Supercharging Boards
and Leaders for
High-Stakes Success
Supercharging Boards
and Leaders for
High-Stakes Success
In COACHED TO LEAD: How to Achieve Extraordinary Results with an Executive Coach, renowned CEO coach Susan Battley offers step-by-step advice on how to obtain the same bottom-line benefits that world-class leaders get from executive coaching.
Filled with engaging real-life cases, exclusive CEO interviews, and handy checklists and sample documents, COACHED TO LEAD will help anyone who considers working with a professional coach to make smart decisions that maximize resources and results.
The first consumer’s guide to executive coaching, COACHED TO LEAD is an indispensable resource for business executives, technical professionals, entrepreneurs and business owners, supervisors, human resource managers, and executive and business coaches.
“With professional precision, Battley has opened up issues involved in executive coaching and creates a book of answers that can improve the counseling of leaders in any industry…. She offers a coaching model and tools that can promote deep changes and positively influence any executive and his or her organization’s performance.”
SOUNDVIEW EXECUTIVE BOOK SUMMARIES, August 2006
“Coached to Lead is a flight plan for high-altitude success. Battley distills her years as a trusted CEO adviser into performance-boosting strategies and solutions. Whether you are a top executive, a rising star, or a coach yourself, don’t take off without this book.”
HOWARD PUTNAM, former CEO, Southwest Airlines
“This book has a high ‘reality quotient’ in terms of practical application and business impact. Battley brings a refreshing genuineness to explaining how leaders think and act. Insightful and results-oriented.”
BRENDAN O’HALLORAN, vice-chair, USA, TD Securities
“Highly recommended to executives at the front end of a coaching engagement, to coaches, and to HR procurers and generalists. In quite a few places I found myself saying, ‘That’s a good idea’ or ‘That’s a good checklist for a client or a coach to go through.’ This book will be a big hit in the marketplace. I wish I’d written it!”
RANDALL P. WHITE, Ph.D., The Executive Development Group and Duke University
“Coached to Lead will turn cynics and skeptics of coaching into believers and supporters through its evidence-based approach and specific examples. It’s a must read for anyone considering coaching as a career booster – and for coaches too. If you have questions, this book has answers. It’s destined to win acclaim as the complete client primer on executive coaching.”
LAWRENCE C. BASSETT, president, Bassett Consulting Group, and senior lecturer, New York Medical College
“If you have ever considered retaining an executive coach for yourself or someone else, Susan Battley’s book will guide you to winning results. It’s a must read.”
GEORGE MORRISEY, author, Morrisey on Planning series
“After 25 years in management at RCA and FedEx I came to realize how important coaching is in developing and unleashing one’s leadership potential. I highly recommend this book to fellow managers.”
MADAN BIRLA, author, FedEx Delivers