Coaching Resources

This handbook will help you learn the skills, and the art, of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximaize their own performance. The new edition of this guide has detailed advice on avoiding a 'blame culture' and fostering empowered performance. It contains extensive examples of effective questions for generating awareness and responsiblity - questions which compel the coachee to think, demand high resolution focus, are descriptive not judgemental, and provide the coach with a feedback loop. there are new sections on motivation and building self-esteem through coaching, feedback and feedforward, and a brand new chapter on learning and enjoyment.

The Portable Coach: 28 Surefire Strategies for Business and Personal Success: Thomas Leonard

Want to be more successful, happier, wealthier? You could hire a personal coach: a business and personal-growth mentor who consults with you, offering advice and insights. Or you could read this book by Thomas Leonard, the "father of personal coaching" and founder of Coach U, a virtual university that trains coaches from 30 countries. In his lively The Portable Coach, Leonard presents 28 principles to help you shape your life, career, and relationships so that they are satisfying and profitable, with 10 ways to accomplish each principle, and additional tips and self-tests. Flip through the book until you land on just the right tip for what you need to learn right now, or take a progressive journey through the book, putting the tips into action as you go. The Portable Coach bursts with more immediately useful, personally relevant suggestions than you can possibly use. It should expand your mind, improve your performance, enhance your relationships (business and personal), help you enjoy life more, and give you many swift kicks toward becoming your best.

Coaching: The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook

The ASTD Trainer's Sourcebook Series presents complete toolkits and instructions for creating effective, personalized training programs. Each individual sourcebook-written by an expert trainer in the field-contains everything needed to design and conduct training sessions. Developed in association with the American Society for Training and Development, this season's entries cover some of the hottest topics in training, from business process improvement to strategic management.

Personal Coaching for Results: How to Mentor and Inspire Others to Amazing Growth: Lou Tice

For over 25 years, Lou Tice has been in the business of teaching people how to succeed. In this book, he gives readers the inside information they need to mentor and inspire those around them. I have read lots of motivational books, and this was one of the most inspiring. The book is chock full of practical suggestions for getting your own house in order and, then, for helping others to do the same. Lou Tice has a wonderful way of taking complex topic and making them very easy to understand, but better yet apply it. The concepts are solid and very well researched. This book can help you personally and professionally.

Take Yourself To The Top: Laura Berman Fortgang

One of the best concept books out there on optimizing or changing your career. How to leap out of that mid-career rut. How to achieve the elusive gift of self-discipline. How to completely and honestly assess your career's progress. How to identify obstacles that keep you from reaching your goals. Why some new ventures are doomed from day one, and what today's entrepreneur must do to make a profit. Why "bosses'" fail, but coaches succeed. Filled with ideas and concepts you can immediately apply to jump-start your life.