Executive Coaching: A Practitioner's Guide to Creating Excellence(Response Books)

Executive Coaching is a high-value learning and development opportunity offered to critical senior executives. Its objective is to help them make strategic shifts in their professions, careers and lives. This book is an in-depth exploration of this transformational practice. Executive Coaching: A Practitioner's Guide to Creating Excellence discusses the process beginning from the initial contact to building relationship and mutual understanding, taking the required precautions and maximizing output. The author has detailed the theoretical approaches to Executive Coaching; the competencies, capabilities and skills required to be an effective executive coach; and the tools and techniques used in the process. The book is an invitation to getting an inside look at Executive Coaching. It will serve as a guide to building a positive coaching culture in organizations and to help the top management in getting the best out of their workforce.

About the Author :
Dr Sunil Unny Guptan is a professor, mentor, life and executive coach, author, entrepreneur, motivational speaker, corporate educator, journalist and social thinker. He is based out of Hyderabad, India. He now heads Touching Lives, an initiative to make a significant difference in the lives of people. He is also Director of Emotions Toolbox Pvt Ltd, focusing on leveraging technology platforms to promote healthy social and personal relationships, emotional health and psychological wellness. He is a mentor and executive coach to several CEOs and top executives, and a popular speaker and consultant in India and other geographies. He has been teaching at IIMA for the past one and a half decade, and is also Adjunct Professor of OB & HRM at IIM Udaipur. He is a Visiting Faculty at Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad and Faculty Resource of the Duke Corporate Education's Global Learning Resource Network. His book Mentoring was released as a part of the classics series in 2013 (first edition 2006) and Executive Coaching in November 2011, both published by SAGE. He has also co-authored Indian Management, released in 1991. He has written over 80 journalistic and popular articles in various magazines and newspapers on subjects ranging from television and social processes to medical sciences and wildlife. He has also written and produced several radio and educational television programmes. He has a PhD in business management, a master's degree in communication and journalism, and graduated with an honours degree in chemistry from Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He has also trained at the School of Public Policy in the University of Birmingham, UK, on a British Council Fellowship. He focuses now in giving people's life and career a positive makeover. He invests his personal time in counselling and helping people cope with and repair strained relationships and troubled lives. You can connect with him at mentor@touchinglives.co.in.

Review :
A must read for executive coaches.--The Times of India The author] infuses new insights in the techniques employed in executive coaching... [Thereby] equipping the trainers with additional model upgraded skills in the training so that corporate professionals exposed to this new pedagogy become competent enough to choose the right strategic shift in their professional careers.--Global Business This anthology of well-informed and convincingly argued essays...provide valuable reference material regarding and insights into, the Indian civlilization's essence, even as it engages with other socio-cultural-political entities.--The Financial World Valuable Insights for the organization builders. --The Business Line