Simon L. Dolan - The Secret of Coaching and Leading by Values: How to Ensure Alignment and Proper Realignment

The Secret of Coaching and Leading by Values

Coaches play a major role in helping people understand their values and the values of their surroundings and helping them make choices and adapt. Sometimes the choice may be to find a situation more in sync with your values. Or it may mean working hard on yourself or in concert with your partner, team, or organization. Whatever we need to do to attain it, a positive fit makes for a happier person, and a happier person will be more successful. This accessible and practical book will help coaches, educators, leaders, and managers understand the philosophy, methodology, and tools that can be used to make a person happier, healthier, and more productive at work and in life in general.

This book compiles short vignettes from over a dozen global academics and celebrated executive coaches, sharing information about aligning values in different settings. Based on years of research and written for readers from all walks of life, you will learn that when you understand your core values, place them on a triaxial template, and align them with your definition of success, everything changes. It will help you come out of your comfort zone in order to embrace the future and enhance the quality of your life. For this, you need a concept, a methodology, and effective tools, all of which are offered in this book.

Rich with practical step-by-step methodologies and tools to facilitate values-led leadership, coaching, and mentoring, this book is essential for any change agent, be it a coach, a leader, an educator, or any person who is interested in learning how to become more effective, improve their practice, and engage in self or professional coaching. At the same time, it will enhance leadership qualities.

Simon L. Dolan is a prolific author with over 75 books published in various languages on themes connected with values, people management, coaching, leadership, consulting, and the future of work. He has more than 40 years of research track teaching at the worlds leading business schools in the United States, Canada, and recently Spain (ESADE). He is also the president of Gestion MDS Inc, a Montreal-based consulting firm, and a think tank foundation, The Global Future of Work, which he recently created.

The Secret of Coaching and Leading by Values

How to Ensure Alignment and Proper Realignment

Simon L. Dolan

First published 2020
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Names: Dolan, Simon L. (Simon Landau), 1947- author.
Title: The secret of coaching and leading by values: how to ensure alignment and proper realignment / Simon L. Dolan.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge, 2020. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020006646 (print) | LCCN 2020006647 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367456368 (hardback) | ISBN 9781003025146 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: EmployeesCoaching of. | Executive coaching. | Personal coaching.
Classification: LCC HF5549.5.C53 D65 2020 (print) | LCC HF5549.5.C53 (ebook) | DDC 658.3/124dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006646
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020006647

ISBN: 978-0-367-45636-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-003-02514-6 (ebk)

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This book is dedicated to the community of Coaching by Values (CBV) (CoachingxValores in Spanish) and the new emerging community of Leadership by Values (LBV). Since the first edition of CBV was published in 2011 in English, and in 2012 in Spanish, and under the leadership of David Alonso, the community of Coaching by Values has evolved enormously throughout the world, but more specifically in Spain and in the South and Central American continent. The people involved in the community are professionals who have dedicated energy and passion to a divine mission of changing the world and making it a better place to live. I have a deep respect and admiration for these people and gratitude for believing in me. This book has become the Bible (the DNA) for the community, of CBV and LBV, although more products and methodologies are emerging every year and have added significant creative value to my initial thoughts via a process of co-evolution. This book uses the collective experience accumulated both by me and others who have practiced the methodology and tools throughout the globe in the past several years. But I am particularly in debt to my colleague Dr. Salvador Garcia, who has co-developed with me the concept of the triaxial model of values, and who led the writing of the first book on values (in Spanish) in 1997. Thus, I feel in debt to them for the process of co-evolution and wish to dedicate this book to the community leaders, the certified coaches, and the thousands of people like you, who will certainly join us after reading this book.

Contents

DAVID ALONSO

Professor Simon L. Dolan is a prolific author who has written over 75 books in multiple languages on various themes connected with values, culture, coaching, work-health, leadership, and, more recently, the future of work. Simon has taught and conducted research at some of the leading global business schools spanning North America, Europe, South America, the Middle East, and Asia. He has published over 150 articles in scientific journals and is a highly sought speaker who has presented over 800 lectures and conferences throughout the globe. Professor Dolan is the co-founder of several organizations of the future, such as the e-Merit Academy and the Global Future of Work Foundation (www.globalfutureofwork). In addition, Professor. Dolan is the co-creator and leader of the Coaching by Values, and the Leadership by Values communities that currently certify professionals and have thousands of followers in all corners of the world. To learn more, visit www.simondolan.com

Contributor (Chapter 7)

David Alonso is the CEO and co-founder of the coachingxvalores brand as well as the Leadershipbyvalues brand. He graduated in business administration and has a Masters degree in sales and marketing. He has been a professional certified coach (PCC and ICF) since 2009 with over 2000 hours of coaching experience. He is also a certified coach in NLP and the first master trainer in Coaching by Values. He is the creator of the Coaching by Values community, and with his team has certified over 1800 people across the globe, but more specifically in the Spanish-speaking countries. See: www.coachingxvalores.com.