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Roger Fisher • Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
Here the focus is on having coachees describe what they want to change or what they want to achieve. Most coachees have one or two primary areas of focus.
Henry Kimsey-House, Karen Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandhal, Laura Whitworth • Co-Active Coaching
private closed-door meetings with each partner and asking “What, precisely, is it that is going to make you special (or even more special) in the marketplace over the next few years? Would you like to develop a specialized expertise in a particular technical area, in certain types of transaction, in the problems of certain types of clients?
David H. Maister • Managing The Professional Service Firm
Assumptions drive everything.
Nancy Kline • More Time to Think: The power of independent thinking
one-on-one sessions
Jeffrey Hiatt • ADKAR: A Model for Change in Business, Government and our Community
For people interested in learning more about the model, I recommend Kegan’s graduate student Jennifer Garvey Berger’s more recent and less academic book Changing on the Job.
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Skilled people Start with Heart. That is, they begin high-risk discussions with the right motives, and they stay focused no matter what happens.