A toolbox for Foreigners & Thais to work most effectively together.
Read the presentations made by 4 leading coaches on June 24th 2010 at the Launch of Thailand Coaching Society (double-click on title above).
Participate to our continuous on-line survey on Executive Coaching in Thailand!Watch videos of Jean-Francois Cousin's presentation on "Executive Coaching: from pitfalls to Magic":
- http://mitworld.mit.edu/host/view/131
Videos of interviews from « business/management celebrities »; click on the pictures below to watch a few worthwhile examples:
Jack Welsh “a conversation”: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/260 ;
Carly Fiorina “Tough choices”: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/424;
Anne Mulcahy “leadership lessons learnt from the firing line”: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/412;
Lawrence Fish “not your typical CEO”: http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/344
- http://www.leadershipinfocus.net/2-0/?§ion=cases
Standford University: short business cases presented by leaders, a good basis for discussion
- http://www.marshallgoldsmithlibrary.com/html/marshall/video.html
Marshall Goldsmith’s website, free audio, video and other resources offered by Marshall –a highly respected executive coach world-wide-
- http://www.strengthsfinder.com/
Offers the possibility to find out your top strengths, by answering 100+ questions
- http://www.astd.org/astd American Society for Training and Development
News on what’s new in the world of training and people-development
“What got you here won’t get you there” (Marshall Goldsmith, Hyperion)
for CEOs and senior management
“Tales from the Top: 10 crucial questions from the World’s number 1 Executive Coach” (Graham Alexander, Thomas Nelson)
for CEOs, for personal reflection on how they perform and what they are building
“The secrets of CEOs” (Steve Tappin and Andrew Cave, Nicholas Brealey publishing)
for CEOs, keys for breakthrough-strategy
“Winning” (Jack Welsh; Harper Business)
for middle-management, on leadership
“You can win” (Shiv Kera; MacMillan)
Inspirational stories on management and personal development
“The Success Principles” (Jack Canfield; Harper Element)
for personal development
"Quiet Leadership" (David Rock; Harper)
for coaches; links coaching and neurosciences
“Who moved my cheese?” (Dr Spencer Johnson; Vermillion)
on change management
"Our iceberg is melting" (John Kotter; McMillan)
on change management
"The 5 dysfunctions of a team" (Patrick Lencioni; Jossey-Bass)
on team-building
"Fierce conversations" (Susan Scott; Berkley)
on how to hold productive conversations
"Made to stick" (Dan and Chip Heath)
on effective communication
“Leadership and the one minute manager” (Ken Blanchard; Harper Collins)
for middle-management, on people development
“Coaching for Performance” (John Whitmore, Nicholas Brealey publishing)
considered the first book on executive coaching, and still a prime reference
“Appreciative Coaching” (Sara Orem et all; Jossey-Bass)
for managers coaching
“The first 90 days” (Michael Watkins; HBS Press)
for managers preparing for a new assignment
“The Angel Inside” (Chris Widener, Currency Doubleday)
for personal development and life choices
“Now Discover your Strengths” (Markus Buckingham; Pocket Books)
for personal assessment of own strengths
"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear." John Madden
"People will exceed targets they set themselves." Gordon Dryden
"A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are." Ara Parasheghian
“The test of a good coach is that when they leave, others will carry on successfully.” Author Unknown
“You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.” Bob Nelson
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” Maria Robinson
"Act now. For now is all you have." Og Mandino
"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." Ben Stein
"Things do not change; we change." Henry David Thoreau
“I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” Leonardo Davinci
“The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can do it.” Lloyd Dobens
“We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.” Lloyd Alexander
“If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.” John Maxwell
“Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.” Mark Victor Hansen
"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing that's why we recommend it daily." Zig Ziglar