The Art of Self-coaching

Executive coaching has grown enormously in popularity over the last twenty years, and in the process the field has shifted from serving as a corrective measure for underperformers to helping high-potentials develop fully and allowing stars to continue to up their game. The Art of Self-Coaching is not intended to replace the experience of working one-on-one with a professional coach, but rather to augment the coaching process for active clients, to serve as a resource after a coaching engagement is concluded, and to provide a structured approach to managing one's professional growth and development to the large number of people who lack the opportunity to work directly with a coach. The book starts with a set of principles and practices that comprise the process of self-coaching. It then addresses the topic through a series of chapters aimed at different aspects of personal and professional development: Beginnings, Change, Emotion, Happiness, Resilience, Vulnerability, Unhappiness, Vice, Success, and Endings. Drawing upon recent research in neuroscience, social psychology and other disciplines, The Art of Self-Coaching will help readers better understand and leverage their strengths, address their weaknesses and areas for improvement, and provide a set of tools and conceptual frameworks to guide their ongoing development as people and as professionals.

Ed Batista is an executive coach in San Francisco and an Instructor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He launched his coaching practice in 2006 after a 15-year career in management, during which he earned his MBA from Stanford and was ＂employee #1＂ at three new nonprofit ventures. Ed has been writing on coaching and related topics at edbatista.com since 2005 and has been a contributor to HBR.org since 2013. He is a coauthor of HBR Guide to Coaching Employees.