Book Review: Coaching Your Kids to Be Leaders

Coaching Your Kids to Be Leaders: The Keys to Unlocking Their Potential
Author: Pat Williams (and John Wooden)
Hardcover: 304 pages, $12.91
Published: January 2005

I bought this book because I wanted to learn how to better train my children to grow up to be leaders. As I started reading I quickly found that this book isn’t just for parents of children, but for anybody who wants to learn what it means to be a better leader themselves.

Coaching provides example after example of leaders in business, sports and politics and how they learned to develop themselves into leaders. Many of their stories talk about how they became leaders early on in childhood because of mentors, teachers and parents who pushed them to be something great.

Each chapter takes the reader through the leadership process, what it means and how to become and effective leader. Coaching is simultaneously an inspirational book while also providing solid points, tips and strategies in developing oneself (or one’s children) into strong leaders. No leadership rock is left unturned or secret uncovered.