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Advance Praise
‘In Enterprise-wide Coaching: The Ten Commandments, John Hoover
continues to advocate applying the craft of coaching through an
organizational lens to maximize the value and benefits of coaching
for both Your client leaders being coached and the entire enter-
prise. Dr Hoover advocates and explains how taking a strategic
approach to coaching executives requires a systems perspec-
tive. John’s book will prepare executive coaches and those who
manage coaching functions in organizations to use the 11 Core
Competencies of the International Coach Federation (ICF) to align
what individual leaders do best with what their organizations
need most—all in a cultural context that will ensure coaching
consistency and continuity wherever in the world the coaching
takes place’.
—Damian Goldvarg PhD, Master Certified Coach (MCC),
Certified Speaker Professional (CSP)
President, The Goldvarg Consulting Group, Inc.
Former Global President (2013 and 2014), International
Coach Federation
‘John Hoover and Enterprise-wide Coaching: The Ten Commandments
are planting a flag in the ground for taking a systems approach to
coaching across global enterprises to strengthen the fabric of their
leadership tapestries’.
—Paulette Rao, MCC, Board Certified Coach (BCC)
Author of Transformational Coaching: Shifting Mindsets for Sustainable
Change and Conscious Marketing: Marketing from the Inside Out
‘Implementing leadership coaching interventions in corporations
requires large investment in terms of money and time for planning,
execution and monitoring. However, the desired outcome from
such coaching engagements often does not translate into results at
the desired level since the organization could not derive significant
benefits from its large investment. The reasons could be many,
and hence it cannot be generalized in defining critical success
factors for such engagements for different types of organizations.
However, Dr John Hoover’s latest book Enterprise-wide Coaching: The
Ten Commandments rightly identifies the missing link. On the basis
of his vast experience in organizational transformation through
executive coaching, along with a strong academic background
in behavioural science and experience of cutting-edge practices
in human resource functions, Dr Hoover strongly advocates
making the organization a co-client in coaching engagements to
ensure the voices of both the leader and the organization are heard
and honoured in coaching engagements. This book is a great resource
for organizations with a strong belief that leadership coaching is
not a one-off event but needs to be conducted enterprise-wide.
I am confident that the reader of this book will gain new insights
on how to effectively deploy coaching throughout the enterprise
as well as challenge some of the dysfunctional processes’.
—Dr Sraban Mukherjee, Certified Professional Co-Active
Coach (CPCC), Professional Certified Coach (PCC)
Author of Corporate Coaching: The Essential Guide and Competency
Mapping for Superior Results: Getting Maximum from Your Talent
‘Innovation is both essential and messy. Disruptive professional
coaching for leaders inside organizational systems is innovation.
Dr Hoover’s book cogently describes the reason coaching is hard
to be explicitly clear about as a standalone professional practice.
A focus on the nature of human development for leaders means
we must consider the systemic influences upon an individual
leader and his or her teams. The organization is the first client, the
individual leader candidate for coaching is the second client and
the system-wide relationships for that leader are the third client.
The discipline of coaching is rigorous and sustaining the role of
a coach requires tenacity rather than presuming to know more
than the leader of the organizational system about what serves
the strategy and performance outcomes best. This book provides
clarity about the purpose, the scope and the process of coach-
ing partnerships when effective, as well as a direct pathway for
organizational leaders to create a generative partnership with
dedicated and professional practitioners’.
—Janet Harvey, MA, MCC, Accredited
Coaching Supervisor (ACS)
Former Global President of International Coach
Federation and Founder of Invite Change
‘Contextual coaching clearly positions the organization and
the individual as co-clients with equal responsibilities as well
as potential gains. In an increasingly complex world, this
collaborative approach most efficiently maximizes the benefits of
a coaching engagement and provides a framework for an ethical
partnership with the coaching provider. Dr Hoover’s model
offers his substantive, well-grounded and systemic approach in
straightforward language with clear reasoning and specific tools’.
—Francine Campone, EdD, MCC
Director, Evidence-Based Coaching, Fielding Graduate
University and Principal, F. Campone Coaching & Consulting
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