The Mindful Coach: Seven Roles for Facilitating Leader Development, New and Revised Edition

  • 4h 49m
  • Doug Silsbee
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2010

Regardless of your level of coaching experience, you are likely to be asked to support the development of people with whom you share a professional or personal relationship.

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of his best-selling book The Mindful Coach, expert coach Doug Silsbee presents his practical Septet Model as an ideal tool for conducting coaching conversations with executives, leaders, and other professionals. The model differentiates seven roles (or Voices) that anyone in a coaching role can use when engaging in these learning conversations: Master, Partner, Investigator, Reflector, Teacher, Guide, and Contractor. In this important book, Silsbee illuminates the dynamic relationship among these seven roles and shows how to integrate them into an intelligent strategy that can be applied to any coaching conversation.

Designed as a down-to-earth resource, The Mindful Coach is filled with practical exercises and sample dialogues for learning and applying the model. Throughout the book, Silsbee's strong emphasis on self-knowledge and mindfulness integrates with the Septet Model in a transformational approach to coaching that has consistently produced significant and sustainable results for leaders in Fortune 100 companies, nonprofit organizations, business schools, education, and government.

About the Author

Doug Silsbee is a thought leader in the field of presence-based leadership development, coaching, and resilience. He coaches, teaches, and writes in Asheville, North Carolina. A master teacher, Silsbee has worked with leaders on five continents, taught top executives from corporations, nonprofits, and government, and is a frequent speaker at major conferences. He is a Master Somatic Coach with Strozzi Institute and the author of Presence-Based Coaching from Jossey-Bass.

Silsbee is an outdoor adventurer, grandfather, and owner of a carbon-neutral retreat center on 63 acres in the North Carolina mountains, where he offers courses in his groundbreaking approaches.

In this Book

  • The Mindful Coach—Seven Roles for Facilitating Leader Development, New and Revised Edition
  • Foreword
  • Preface to the New and Revised Edition
  • What Is Coaching?
  • The Being of Coaching—Mindful Service
  • Cultivating Mindfulness
  • The Seven Voices of the Coach
  • The Master
  • The Partner
  • The Investigator
  • The Reflector
  • The Teacher
  • The Guide
  • The Contractor
  • Self-Development Strategies for the Coach
  • Coaching as a Journey Toward Mastery
  • Selected Reading
  • Notes
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