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The Sherpa Guide
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The Sherpa Guide

Process-Driven Executive Coaching

Thomson South-Western, 2005 plus...

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Recommendation

Pick up any trendy publication and you’re likely to see advertisements for life coaches and business coaches – individuals who promise to lead executives through positive, dramatic personal and professional changes. The trouble is that anyone can hang out a shingle and claim to be a career coach. For a systematic approach, Brenda Corbett and Judith Colemon, both experienced senior managers, suggest a structured, measurable process that coaches can use with their clients. Their system – which is named after the Sherpas, the Nepalese mountaineers who guide climbers up Mt. Everest – is built on a set of specific techniques for helping executives reach the next level in their trek up the career mountain. Business people who wonder if they want coaching will relate to the book’s numerous nicely told, short case histories, plus its instructions and step-by-step solutions. The book also provides coaches with tools, worksheets and sample client-journal pages. If you want to gain a foothold in executive coaching, getAbstract highly recommends that you start climbing – and stash a copy of this book in your backpack.

Take-Aways

  • Sir Edmund Hilary would never have made it up to the top of Mount Everest without the aid of his Sherpa guide, Tensing Norgay.
  • Like Sherpas, executive coaches should offer advice, support and encouragement.
  • The structured Sherpa coaching process has six phases covered in 12 sessions: “taking stock, global view, destination, charting the course, agenda and summit.”

About the Authors

Brenda Corbett lectures and writes about leadership development. Judith Colemon has been an image consultant, recruiter, business owner and CEO for start-ups and established companies.


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    A. B. 1 decade ago
    This statement is false - "No standards or certifications exist." Standards/competencies and certification criteria for the coaching profession have been established by the International Coach Federation (ICF). Although not yet mandatory, they do exist.

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