2023 Awards – Leadership in Mentoring / Coaching Books

2023 Awards – Leadership in Mentoring / Coaching Books

2023 Winners Goody Business Book Awards Leadership Mentoring Coaching

Leadership - Mentoring / Coaching

Winner

The Answer is a Question: The Missing Superpower that Changes Everything and Will Transform Your Impact as a Manager and Leader

Author:

Laura Ashley-Timms

Co-Authors:

Dominic Ashley-Timms

How is your book helping others?

This book revolutionises leadership performance and organizational success everywhere by explaining and showing not just what to do, but exactly how all leaders and managers can engage with colleagues and team members to positively transform outcomes.
The authors explore the urgent need for change and share a step-by-step methodology, (now academically proven by the London School of Economics (LSE)), that invites leaders to adopt a new superpower that can transform their behavior and capabilities within 6-months.
The authors openly share their concepts and intellectual property, the STAR® model, and their accumulated 30 years of experience from having delivered measurable results for leaders working in over 40 countries, alongside the richness of real case studies, learner stories and missions for the reader to use to generate immediate benefits - creating both an enjoyable read and a resource for life.

Leadership - Mentoring / Coaching

Winner

Be Your Own Leadership Coach: Self-coaching strategies to lead your way

Author:

Karen Stein

How is your book helping others?

Many leaders dream of having a leadership coach: a dedicated cheerleader and confidant to support their thinking and development, and help them explore their issues and concerns. But what happens once your coaching sessions come to an end, or if you can’t access a coach in the moment due to financial or practical reasons? How do you support yourself? What many leaders don’t realise is that it’s possible to have a coach with you on tap – and that coach can be you. Be Your Own Leadership Coach is a one-stop shop teaching you powerful self-coaching strategies in support of your leadership of you and in support of yourself as you lead others – anytime and anywhere. Drawing on evidence-based positive psychology and more than 2000 hours of one-on-one coaching, Karen presents 12 practices which bring more equity of access to coaching. Through reflective exercises and learnings, the reader can support themself to be their best self and have a positive long lasting leadership impact.

Leadership - Mentoring / Coaching

Finalist

Be Your Best You: The Ultimate Research-Based Guide to Outstanding Leadership

Author:

Mary Kovach Ph.D.

How is your book helping others?

This book delivers the full leadership spectrum by sharing nine leadership styles and allowing the reader to find his or her best fit. There are three sections to this book.
Part 1 discusses leadership styles and theories, including: Trait Theories, Behavioral Theories, Path-Goal Theory, Leader-Member Exchange Theory, Authentic Leadership, Servant Leadership, Situational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, and Transformational Leadership. Each leadership style is paired with reflection questions and a tool, to enhance leadership development.
Part 2 demonstrates how self-belief and self-doubt can influence results, with reflection questions, stories, and other techniques.
Part 3 consists of four leadership contexts (business, education, sport, and the military) from double-blind, peer reviewed, global scholarly studies that illustrate the direct impact of applying transformational leadership and prove its effectiveness.

Leadership - Mentoring / Coaching

Finalist

8 Paradoxes of Leadership Agility

Author:

Chuen Chuen Yeo

How is your book helping others?

This book helps managers and leaders adopt a new way of thinking in the volatile workplace, reducing stress, increasing a sense of ease and authenticity, and improving their resilience to excel and make a positive difference.

Readers globally have reached out to me after the book was published, sharing how the simple four-step model has offered them another perspective that is more constructive, resourceful and liberating. Many readers have also shared their insights with the rest of the world through my podcast, Agile Leaders Conversations. For some readers, the stories in the book gave them closure on the challenges they faced on their leadership journey.

In a nutshell, the stories coupled with the four-step model gives modern leaders a simple and systematic way to broaden their perpsectives, clarify their values and then leading with agility and ease. This helps them be ready for whatever changes that will come their way.