Becoming a Coaching Leader The Proven Strategy for Building Your Own Team of Champions

Becoming a Coaching Leader The Proven Strategy for Building Your Own Team of Champions

Becoming a Coaching Leader shows business managers and leaders at all levels why they should add “coach” to corporate titles and lead their teams to greatness. This book equips you with the skills, disciplines, and knowledge to turn your paycheck-driven teams into vibrant and successful growth cultures. CEO and Head Coach of Building Champions, Daniel Harkavy shows you how to move beyond the theoretical to the very practical “how to” of coaching. He also presents valuable insight for assessing how fulfilled and on-purpose you are as a leader.

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4 Stars Insightful guide to improving your business by improving lives
Would you like to help your team members become more effective, and enjoy their work and personal lives more? Daniel Harkavy teaches you how to do just that by becoming an effective coaching leader. The key to his method is modeling the qualities and behaviors you want to instill in others. To be a coaching leader (and not a mere manager), you need conviction, courage and honesty. By embracing listening and learning, and considering what matters in your life, you can successfully coach people to progress by helping them define their own “Core Four” levels. People who develop a life plan and a business vision, and who manage their priorities, can see how their work contributes to their happiness and sense of purpose. Then, based on their vision statements, they can set clear, purposeful goals that are specific enough to be operational. getAbstract applauds Harkavy’s systematic approach to coaching employees and ultimately adding value to your business.

5 Stars Daniel Knows How to Get Results
Having been through three years of coaching with Daniel’s company (Building Champions) I can say they know how to get results. While I didn’t work with Daniel personally the coach I did work with taught based on the philosphy of this book.

If you are looking for a way to move your business forward today, this is not the book for you. Daniel believes you have to have a road map to know where you are going before you start the actual business planning. This is about a balanced life while increasing your business success. You start with what you want from life? What do you envision as success in your life? That is your “Life Plan”. Without that you don’t know in what direction you have to take your business life to achieve your success.

I can rave about the book and Daniel’s philosophy of teaching but the best evidence is after following his program step by step I was able to reduce substantially the number of hours I work, enjoy life more, and at the same time increase my income by more than 80%.

While someone else’s results may not be the same this is a book you need to study. It will move you and your team, if you have one, to the next level and beyond. Knowing his philosphy as expressed in this book I had to share my success and hope other people will step up and achieve the same or greater results.

4 Stars A good approach to becoming a better and more connected leader
Each of us has had bosses of varying ability, approach to their job, and interest in us or the company they work for. Face it; some of them you would work very hard for and others you never want to see or talk to again. Which manager did you enjoy more? Which made you work seem like something special rather than endless drudgery? This book shows you how to become the kind of boss that makes life better for everyone. Daniel Karkavy calls this approach the coaching-leader. He has his own executive coaching practice and shares his approach with his clients in this book.

He presents his material in twelve chapters divided into three parts. First, he explains what he means by “coaching-leader” and what the benefits of the approach are. In part 2 he takes you through his “Core Four” process. Basically, you create your Life Plan first so you are clear what matters to you most. Second, you write a Business Vision so you understand its connection to your Life Plan and what you want to accomplish at work. This is followed by a Business Plan so you structure the vision with a practical approach to work. Now that you have these three parts completed you are ready to deal with the pressing issues of setting priorities and dealing with pressing issues. You will see clearly what needs to be dealt with, what should be delegated, and what is irrelevant. The key is that you also teach this method to each member of your team and coach them through their own implementation of the process.

The third part is about the practical application of this method as teacher and coach including the tools you should use to achieve your aims.

This is a pretty good book. The writing is somewhat clunky at times and a tad repetitive, but the ideas are good, its heart is in a great place, and I think it can help anyone become a better and more effective leader.

Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Ann Arbor, MI

5 Stars Awesome book
This is an awesome book on becoming a coaching leader. Daniel Harkavy lays it on the line when it comes to what it takes to become a successful coaching leader. I would highly recommend this book to any leader wanting to raise his / her ability to effectively lead people.

1 Star Banal
You can always learn something. You may learn much from this book, but in my case, not much. I should have noticed the hyperbole on the dust jacket. “What do you want your business to look like in twenty years?” This is plainly absurd. In a fast-changing environment with so many contingencies one can’t predict five years out, maybe not even five months. One needs the ability to be adaptable and agile. Just think back twenty years ago, before Google, before cell phones, before we were in so many wars around the world, before the real-estate boom, before the dot-com boom and bust.

This book is based on Christian religious precepts that I find unhelpful. The world is not a static place; and if you just follow the steps, the assumption is, the desired results will miraculously appear.

I found no mention of intuition, the ability to be present, and the value of un-structured time. Purpose is assumed to be good, but often the opposite is true in exploration. Not having a goal is where creativity and change can be allowed to flourish. The Koto School of Philosophy’s action-intuition makes more sense in a dynamic world. In a static world, one can get by with imitating so-called successful people.

Sadly, the book reads more like just one more recipe. Externally imposed strictures are resisted by creative and imaginative minds, but this book doesn’t seem to be aimed at the thoughtful. Even the title is clich