Experienced executive coaches Laura Daley and Julie Hess walk readers through a full coaching engagement using the four phases of their Intentional Engagement Framework:

1) Creating the Container

2) Establishing the Through Line

3) Making Progress, and

4) Ending with Meaning

They provide field-tested tools, practices and structures for each phase, and conclude with insight into developing the most important tool in your coaching toolkit: you!

Using stories and examples that the authors pull from their own experience as well as dozens of colleague interviews, Do Your Best Coaching illustrates how to handle the many challenges, questions, and sticky situations coaches may encounter during an engagement. Do Your Best Coaching offers the opportunity to learn best practices from many of the top coaches in the field, and the encouragement to shift from habitual to intentional practices.

Easily adaptable for each unique coaching context, Do Your Best Coaching offers new and seasoned coaches alike the practical tools and the experiential wisdom they need to do their best coaching.