Behind Closed Doors: Stories from the Coaching Room 2016

BehindClosed Doors is a ground-breaking exploration of executivecoaching, based on a wide range of real-life case studies of coaching inaction. Despite the significant growth of executive coaching over the last 20years, very few case studies are available which can be used to guidepractising coaches – and those who retain their services – and which reveal thereality of coaching in action. Yet when the curtain is pulled back, we canlearn much about the impact of different interventions and different styles;where change happens for the better and where potential pitfalls may occur.Written by skilled and experienced practitioners, and showing what happens'inside' coaching relationships, this book provides just such guidance.BehindClosed Doors provides a unique view into a coach's highlypersonal practice, and offers transformational insights into the coach'sreflections and experiences, into the evolving relationships between coach andcoachee, and into the effects and outcomes for clients. The book showsexecutive coaches how they can dramatically increase the value they bring toorganisations and individuals alike by creating better, deeper clientrelationships. It shows how practising executive coaches can be more effectivein building the relationship with their clients, in reviewing this relationshipand in achieving more meaningful and significant coaching outcomes.BehindClosed Doors builds on the thought leadership of theAshridge Centre for Coaching and is essential reading for practisingexperienced coaches (internal and external), purchasers of coaching and HRprofessionals generally, and participants on Masters and Doctoral programmes inCoaching.

Erik de Haan is Director of the Ashridge Centre for Coaching at Ashridge Business School near London and Professor of Organisation Development and Coaching at the VU University in Amsterdam.He holds a PhD in Psychophysics, an MA and qualification in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, and an MSc in Theoretical Physics. He is also a qualified coach and supervisor and credentialed in the use of several psychometric instruments.He published more than one hundred and fifty professional and research articles and eleven books each in several languages, covering his main fields of expertise as a leadership and organisational consultant, facilitator and coach. He focuses on organisation-development consulting, supervision, action learning, politics and power in organisations, leadership hubris, and emotional aspects of working in teams and organisations.