Thomas D Zweifel

Icoach Thomas D Zweifel

Especially in times of home office and virtual teams, how do you manage people remotely and still get results? The answer: Don't manage them (command-and-control won't last anyway) but coach them for excellence-and boost your freedom, power and peace of mind. If working with others is a mystery (or a pain), iCoach is the solution.88% of managers who use a coach consider their coaching invaluable. 89% of people who don't have a coach wish they had one. Demand for coaching will increase by a whopping 39% over the next decade.

"Coaching is no longer a service to buy or delegate, but a basic management competence-just like finance or marketing. Every leader or manager must be a competent coach. Dr. Zweifel gives you a systematic toolkit for getting the best out of your people."
-Marshall Goldsmith, Thinkers50 #1 Leadership Thinker in the World

iCoach is not just a book but a system, refined over three decades of coaching CEOs and other leaders to meet strategic imperatives. Even if you stay in your current job-and especially if you're the CEO-iCoach gives you access to being a successful coach.

The problem is, we know how to fly a robot to Mars, yet we know next to nothing about empowering people-igniting their power and productivity.

Is your team too dependent on you? Are you caught in micro-management or saving the day? Is your bench strength insufficient, or team members not entrepreneurial enough? Do you feel sometimes it's all too much to manage?

Dr. Zweifel learned coaching in the 1980s, when the profession barely existed outside of sports. He has poured 35+ years of experience-as a senior manager and CEO, then as a strategy & performance expert and CEO coach-into this path-breaking book. The Coaching-In-Action methodology is based on both timeless principles of leadership and the latest discoveries in neuroscience, psycholinguistics and behavioral economics.

"If you lead anything, use this book to lead your teams to sustainable, and meaningful, high performance." -Dr. Daniel Vasella, former Chairman & CEO, Novartis

Harvard teaches you can manage up to five direct reports. With coaching, you don't have that constraint. iCoach(R) gives you the secret formula for leveraging yourself, having maximum impact and growing the business when you're not around.

"A punchy book that strips executive coaching back to the essentials. Here's what to do, and what not to do, to be effective." -Michael Bungay Stanier, author of WSJ-bestseller The Coaching Habit

Learn:
- The 5 steps to power and impact through people.
- When to wear the "coach hat" and when the "management hat."
- The 6 steps to build trust, demand for coaching and clients.
- How to see and catch coaching opportunities (without which coaching will fail).
- The 7 coaching questions that position you as guru-and kill time wasters.
- How to build a lucrative coaching business (if you want). And
- The exit strategy: How to free yourself and make the intervention sustainable.

"This is exactly what I wanted to do for a living. Thomas has been a source of inspiration for a profound professional and life change."
-Elsa Regan-Klapisz, Executive Coach, Leadership Specialist

Zweifel used this system to secure his own financial freedom, work smarter and accomplish more, with more people. For his clients the system worked to produce, in the aggregate, over $9 billion in added revenues-while boosting innovation and building coaching cultures.

The iCoach(R) methodology provides a new kind of power: not over but with people, defined as speed from idea to results. It's a power all too often missing in organizations. Read iCoach, get ready to boost people power-and your impact, freedom and peace of min