An indispensable wellspring of advice from the world's foremost leadership experts 

In Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World's Greatest Coaches, a team of world-renowned executive coaches and leadership experts devlivers a revolutionary collection of contributions from 52 of the globe's leading management thinkers. Each curated piece explores a critical issue in leadership, covering topics like self-awareness, communication, interpersonal relationships, emotional intelligence, delegation, coaching, change management, transition management, execution, and career development. 

Among the 50 stories included within, readers will find inspirational and practical advice based on real-world leaders who were forced to transform their company's business model, their organization, or themselves to achieve success. Each concise, actionable chapter lets you be a fly on the wall of a successful leader demonstrating a solution to a commonly encountered leadership problem. 

Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors also provides: 

• Thorough introductions to self-examination and self-awareness, including maximizing the impact of feedback and proven techniques to ensure your leadership measures up. 
• Comprehensive explorations of communication and interpersonal relationship skills, including treatments of authenticity and cultural fluency. 
• Practical discussions of emotional intelligence, including the management of out-of-control feelings and conflict management
• In-depth examinations of change and transition management, including explorations of the first 100 days as a new leader and how to lead teams through crises. 

Perfect for managers, executives, and business leaders of all kinds, Coach Me! Your Personal Board of Directors: Leadership Advice from the World's Greatest Coaches will also earn a place in the libraries of the coaches, consultants, and other professionals who work with leaders in government, business, and the nonprofit sectors.

Jonathan Passmore, is a chartered psychologist with five degrees, including an MBA and a doctorate in occupational psychology. He also has a postgraduate certificate in coaching and two professional coaching qualifications. He has edited and writtedn 30 books, including 'Excellence in Coaching', 'Appreciative Inqiry for Change Management' and 'Top Business Psychology Model', 'Becoming a Coach: The Definitive ICF Guide' and 'The Coaches' Handbook'. He is currently professor of coaching and behavioural change at Henley Business School, SVP Coaching at CoachHub and continues to run his own small coaching practice. 

Foreward 
Aicha Evans with Mark Thompson 

Acknowledgements

About the Editors 

Introduction 
Brain Underhill, Jonathan Passmore, Marshall Goldsmith 


Self Insight 

1- Great Leaders are Confident, Connected, Committed, and Courageous 
Peter Bregman 

2- Six Interconnected Perspectives for Coaching
Philippe Rosinski 

3-Dealing with Your Demons as a Startup Founder 
Alisa Cohn

4- Crafting a Grow-Forward Development Plan 
Didem Tekay

5- In Pursuit of Identity and Inclusion
Priscilla Gill 

6- Making the Most of Feedback 
Scott Eblin 

7- A Proven Technique to Ensure your Leadership Measures Up
Lisa Ann Edwards 


Communication Skills 

8- The Highs and Lows of Communication
Hortense Le Gentil

9- How to Develop the Authentic Leader in You 
Nicole Heimann

10- The Culturally Fluent Leader: When Leading Across Differences, Your Style May Need to Change
Jane Hyun 


Interpersonal Relationships 

11- The Five Basic Needs of Employees 
Christopher Rauen 

12- Steve: The Smartest Guy in the Room
Philippe Grall

13- How Powerful Leaders Create Safety: View from Both Sides of the Desk 
Carol Kauffman

14- How 'Face' Can Help You Manage Up 
Maya Hu-Chan 

15- The Payoff from Listening 
Frank Wagner 

16-The Neccessary Reckoning of Corporate America 
Terry Jackson 


Emotional Intelligence 

17- Managing Our Out of Control Feelings 
Jonathan Passmore 

18- How to Deal with Deeper, Coaching-Resistant Behaviors 
Ron Carucci

19- Coaching for Conflict Management 
Gary Wang 

20- The Calvary Isn't Coming
Caroline Stokes 


Empowering Others/Delegation

21- The Importance of Leadership Agility 
Brenda Bence 

22- Coaching Perfectionists
Sally Helgesen 

23- Coaching an Executive Client out of Micromangagement 
Tom Kolditz

24- Establishing Overwhelming Presence as a Managaing Director 
Takahiro Honda 

25- Letting Go: One Founder's Journey from Doing to Dreaming 
Magdalena Mook 


Coaching Others

26- Motivating Others to Learn and Change 
Richard Boyatzis 

27- The Leader as Coach 
Lance Secretan 

28- The Five Most Important Qualities in Coaching Your Employees 
Howard Morgan and Ben Croft 

29- The S-Curve of Learning 
Whitney Johnson 


Managing Change 

30- Leading in Times of Change 
Atchara Juicharern 

31- Coaching the Team Leader 
Peter Hawkins 

32- Coaching and Culture Transformations for Sustainable Results 
Peter Chee and Aaron Ngui 

33- Agile Servant Leadership is Not Fluffy 
Jennifer Paylor 

34- Leading Teams Through Crisis
Karen Wu 

35- Letting Go of Certainty 
David Clutterbuck 


Transition Management

36- Your First 100 Days 
Abdallah Aljurf 

37- Managing Self Doubt After a Promotion 
Nihar Chhaya

38- Self as Leader 
Pamela McLean 

39- Executive Transition
Cathleen Wu 


Execution

40- Objectives with Key Results
Patti Phillips 

41- Identifying and Approaching Different Types of Problems
Nankhonde van den Broek 

42- A Leader's Courage for a Team's Success
Oleg Konovalov

43- The Pause for Progress
Bill Carrier 

44- There is no such thing as work/life balance 
Brian Underhill

45- The Leadership Success Definition Should Include Impact (and Maybe ROI)
Jack Phillips 


Career Development 

46- From C-Suite to CEO: How to get promoted and survive the leap
Mark Thompson

47- Personal Leadership Brand: How to Take Control of How You "Show Up"
Mongezi Makhalima

48- Decision Making: Cutting Through the Fog of Shoulds and Fears 
Marcia Reynolds 

49- David Peterson 


Further Resources

Your Board of Directors: Contributor Biographies