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"The philosophy behind the Sherpa Guide resonates with what I have learned over the years: clients have to do the work,
and coaches need to stay out of their way." - Marshall Goldsmith, world's leading executive coach.

The Sherpa Guide:
Process-Driven Executive Coaching

The book that defined the industry,
and guides countless careers.

Text for certifications at Penn State,
Texas Christian and the University of Georgia.

Authors Corbett and Colemon bring order to coaching through a detailed process

Seven universities have endorsed 'The Sherpa Guide', and offered an executive coaching certification taught by the authors. That degree of support tells you. . . this book is the industry standard, the 'operating system' for executive coaching. 'The Sherpa Guide' has been a text for coach training at Toyota and US Bank. It's currently the text for certifications offered by Penn State, Texas Christian University and the University of Georgia.

Years back, Hollywood’s elite started hiring personal trainers, and created a fitness industry that’s still booming. Today, executive coaches work on the "professional fitness” of business leaders. Those who do it well are richly rewarded. This book can be a rewarding experience for readers: coaches, consultants, training, development and HR specialists . . . in fact, anyone interested in leadership development and performance improvement.

This book is written for those who want to learn executive coaching, a field that’s growing rapidly.

The Sherpa Guide is a professional self-improvement book that teached the only rational / technical foundation available for the coaching profession. The Sherpa Guide is precise and it’s process–driven.

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Authors Corbett and Colemon talk about leadershiop, organizational development and the future of coach education

The Sherpa Guide sets the standard for ‘how to coach’ books, and for the field of coaching itself. This is a book packed with “actionable items” - tips, tricks and techniques for the coach to use with their client, and for managers and executives to use with their people. “The Sherpa Guide” is designed to lead the reader to success.

Written for a rapidly growing market, The Sherpa Guide offers business readers a clear path to a rewarding career. It clears up the confusion on what coaching should be, and defines a process for making it happen. “The Sherpa Guide” shares the authors’ process using dozens of case studies called "Stories From The Summit".

It's been tested, the model proven over years of daily use. It works, and people's lives have been changed. This book offers a “gold standard” for coaches, those who act as consultants from the outside, and those assigned as coaches within their own organization.

Target Audience

1. Any professional looking for a new career (Consultants and HR practitioners in particular).

2. HR professionals: employees who are used as trainers, staff developers and ‘internal coaches’

3. Consultants: those who want to add a lucrative service offering: executive coaching

4. Current coaches: those operating without a process that produces results.

Society for Human Resources ( SHRM ) on 'The Sherpa Guide':

"An exciting new book whose time has come, The Sherpa Guide delivers a solid standard for professional coaches, including
- a clear, predictable process for business coaching,
- a timeline for every coaching engagement,
- and a path through the pitfalls of a very complex and delicate business.

The authors take their lead from the Sherpa, the expert native guides who skillfully assist climbers to the top of Mount Everest. In this book, the authors take on the role of the Sherpa: enabling, advising and assisting. The executive, like climbers on Everest, must endure the hardships, put forth the effort, be subject to the risks involved in reaching their goals. Ultimately, they must reach the summit through their own skill and will.

Every climb is unique. This resourceful guide equips readers with the tools to coach their clients to their highest goals. In coaching, you need a process, and you must respect the process. No shortcuts, and no detours. Limit the playing field to professional issues, and then to allow the client to do the climbing on their way to the summit. Every situation is unique, but with a map for the process, a defined system, you'll reach your client's goals."

The Sherpa definition of executive coaching
and the questions the definition answers:

"a regular, one-on-one meeting

with a trained facilitator, to

produce positive changes

in business behavior

in a fixed time frame."

What it is, and how we do it:?

Who provides the service?

What's the goal?

Where's success measured?

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