Coaching Books

COACHING AND ORGANISATIONS

The Inner Game of Work

Provides principles and methods to help us control negative influences such as fear of failure and self-criticism. The principles have been adopted by managers and employees of some of the world's largest companies, and are a powerful tool for overcoming the inner obstacles to a fulfilling and rewarding career.
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7’Cs of Coaching

The Seven Cs of Coaching is carefully designed to offer a collaborative framework that will help ensure old patterns of behaviour are broken, and new ones are formed - and maintained.  
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Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions

 Successful coaching is about finding solutions and optimizing a client's life. Insoo Kim Berg, one of the founders of solution-focused psychotherapy, shows how to achieve these goals by applying this unique approach to coaching. All coaches, as well as therapists, will benefit from these techniques for creating effective and transformative conversations.
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Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart

 If you've been looking for sound direction on how to coach top executives, here it is. In Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart, Mary Beth O'Neill outlines the dynamic approach to coaching leaders that she's developed over the course of a twenty-year career. Her unique perspective and sage advice, backed by a specific four-phase methodology, gives you the means to successfully manage the coach-client relationship and effect dramatic changes that ensure the business outcomes leaders' want.
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Coaching Across Cultures

As coaches and clients increasingly realise, the demands of business mean that it is now vital to integrate, understand and leverage cultural differences across countries and corporations. This work bridges the gap between coaching and interculturalism.
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Coaching for Improved Work Performance

The ultimate source of on-the-job coaching tips, now expanded to cover the latest workplace trends. Workplaces are constantly changing because of innovations such as flex-time, flattened hierarchies, 360-degree feedback, telecommuting, and the increased use of temps and contract workers. But managers often don't know how to coax maximum performance from employees in these untraditional situations. Now best-selling author Fred Fournies has updated his classic guide to show you how.
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Making Coaching Work

Even the best-managed coaching programme, with the best coaches, will fail if the real world where the coaching takes place doesn't match the fine words from HR. Coaching can work brilliantly. It can help you improve your employee retention levels, succession planning, and organisational creativity. But it can only work when the culture is supportive: where managers, coaches and coachees all trust each other and are working together.
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The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work

A timely and important book for people looking to step into the dynamic and progressive area of coaching. This comprehensive, unique reference explains the basic principles and key concepts behind this increasingly well recognised, effective method of achieving change and development in organisations. "Coaching" follows a well defined, systematic logic which produces results that can be powerful.

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DEVELOPING YOUR COACHING

Coaching Evoking Excellence in Others

Coaching is based on the premise we must understand people before we can coach them. Flaherty asks fundamental questions rather than supply easy to apply tips and surface bandaids. Coaching is not telling people what to do; it's giving them a chance to examine what they are doing in the light of their intentions.
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The Coaching Bible

 The Coaching Bible is a practical and inspiring new book from the Uk's top coaches Ian McDermott and Wendy Jago, authors of The NLP Coach and Your Inner Coach. Coaching has become an integral part of our lives, but people still need to know how to make the most of what coaching can offer how do you distinguish between good and indifferent coaching? The Coaching Bible is the only book on coaching that you need.
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The Reflecting Glass: Professional Coaching for Leadership

This text seeks to identify the characteristics of successful leadership and shows how these qualities can be developed. "The Reflecting Glass" surveys the field of executive coaching, including its origins, the theoretical framework underpinning it, the forms it can take and the value it adds. The book provides a detailed methodology for working one-to-one with people at the top of organizations in order to help them become fully effective.
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Masterful Coaching

In this thoroughly updated edition of his classic book, Hargrove introduces you to Masterful Coaching, the method, Hargrove draws on his in-depth experience of coaching leaders at all levels gained since writing the first edition. The book provides guiding ideas, tools, and methods that will empower you on your own journey to Masterful Coaching. You will learn to empower people to transform who they are as leaders and at the same time their ability to produce results that were previously considered impossible by applying triple loop learning.
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Co-Active Coaching

Presenting an approach allowing client and coach to work together to identify both work-related and personal areas of development, this book is aimed at professional coaches who want to increase their proficiency and for those interested in integrating coaching skills into their current practice.
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The Coaching Manual

This volume combines an understanding of coaching principles, skills, attitudes and behaviours, along with practical guidance and a comprehensive tool kit for coaches
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Coaching for Performance

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".
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Coaching with NLP

A practical guide to using NLP in business and life coaching from bestselling NLP expert Joseph O'Connor. This book is suitable for both established coaches and for those who are being coached. Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) is the psychology of excellence.
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Effective Coaching

Provides details on coaching, qualities of a good coach, coaching for results, the coaching session, and coaching the coach.
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Solutions-Focused Coaching

In this carefully crafted hour-long dialogue, Solutions Focus leaders Mark McKergow and Paul Z Jackson discuss the organisational and business applications of solutions focused thinking and action. The discussion gives a lively insight into the ways in which novice and experienced Solutions Focus practitioners can apply their skills and experience to the world of business and organisations.
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COACHING AND TEAMS

Why Teams Don’t Work

The authors argue that the move to teams has failed because teams themselves are unaware of their own needs, conflicts, and peculiarities. This text is a handbook for team members and leaders to succeed, through recognizing what teams are really like, not what they ought to be.
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The Discipline of Teams

An essential guide for any small group that must deliver team performance. With the demand for project-oriented work and faster, more nimble responses, successful small-group performance is more crucial than ever. 
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Leading Your Team

This updated edition includes major new chapters on Virtual Teams since nowadays many team leaders will be faced with one of these - either as a participant or as a group that they must facilitate and inspire. 
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Coaching for Meaning: The Culture and Practice of Coaching and Team Building

This text is a translation of a management book originally published in French. Its focus is on the concept of the leader as a bearer of meaning and purpose within the organization, and the significance of this for coaching and team building. The author presents tools for the development of managers as coaches and models for how to achieve this. 
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SETTING-UP A COACHING BUSINESS

Million Dollar Consulting

The acclaimed "Million Dollar Consulting" gives consultants the tools and advice they need to grow a firm that rakes in at least 1 million dollars per year. Alan Weiss, "the consultant's consultant", shows step-by-step how to raise capital, reel in new clients, set fees, accelerate growth, and more. 
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Successful Marketing for the Small Business

Praise and reviews include: "A solid and practical guide to marketing". Big firms have marketing departments, but small firms must learn to market for themselves. If, for example, you want to supply Sainsburys (or even just clean their windows!), this fully revised fifth edition will tell you how to identify the key players and meet their needs - at a profit. 
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Selling with Integrity

Morgen offers a new sales paradigm that allows sales people to bring their values to work and still be successful. Called 'Buying-Facilitation', the approach is based on values such as mutual respect, collaboration, trust and service. The seller is responsible for supporting the buyer in discovering the best solution to his problem.
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Four Steps to Building a Profitable Coaching Practice

Are you frustrated with trying to grow and market your coaching practice? Do you feel like there is too much information (or too little) on how to market your practice, yet not enough direction on where to begin? Would you like quick answers and a complete resource guide in one place that makes marketing easy to apply and understand? This book will show you how to build and market a profitable coaching practice in four easy steps.
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Getting Started in Personal and Executive Coaching: A Guide to Building a Thriving Coaching Practice

This comprehensive, "How To" book offers the tips and tools necessary to build a successful private coaching practice from the ground up, providing sample business and marketing plans, as well as checklists, sidebars, advice on choosing a type of coaching, and information on money management.
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Flawless Consulting

Who would have thought the 'consultant's bible' could be improved upon? Count on Peter Block -the consulting profession's very own revolutionary-to push us to confront and struggle with the paradoxes inherent in our work. 
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The Trusted Advisor

 This text is the result of two years' intensive delivery at conferences, seminars and workshops around the world. It outlines the "Seven Essentials of Becoming a Trusted Advisor", aiming to produce extraordinary results from ordinary people. The authors explain how to "work wise" rather than "hard" or "smart". 
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INTERESTING BOOKS RELATED TO COACHING

The Art of Possibility

 The Art of Possibility provides a life-altering approach to fulfilling dreams large and small. The Zanders invite us all to become passionate communicators, leaders, and performers whose lives radiate possibility into the world. 
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The Solutions Focus

This book is both culture changing and life changing. The thinking that Mark and Paul present is in their own words 'SIMPLE'. And it is what they claim it to be but it is also profound. If we can learn to adopt this solutions-focused way of approaching everyday situations we will transform our work and our lives. The book is packed with thought- provoking case studies. 
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Words that Change Minds

Great for anyone who has studied NLP and wants to explore meta-programs a little deeper. Very well put together and includes some great insights into human behaviour. 
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Spiritual Intelligence

Because the authors are well researched and highly articulate, the entire book makes for intellectually, emotionally and spiritually compelling reading. Chapters include "The God Spot in the Brain", "How We Become Spiritually Stunted", "Six Paths Toward Greater Spiritual Intelligence" and "Assessing My SQ". 
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What We May Be

A complete introduction to psychosynthesis, a growth-orientated psychology, which shows how to resolve inner conflicts, free blocked energy, and identify with the highest, most noble human purposes. 
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Metaphors in Mind

Metaphors in Mind presents a broad integration of deep perspectives about helping people learn how to facilitate their own creativity in solving their own problems in their own way.
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NLP at Work

Neuro Linguistic Programming explains how you make sense of your world and how to be what you want to be. In this edition, the author explores recent developments in NLP and shows how NLP has become even more significant in our increasingly unpredictable business and personal lives.
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Emotional Intelligence in Action

"Emotional Intelligence in Action" shows how to tap the power of EI through forty-six exercises that can be used to build effective emotional skills and create real change. 
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