Coaching The Secret Code to Uncommon Ledearship

This book lucidly illustrates how a leader can bring out the very best in people by coaching them and how coaching can unleash creativity as well as innovation while inspiring teams to play to their potential. It also examines how coaching helps leaders maintain a fine balance between managing and guiding and between appraising and supporting their teammates. While many excellent books have been written about leadership talent and coaching this is a rare book that stands boldly at the intersection of leadership and coaching.This is a book for our times. Businesses are facing a new reality characterized by a VUCA (volatile uncertain complex and ambiguous) world. This new reality has forced organizations to depart from conventional command-and-control practices to a completely new model - a model in which leaders support and guide rather than instruct and control their team members. Exploring some of the key ingredients of impactful leadership Coaching offers tips and tricks backed by research and incisive insights on how to become an effective leader-coach. Peppered with interesting anecdotes and analogies drawn from sports performing arts and other walks of life the book is a breezy read. Interviews with corporate leaders and academics further enrich the narrative. Guaranteed to make for a very interesting read the book will be useful to leaders aspiring leaders and especially those that wish to transition from being just good leaders to extraordinary ones. Review 'Knowing how to coach others is a powerful tool. Ruchira Chaudhary's book Coaching The Secret Code to Uncommon Leadership is a clear and crisp guide to a core element of strong leadership helping others up their game.' -- Sheryl Sandberg COO of Facebook and Founder of LeanIn.Org and OptionB.Org and author of international bestseller Lean In Women Work and the Will to Lead'Today's digitally oriented organisations operate at high speed and complexity - they need leaders who are coaches not controllers. These leaders in turn have the responsibility of building future-ready leaders who are agile and nimble. A leader needs to encourage his or her team to constantly innovate think out of the box and deliver transformative change. This book does a great job of illustrating how the best leaders do that through coaching. A timely read for anyone wishing to transition from being a manager to a leader or from being a good leader to a great one.' -- Nandan Nilekani Chairman and Co-Founder Infosys and Founding Chairman UIDAI (Aadhaar)'At Microsoft our culture is grounded in a growth mindset the belief that everyone has tremendous potential to improve and grow. And what we've found is that coaching sits at the foundation of empowering each person to become a successful leader which is why we included coaching as one of the three core attributes in our management excellence framework - Model Coach Care. This book helps unlock the secrets of coaching in a thoughtful collection of learnings insights and case studies that will guide the leaders of today on how to empower the leaders of tomorrow.' -- Kathleen Hogan Chief People Officer Microsoft'Real leadership is not just about building a big empire or achieving millions in revenue - its also about the journey and the teams we build along the way. How you develop your people arm them with opportunities to grow to flourish and help them discover their own path. Ruchira's book describes this facet in great detail and how leadership today is about asking -not telling others what to do. Coaching helps leaders elevate not just their teams but also themselves as it makes them more capable creative confident and self-aware.A wonderful business book from an ex-TCS colleague.' -- S. Ramadorai former CEO and MD Tata Consultancy Services and former advisor to the Prime Minister of India for the National Council on Skill Development'The market is full