Are you ready for the corner office? Insights from 25 executive coaching experiences - Mohapatra, Pradipta K. (SAGE Response, 2014)
Introduction; SECTION A: The Corner Office Seen through the Keyhole of Executive Coaching; 1 -- Executive Coaching in the Indian Context; 2 -- The Human Side of Leader Development; SECTION B -- Enhancing Emotional Intelligence; 3 -- The Importance of the Emotional Side of Your Personality; 4 -- When the Flaw Turns Fatal; 5 -- Low Self-Esteem Can Derail aLeader's Career; SECTION C -- Shaping Attitudes and Beliefs; 6 -- Transporting the WinningAttitude; 7 -- What Makes People Miserable
8 -- Executives Succeed When They Refuse to Become Victims of Their Circumstances; 9 -- Celebrating the Feminine Side of a Woman's Leadership Style; SECTION D -- Developing New Skills, Styles and Behaviours; 10 -- Catching Up on Missed Managerial Learning Milestones; 11 -- Developing This Mysterious Thing Called Executive Presence; 12 -- Growing a Business through Disciplined Leadership; 13 -- Helping the Chosen One Claim His Succession Space; SECTION E -- Acquiring Global Competencies; 14 -- When Indian Executives Must Measure up to Global Benchmarks
15 -- It Takes Innovation and Effort to Crack the Competency Code; SECTION F: Managing Career Transitions; 16 -- Waking Up and Smelling the Coffee; 17 -- The Anxiety of Not Having a Position of Authority; 18 -- Revisiting Functional Leadership; 19 -- The Need for a Coach-Mentor Partnership to Facilitate Radical Career Shift; SECTION G -- Grappling with Emerging Executive and Entrepreneurial Agendas; 20 -- When a Young EntrepreneurHas to Make a Life-AlteringDecision; 21 -- Coaching Principles Applied to Peer to Peer Business Mentoring; 22 -- The Importance of a Thinking Partner
SECTION H -- Enhancing Coaching Effectiveness; 23 -- The Power of Public Accountability in Influencing Change; 24 -- It Takes Trust, Time and Team Work to Succeed; 25 -- The Pygmalion Effect in Coaching; An Introduction to Typical Coaching Processes and Some of the Frequently Used Terms; Brief Profile of Our Case Contributors
This book is a collection of 25 inspiring stories about the unique and personal developmental journey of 25 senior leaders towards the corner office. Seen through the eyes of their Executive Coaches, each of these stories tell us how they found answers to critical questions such as 'Am I ready for it?', 'How do I prepare to get there?', 'How do I learn to succeed once I get there and how can I enjoy the journey while I am at it?' The term 'corner office' is really a metaphor for anything significant that these leaders wanted to achieve in their professional careers and personal lives. This uniq