Courageous Coaching: Using the BUILD-RAISE Model – A Practical Guide for Leader-Coaches

By Chris Edger

All managers need great coaching skills to get the best out of their people – quickly – but how? Courageous Coaching is a ground-breaking book that outlines in practical terms how managers – acting in a leader-coach capacity – can quickly raise self-awareness and build accountability amongst their subordinates through the unique BUILD-RAISE coaching framework. Its straightforward style – incorporating multiple questions and techniques – furnishes all managers with the tools to get the best out of their people. This book gives them the coaching skills to courageously challenge; shifting mindsets, reframing perspectives and stimulating positive behaviours from their people. It is the essential coaching guide for every practising and aspiring leader-coach!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Libri Publishing Ltd
• Release date: Jun 30, 2019
• ISBN: 9781911450191

Chris Edger

Professor Chris Edger PhD is a former Executive Director of blue chip businesses. Having founded the Academy of Multi-Unit Leadership in 2010, he has taught and coached over 800 corporate executives on his post-graduate leadership programmes. He is the author of eight books on leadership, the inventor of the ELQ9 perceptual gap model and holds four degrees and a Level 7 Advanced Award in Coaching and Mentoring (with distinction).

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COURAGEOUS COACHING

Using the BUILD–RAISE Model!

A Practical Guide for

Leader–Coaches

Chris Edger

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First published in 2017 by Libri Publishing

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About the Author

Professor Chris Edger is a leadership author, academic and high-performance coach. He has written a number of books on leadership, including: Effective Multi-Unit Leadership – Local Leadership in Multi-Site Situations (described by the Leadership & Organization Development Journal as one of the key books of its kind for this decade), International Multi-Unit Leadership – Developing Local Leaders in International Multi-Site Operations, Professional Area Management – Leading at a Distance in Multi-Unit Enterprises (first and second editions), Franchising – How Both Sides Can Win (shortlisted for the 2016 CMI Management Book of the Year and rated a ‘Top 5 Must Read’ book on franchising by Reed Commercial in June 2016), Effective Brand Leadership – Be Different. Stay Different. Or Perish (with Tony Hughes), Retail Area Management – Strategic and Local Models for Driving Growth and Inspirational Leadership – How to Mobilise Super-performance through eMOTION (with Tony Hughes).

He holds four degrees: a PhD (ESRC Award) from the Warwick Business School, an MSc (ECON) with distinction from the London School of Economics, an MBA and PGDip from Nottingham Business School and BSc (hons) with University Prize from Brunel University. He has a Level 7 Advanced Award in Coaching and Mentoring (with distinction) and is a Fellow of the CIPD. Having founded the Academy of Multi-Unit Leadership in 2010 (where he has coached over 700 corporate managers) he has taught at the Warwick Business School (winning numerous teaching wards on the MBA Programme), University of Birmingham and Birmingham City University.

Described by some commentators as the UK’s leading expert on multi-site retail management, Chris frequently features in the media, having appeared on/written for outlets such as Channel 4 News,