and a top executive coach, Dr. Nadine Greiner, along with talent development expert Becky Davis, shares her extensive knowledge, hard-won lessons, and practical advice covering everything from the first chemistry call with a potential executive client to closing out engagements with meaning and poise. In this book, you will learn how to be the exemplary, sought-after executive coach that leaves clients, sponsors, and yourself more than satisfied.
The perfect companion to Dr. Nadine's The Art of Executive Coaching, the playbook offers:
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75+ downloadable templates and techniques (including email templates, worksheets, forms, and agendas) to support and to customize for your coaching endeavors
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A four-step coaching process to adopt with your clients
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Practical advice for starting and growing your business
"Dr. Nadine's 4-step executive coaching process is a proven model that any coach can use to build or refine their practice"
What experts are saying
"I am thrilled to endorse The Executive Coaching Playbook ... this book provides a wealth of insights, tools, and templates to help you up-skill your coaching practice and meet the diverse and complex challenges executives face."
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- Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
#1 Leadership Thinker, and NYT Bestselling Author
FORWARD BY DR. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH
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For over four decades, I have had the privilege of working with leaders across every industry and geography, helping them become the best versions of themselves. It has been a rewarding and humbling experience to see the power and impact of coaching firsthand. But as any experienced executive coach will tell you, building a robust repertoire of insights, tools, and interventions takes time and effort.
That's why I am thrilled to endorse The Executive Coaching Playbook, a book that brings together proven methodology grounded in psychological theory and research. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned coach, this book provides a wealth of insights, tools, and templates to help you up-skill your coaching practice and meet the diverse and complex challenges executives face.
Dr. Nadine's 4-step executive coaching process is a proven model that any coach can use to build or refine their practice. The real-life examples and templates curated from a long career in coaching will help you build or scale your coaching practice. With over 80 templates to use in client-facing communication, coaching interventions, client practices, and to build and manage your business, you will walk away from this book armed with the tools you need to make a real difference. The focus on relationship skills throughout the book highlights the crucial importance of building, maintaining, and cultivating relationships with your clients. This is the key to building a lasting coaching practice and what defines truly great coaches!
In many ways, The Executive Coaching Playbook is the resource the industry has been needing. It will become your best guide and reference, and applying the insights and methods from this book will help set you apart in a very competitive environment.
I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to enhance their coaching practice and make a meaningful impact in their clients' lives. It is my great pleasure to welcome you to the tremendous world of executive coaching, and I urge you to keep reading and start applying the 4-step model today!
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Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.