Coaching

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Includes chapters reflecting the increasing importance of coaching and the solutions focus movement in the business environment. This book provides a route to progress in your organisation. It is filled with the most important ideas, case examples and practical tips for managers, facilitators and consultants.

Much has been written about coaching individuals, yet there has been little investigation of coaching teams at work. Even in organisations that have made strides towards becoming coaching cultures, the focus has been on the individual, not the team. This failure is now a serious weakness in the abilities of managers at all levels. In this book, David Clutterbuck bridges the gap between what is known about team learning and coaching and the practical experience of managers and team coaches. He answers such questions as how team coac... read more

This work is for psychotherapy section, and for healthcare professionals. This manual is specifically designed for therapists, counsellors and other helping professionals who are looking to add life coaching techniques to their portfolio of skills. Dave Ellis, author of "Falling Awake", has produced a step-by-step practical guide to turning your natural people helping skills into a profitable life coaching business. Life coaching is not therapy, but many of the qualities that therapists possess, and the techniques they use, natural... read more

If you are involved in business training or coaching, this really is the only book you will ever need. Before now, coaching was a muddle of single-model approaches, so finding the right model to get the best results was never certain. In Performance Coaching, Dr. Angus McLeod brings together the fundamentals of all the best practices in coaching and builds up from this foundation. Unlike so many of the coaching books already on the market, this book is for the coaches, not for the clients. Fast, accessible and clearly written, Perf... read more

If you are considering life coaching as a career, this book provides a guide to creating and sustaining your practice, a resource for coaching yourself towards a more fulfilled life, and a reference and companion designed to serve you through your professional life. It sets out to promote a thorough understanding of what life coaching entails and to lead you through a course of applied neuro-linguistic programming techiques and exercises aimed at improving your coaching abilities. These include state control, rapport-building, meta... read more

Taking a refreshing approach to the act of dreaming, this fascinating book goes one step further, offering the opportunity to explore our full potential through the very control of our dreams. Dreaming Realities teaches the reader how to construct dreams that will improve reality, and powerfully demonstrates how such dreams directly affect our lives. Presented is the most up-to-date information about dreaming and related states, plus a number of essential techniques for harnessing the resources of dreams. The result is a book that ... read more

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This edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work, into goal-setting, and a spiritual approach to coaching, together with a final section on "Coaching the Organizations' Culture".

This book introduces the reader to the management consultancy technique of Organizational Role Analysis (ORA)--a technique with the immensely practical purpose of helping managers to stay "in role and on task." As such, it provides a coherent, superbly illustrated framework for in-depth coaching. The ORA method is grounded in a process of consultation that derives from the conjunction of open systems theory, and psychodynamic understandings of human behavior. It enables the collaborative resolution of the mental and emotional tensi... read more

This work includes all the tools you need to succeed in coaching. "Niche Marketing for Coaches" is the essential handbook for building a life coaching, executive coaching or business coaching practice. Based on years of first-hand, practical experience this book shows you how to transform yourself from being just another coach into someone who stands out to your clients as the natural and only choice. As you read through the pages, you'll discover how to: identify your own, personal niche; use the marketing techniques which work be... read more

"The Business Coaching Handbook" reveals what business coaching is, how to assess the shape of your business and what steps you need to put in place to grow a successful business. This book has been complied for business entrepreneurs who have recently achieved the first goal of getting the enterprise up and running or, have been operating their own professional practice or business for a few years and now want to take it to the next level. Set in the same user-friendly format as "The Life Coaching Handbook", this book guides the r... read more

This book is a straightforward guide for would-be coaches, for those already working in the professional development arena, and for any one using coaching skills in their life. It highlights the essential coaching skills and qualities, how they are employed in given situations and what makes the coaching process successful, valuable and worthwhile. Written in simple, straightforward fashion and illustrated with case histories, the book will build coaching relationships that help realise the full potential of individuals and organi... read more

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Mentoring is the most cost efficient and sustainable method of fostering and developing talent within your organisation. Talented employees can be stretched to perform even better by exposure to high performing colleagues. Experience can be passed on more effectively one-to-one. Employees from groups that are under-represented in the organisation can be supported and developed by talking to others who have overcome similar barriers. This book shows you what mentoring is and how it differs from coaching. It shows you how to make the... read more

Coaching can work brilliantly. It can help you improve your employee retention levels, succession planning, and organisational creativity. In a supportive culture, managers, coaches and coachees all trust each other and work together. Sadly, even the best-managed coaching programme, with the best coaches, will fail in the real world where the coaching takes place doesn't match the fine words from HR. Spending money on coaching without first ensuring that the groundwork has been done is a fast track to failure. Make sure your traini... read more

Effective managers know that timely coaching can dramatically enhance their teams' performance. "Coaching and Mentoring" offers managers comprehensive advice on how to help employees grow professionally and achieve their goals. This volume covers the full spectrum of effective mentoring and the nuts and bolts of coaching. Managers will learn how to master special mentoring challenges, improve listening skills, and provide ongoing support to their employees.

Do coaches need to be psychologists, business people or both? "Essential Business Coaching" offers a much-needed answer to the question of what makes a good business coach. The authors draw on 60 years of combined experience to provide an in-depth review of best practice and theory. They provide a thorough examination of the changing nature of work, the need for new sources of competitive advantage and the benefits of investing in coaching. Useful ideas for further reading are found throughout, along with numerous examples of real ... read more

The way we think profoundly influences the way we feel, so learning to think differently can enable us to feel and act differently. Derived from the methods of cognitive behaviour therapy, this book shows how to tackle self-defeating thinking and replace it with a problem-solving outlook. This book gives clear and helpful advice on: dealing with troublesome emotionsovercoming procrastinationbecoming assertivetackling poor time managementpersisting at problem solvinghandling criticism constructivelytaking risks and making better de... read more

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