Some executives use coaching to learn specific skills, others to improve performance on the job or to prepare for career moves in business or professional life. Still others see coaching as a way to support broader purposes such as an agenda for major organizational change. To an outsider, these coaching situations may look similar. All are based on an ongoing, confidential, one-on-one relationship between coach and executive. Yet each coaching situation is different, and these distinctions are important to recognize--if only to foster informed choice by everyone involved. This report explores key distinguishing factors among coaching situations, and defines four distinctly different coaching roles. Case examples explore how these roles apply to common coaching issues facing executives and their organizations today.

Are you drawn instinctively to the edge of your knowledge rather than the center of it? Are you attracted to projects and problems with an element of the unknown in them? Do you have trouble with heated situations? Will you generally take a chance and make a decision? Your answers will reveal some of the essential elements of personal and corporate success in the emerging economies. RELAX, IT'S ONLY UNCERTAINTY will help you decide intuitively and act decisively.

At a time when women have more tools than ever before to help them break through the glass ceiling, including the government's Glass Ceiling Initiative and the 1991 Civil Rights Act, far too many remain trapped beneath it. Based on the ground-breaking three-year study of female executives that brought the glass ceiling to national attention, this book examines the factors that determine success or derailment in the corporate environment, reveals how the executive environment is different for women, and looks at the new obstacles along the road to the top.Vital reading for every woman in business and for every employer and manager now responsible for the removal of advancement barriers for women, "Breaking the Glass Ceiling" explodes the long-held myths and provides practical advice on how to smash the glass ceiling.