Match

The Situational Coaching® Approach to Meeting Leaders Where They Are

How do you know your coaching is really helping someone get better?

After all, that is the goal of coaching—help someone improve. Help them strengthen their behavior, leadership, and performance. Help them move forward with greater confidence, clarity, and effectiveness.

But how do you ensure that the way you’re coaching does that?

As coaching has grown, so have the methodologies and competing opinions about the “right” way to coach. Yet experienced coaches rarely describe their success in terms of rigid formulas. They talk about adaptability, awareness, and understanding what the person in front of them needs in the moment.

That’s what Marshall Goldsmith and Suzie Bishop call “making the Match.”

In Match, they introduce the Situational Coaching® Model, a framework built around a simple idea: Effective coaching depends on matching the coaching approach to the person, opportunity, and moment. In interviews with top coaches across the industry, they heard a consistent theme: This is what the best coaches do.

Drawing from decades of coaching experience and the principles behind the Situational Leadership® Model, Matchtranslates those ideas into a practical coaching framework. Readers learn how to identify coaching opportunities, assess what a coachee needs, adapt their approach as situations change, and adjust alongside the coachee’s growth.

Over time, the framework becomes much more than a process; it becomes a mindset for recognizing what people need and helping them improve.

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ISBN: 979-8-89138-850-5
Imprint: 100 Coaches Publishing
SKU: 18-1485-01
Categories:Innovative Thought Leadership, 100 Coaches Publishing, Leadership and Management

“Coaching is a dynamic practice that requires context and understanding. Match offers a methodology that helps coaches meet the moment and make an impact. The framework is effective and proven, but most importantly, it’s deeply human—exactly what contemporary leaders need to navigate the complexities of today’s business landscape.”

—Marcus Collins, professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business and bestselling author of For the Culture

“It’s a universal principle that everything we do in relation to others evolves toward greater contextual awareness. Coaching is no exception, but the Situational Coaching® framework is applicable to leadership practice more broadly. If you believe in the Situational Leadership® Model, let Match be your next professional guide.”

—Mikko Leskelä, CEO, Thinkers50

“Match is a much-needed contribution. Coaches are constrained by their belief that coaching is a one-size-fits-all model, and all should fit into it. Instead, Match takes coaching from an off-the-rack offering to haute couture, raising it to the level of a unique relationship designed for a specific person in their precise situation, maximizing their strengths and capacities. In the age of AI, this kind of human authenticity cannot be surpassed. But Match goes further—it is a fabulous resource for coach training, helpful for the beginner or advanced practitioner.”

—Carol Kauffman, PhD, founder, Institute of Coaching

“I coach leaders in high-context cultures, where meaning lives beneath the surface, where the most important things are felt before they’re said. In those settings, the lesson at the heart of Match isn’t optional, it’s essential: Coaching begins not with what you know, but how you read and navigate what shows up in front of you. Marshall Goldsmith and Suzie Bishop have honored the complexity of human development in pivotal moments, while making the path to it refreshingly clear. This is a robust yet simple framework, flexible enough to travel across industries, generations, and continents.”

—Nankhonde Kasonde-van den Broek, Thinkers50 coaching legend and author of Grounded Visibility

“Great coaching is not about using the same method with every person. It is about understanding what someone needs in this moment to get better. Match turns that simple idea into a clear and practical framework. Marshall Goldsmith and Suzie Bishop have created a book that will help good coaches become more thoughtful, and great coaches become even better.”

—Scott Osman, CEO and cofounder of 100 Coaches Agency, coauthor of The Wall Street Journal bestseller Becoming Coachable

Suzie Bishop

Innovative Product Strategist and Purpose-Driven Leader

Suzie Bishop is the vice president of product development at The Center for Leadership Studies, where she drives innovative and experiential learning solutions to better equip leaders for the modern workplace. She is an expert in the Situational Leadership® framework, a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches community, and a columnist for Training Industry Magazine. She was recognized as an Elliott Masie 30 Under 30 leader.

Marshall Goldsmith

#1 Executive Coach in the World and #1 New York Times bestselling author

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Marshall Goldsmith is the founder of the Marshall Goldsmith Group and 100 Coaches. The inaugural winner of the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School and a Thinkers50 Management Hall of Fame inductee, he has advised more than 200 major CEOs and their management teams over the course of his career. A New York Times bestselling author, he is the author or editor of more than thirty-five books, including What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

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