Erik de Haan is the Director of Ashridge's Centre for Coaching and Professor of Organisation Development at the VU University Amsterdam and was previously a consultant, providing one-to-one coaching for executives and consultants, including career counselling. Prior to coming to Ashridge in 2002, he acquired ten years of consulting experience with firms including Aegon, BP, Heineken, Nike, Credit Suisse First Boston, Qualcomm and Vodafone. Erik is Programme Director of AMEC, Ashridge's MSc in Executive Coaching and ACOS, Ashridge's Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Coaching & Organisation-Development Supervision. Erik has published more than a hundred professional articles and nine books in several languages. He is a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Philosophy of Management and for the Dutch Journal of Coaching. ashridge.org.uk/erikdehaan

Yvonne Burger is Professor of Organisational Culture, Communication and Leadership at the VU University Amsterdam. She is Program Director of the postgraduate program Executive Coaching. She works also as an independent consultant and executive coach and is specialised in individual, team and organisational development. Yvonne is a widely published author and has worked for several management-consulting firms like Touche Ross International and the Twynstra Group in The Netherlands. Also she was Dean of Sioo Business School in The Netherlands Yvonne is member of the editorial board of several journals in the Netherlands and Academic Fellow of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes. yvonneburger.nl

A rigorous yet compact guide to executive coaching that comprehensively covers approaches, techniques and behaviors, a practical framework with technical appendices and with case studies throughout

PREFACE COACHING WITH COLLEAGUES PART I: CONTEXT FOR COACHING INTRODUCTION PART I: 'HELPING' CONVERSATIONS 1. A Wide Scope for Conversation 2. A Dense Field of Exploration 3. Structuring the Coaching Journey 4. Entering Into and Ending the Coaching Relationship PART II: APPROACHES TO COACHING INTRODUCTION PART II: AUTHENTICITY 5. Historic Roots and Summary of Approaches 6. Directive Coaching: Structuring with an Objective 7. Coaching: Facilitating the Coachee 8. Analytical Coaching: Searching for Insight 9. Paradoxical Coaching: Moving with Defenses 10. Coaching Methodology 11. Choosing the Right Method PART III: REFLECTION ON COACHING INTRODUCTION PART III: INDIVIDUALITY 12. The Competencies of the Coach 13. Learning Through Coaching 14. The Organization Coach 15. Limitations of Coaching with Colleagues

A new up-to-date overview of coaching effectiveness with practical case studies to demonstrate how these techniques are applied in real businesses. Using well-known coaching approaches in business and devoting additional attention to internal coaching practices this is a distinct, rigorous yet accessible guide to coaching approaches and practice.