Managers are faced with a severe crisis, as their companies often show dangerous signs of disorganization and dehumanization. Their professional reference framework is falling apart... But can't anything be done about it?
This visionary book (first edited in 2002!) ambitions to tackle this deep managerial crisis. The first part of the book analyzes the environment managers are evolving in - and the challenges they are confronted to. The second part introduces the Management by Coaching (MPC™) approach, a project-oriented management methodology in which every manager acts both as a project leader and a coach.
Although this book was specifically written for managers, the MPC™ methodology can actually be applied in any context - professional and non professional. It is interactive and offers a wide range of self-coaching exercises.
Liliane Held-Khawam is an economist. She founded Pro Mind Consulting in 1989, with the motto "developing the organization by developing its human potential".
The eBook "Management by Coaching: Coping with Complexity in a Changing World" is now available on Amazon.com and Kobo!
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I: How managers lost their professional reference framework
1. Globalization and robotization: the hardest hitting trends in the global economy
2. The fragmentation of the manager’s professional environment
3. The effects of accelerated change
PART II: Adressing the main challenges of contemporary management
4. The disruptions caused by unstable economic markets
5. The dangers of failed change management projects
6. Other sources of organizational failure
7. The human factor at the core of organizational tensions
8. The disruptions caused by failed reengineering processes
9. How managerial and organizational competitiveness is impacted
PART III: Introducing the MPC™ Reference Framework
10. The core values of the MPC™ approach
11. The implementation of a holistic management approach
12. The secondary goals of the MPC™ management approach
PART IV: Leveraging the company’s human potential
13. The assessment of individual and collective competencies
14. The strengthening of organizational health
15. The role of managers who apply the MPC™ approachy
16. How the key managerial success factors are evolving
PART V: Designing and implementing an MPC™ Project
17. Assessing the MPC™ project’s mission
18. Assessing the project leader’s competency profile
19. Defining the project’s framework and outlining an action plan
20. A few management tools that are relevant to the MPC™ approach
SELF-COACHING EXERCISES
The self-coaching exercises featured in the book are also freely accessible online. They allow you to design a tailored professional project by structuring your professional activity along a well-defined management process.
