Institute of Coaching - Executive Coaching

Podcast: Coaching Optimal Teams with Amy Edmondson, PhD

Stephenie Girard — Thu, 05 Feb 2015 17:10:03 +0000

Author:

Edmondson, Amy

Summary:

In this podcast, Amy Edmondson, PhD, Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School addresses the latest research and best practices for coaching leaders on how to accelerate performance and learn "on the fly" in a world of constant change.

Content Type:

Podcast

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching

Resource Topics:

Team Coaching, Teaming, Teamwork, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching

Leader As Coach: Strategies for Coaching & Developing Others

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Peterson, David

Summary:

Leader As Coach' is a straight-forward, practical book that can help you lead your people and your organization to greater success.

The tips and practices in Leader As Coach will enable you to sharpen your coaching skills so that you can attract and retain the talent you need for success, foster growth in others, provide effective feedback, orchestrate learning opportunities, and groom high-potential performers. After all, your people are your most important asset.

Within these pages you’ll find:
--Five high-impact strategies for effective coaching.
--Useful insights on how to deal with resistance and motivate others.
--Hundreds of tips and action steps to make you a better coach.

Content Type:

Book Summary

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching

Resource Topics:

Leadership Coaching, Executive Coaching

Resource Content Type:

Book

Development First Workbook: Creating Your Own Learning Plan

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Peterson, David

Summary:

Use this handy workbook to create and implement a personal learning plan based on the Development FIRST® model.

Content Type:

Book Summary

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching, Life Coaching

Resource Topics:

Leadership Coaching, Executive Coaching, Development

Resource Content Type:

Book

Communication Tool #2- Feedback Planning Worksheet

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Stern, Lew

Summary:

When people give feedback is often held back or given in the heat of the moment. Other times negative feelings you have about what someone you work with does are stored up over time until the feedback comes out to a degree that is way out of proportion to the current situation.

Most people are less than mindful to actually decide the purpose of giving feedback. If they decide that it would be helpful to do so, they often would benefit from taking the time to plan the “who, what, how, and when” of giving the feedback.

The following Worksheet serves as a guide for a coach to work with a client to be more mindful when they have feelings about what someone has done or is doing and they would like that person to do something different.

Article Content:

The attached article serves as a guide for a coach to work with a client to be more mindful when they have feelings about what someone has done or is doing and they would like that person to do something different.

Content Type:

Article

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching

Resource Topics:

Internal/Organizational, Coaching Tools, Executive Coaching

Resource Content Type:

Article

Communication Tool #4 - Video Coaching Process Guide

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Stern, Lew

Summary:

Video coaching is a way of helping individuals see and hear themselves as others see them. In a supportive, private environment, the individual works with the coach to identify areas for improvement such as: communication, presentation, style, body language, listening, influence, trust building, assertiveness, conflict management, giving feedback, and inspirational leadership. They interact with the coach and others in controlled situations to gain self-awareness of the messages they give to others through their words, tone and inflection, and non-verbal language. Short (typically three-minute) videotape recordings are made and immediately played back to the person being coached for the person to see him or herself as others would. This article goes into the process and provides a table of criteria for self-observation.

Content Type:

Article

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching

Resource Topics:

Executive Coaching, Client Engagement, Coaching Tools

Resource Content Type:

Article

Strategic Coaching Tool #2 - Values, Vision, Mission, and Strategy

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Stern, Lew

Summary:

There are many views and definitions for terms used in strategic planning. The following is one set of definitions you can use to demystify the complexity of these terms and simplify and differentiate them for the leaders you coach. The following worksheet provides twelve basic questions for your clients to answer with you and with the people they lead to begin to develop their own values, vision, mission and strategy.

Content Type:

Article

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership

Resource Topics:

Executive Coaching, Client Engagement, Coaching Tools

Resource Content Type:

Article

Strategic Coaching Tool #4 - Strategy Implementation

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Stern, Lew

Summary:

This article provides strategic coaching tools that focus on: Strategy Implementation: Objectives, Approaches, and Initiatives

Content Type:

Article

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership

Resource Topics:

Coaching Tools, Client Engagement, Executive Coaching

Resource Content Type:

Article

Webinar: Friction Sparks Learning with David Peterson, PhD

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Peterson, David

Summary:

In this webinar, David Peterson, PhD, Director of Leadership and Coaching at Google, delivers reprise of his presentation made at our 2014 Institute of Coaching Leadership Forum held at the Harvard Club in New York City

Content Type:

Video

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching

Resource Topics:

Executive Coaching, Adult Development, Webinar

Resource Content Type:

Webinar

MasterClass: The Journey from Good to Great with David Peterson - Part II

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Summary:

Thank you for joining us for our two-part MasterClass series, MasterClass: The Journey from Good to Great with David Peterson featuring his illuminating work. David is one of America’s foremost coaches and we appreciate his interest in sharing his insights on coaching with us. David is currently Google’s Director of Leadership and Coaching after many years as Senior Vice President and practice leader for PDI Ninth House worldwide coaching and leadership development services. His classic book, Leader As Coach: Strategies for Coaching and Developing Others, with Mary Dee Hicks has sold over 100,000 copies along with his book Development First: Strategies for Self Development. Moving deeper into the work of David Peterson, we share his developmental pipeline, more video snippets, another chapter from a book on executive coaching, and a special article on good to great coaching. You may also wish to enjoy his podcasts.

MasterClass: The Journey from Good to Great with David Peterson - Part II includes:

Video Coaching Demonstration, filmed at the Coaching in Leadership and Medicine Conference at Harvard.
More Institute interviews on coaching, a look at coaching vs. therapy
Interview with David by Carol Kauffman and Tatiana Bachkirova published in Coaching: An International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice
Exective Coaching:& A Critical Review and Recommendations for Advancing Practice
Great moments with David, and how they have changed my coaching.

Thank you for joining us for MasterClasses featuring the work of David Peterson. If you haven't already please see the first in this two-part series, MasterClass: The Journey from Good to Great with David Peterson - Part I.

Watch as David Peterson, PhD discusses coaching vs therapy.

Article Content:

More about David Peterson:

In early 2011, David joined Google, Inc., as Director, Leadership and Coaching, where he provides coaching to senior leaders, oversees internal and external coaching programs, and supports a range of executive development and organizational learning programs. Previously, he served as senior vice president and practice leader for PDI Ninth House’s worldwide coaching and leadership development services. His consulting work with PDI NH focused on coaching for senior executives in Global 100 companies, as well as helping organizations design their own coaching and leadership development programs. His clients included Target, Genentech, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Levi Strauss, Stanford University, Chevron, Shell, and Wal-Mart. He is the author and co-author of numerous articles and two best-selling books, Leader As Coach and Development FIRST: Strategies for Self-Development. Most recently he authored the chapter on Executive Coaching for the APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology.

David is a frequent speaker at conferences on coaching, leadership development, and organizational learning. He has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Time, CFO, Financial Executive, Working Woman, Training, Personnel Journal, Human Resources Executive, HR Magazine, Washington Post, and USA Today.?

A recent history of the field of coaching listed David as one of the primary influencers in the field of coaching, both for his early influence on the emergence of executive coaching in the 1980s, and for continuing to shape the field as someone "on the cutting edge of the profession, doing and saying surprising and thought-provoking things.”

A Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Consulting Psychology, and SIOP, he received his Ph.D. in industrial/organizational and counseling psychology from the University of Minnesota. David lives in San Francisco, with wife Alexis Shoemate and an adorable Tibetan Terrier named Pinot.

Content Type:

Premium Resource Type

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching, Life Coaching

Resource Topics:

Executive Coaching, Leadership Coaching

MasterClass: Coaching Toward the Positive with Richard Boyatzis - Part II

Danad t Deek — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 05:56:48 +0000

Author:

Summary:

This MasterClass is a continuation of MasterClass: Coaching Toward the Positive with Richard Boyatzis - Part I and includes (Premium Content and under Related Resources):

Richard’s award-winning paper for the Academy of Management in its entirety. Carol Kauffman adds a running commentary linking the research to our coaching practice and with ways we can articulate what we do and why it works. We see this as the core of evidence-based marketing.
The complete video presentation of Richard's keynote presentation from the 2011 Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference sponsored by Harvard Medical School including his powerpoint slides.
Additional video interviews and some book reading.

Article Content:

Academy of Management Journal Article

Learn about the neuroscience behind leadership effectiveness in the article, Developing Sustainable Leaders Through Coaching and Compassion.

Richard Boyatzis Keynote Presentation 2011

Coaching in Leadership and Healthcare Conference, sponsored by Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital and the Institute of Coaching.

Watch the video: Appreciative Coaching: From Science to Action.

Content Type:

Premium Resource Type

Coaching Specialty:

Leadership, Internal/Organizational Coaching

Resource Topics:

Leadership Coaching, Executive Coaching, Coaching with Compassion

Institute Premium Resources:

MasterClasses