Effective executive coaching is accepted as one of the critical factors in developing successful leaders and teams in the best performing organisations. This book steps beyond the notion of a prescriptive formula that can be applied to deliver successful coaching every time. It will develop your coaching capability, present an overview of best practice coaching and provide insights into the contemporary personal and organisational challenges that define the context of coaching. Table of Contents Getting started in executive coaching a model for development coaching assessment in coaching assessing executive coaching capability experiential learning and executive coaching from corporate leader to coach- a UK perspective on executive coaching executive coaching in action- developing a general management outlook executive coaching in action: legal eagle to people leader- executive coaching in action: out of favour or out of her league executive coaching in action- lessons from a culture change assignment building a multicultural leadership team: the case of the GM in jeopardy cross cultural coaching in Europe- a case of cultural disruption cross cultural coaching in the Middle East coaching in the Asia Pacific region summary of best practice coaching building your executive coaching capability.