Coaching Books
Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head
Sustaining Depth and Meaning in School Leadership: Keeping Your Head concerns the emotional and psychological experience of school leadership - in particular, the felt experience of life as a... (more)
Coaching in Depth: The Organizational Role Analysis Approach
Coaching In Depth 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... (more)
Executive Coaching: Systems-Psychodynamic Perspective
A collection of papers by well-known contemporary writers that describe their own models of coaching and their thoughts on the theoretical roots that underpin their thinking and coaching practice. (more)
Coaching Systemically: Five Ways of Thinking About Systems
This book provides an accessible and clear description of key theories of systemic coaching and how they can be applied to coaching practice.
Structured around five different ways of thinking... (more)
What Works in Executive Coaching: Understanding Outcomes Through Quantitative Research and Practice-Based Evidence
This book reviews the full coaching outcome research literature to examine the arguments and evidence behind the use of executive coaching. Erik de Haan presents the definitive guide to what works in... (more)
Coaching with Research in Mind
How can coaches maximise the effectiveness of their practice?
What can research tell us about how and why coaching 'works'?
How can we use the evidence base to enable others to reach their... (more)
The Art of Dialogue in Coaching: Towards Transformative Exchange
In The Art of Dialogue in Coaching, Reinhard Stelter invites readers to engage in transformative and fruitful dialogues in everyday working life, and provides the theory and tools for them to be able... (more)
Group and Team Coaching: The Secret Life of Groups: Second Edition
Group and Team Coaching offers a new perspective on the 'secret life of groups', the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate in groups and teams. Updated with... (more)
Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists, and Clients: A Complete Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing
In Transformational Journaling for Coaches, Therapists, and Clients: A Complete Guide to the Benefits of Personal Writing, more than 50 coaches, therapists, and journaling experts from around the... (more)
Transactional Analysis Coaching: Distinctive Features
This important book distils the essence of developmental Transactional Analysis (TA) frameworks that are most useful to bring alive professional coaching competencies. Karen Pratt offers clear... (more)
Psychodynamic Coaching: Distinctive Features
In Psychodynamic Coaching: Distinctive Features, Claudia Nagel presents a comprehensive overview of the unique features of psychodynamic coaching. As leaders and managers acknowledge the need to... (more)
Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders: Second Edition
The INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC) was founded, and is directed by Professor Kets de Vries. IGLC has helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues... (more)
Solution Focused Coaching for Adolescents: Overcoming Emotional and Behavioral Problems
Solution Focused Coaching for Adolescents explains the principles and attitude of the popular 11-step, Mission Possible, Solution Focused Coaching program for working with adolescents.
By... (more)
Facilitating Collective Intelligence: A Handbook for Trainers, Coaches, Consultants and Leaders
Chantal Neve-Hanquet and Agathe Crespel provide an accessible and ground-breaking guide to genuinely effective group work, sharing excellent hands-on assistance for coaches and facilitators. Offering... (more)
Single-Session Coaching and One-At-A-Time Coaching: Distinctive Features
In Single-Session Coaching and One-At-A-Time Coaching: Distinctive Features, Windy Dryden presents a clear and accessible overview of the theory and practice of Single-Session Coaching and... (more)
The 7Cs of Coaching: A Personal Journey Through the World of NLP and Coaching Psychology
In The 7Cs of Coaching, Bruce Grimley expertly explains neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) to the advanced coach and counsellor by asking a simple question: 'What is NLP?'. Inviting us on his... (more)
The Tao of Dialogue
Contemporary writers position ‘dialogue’ at the heart of change theory, but what do we mean by ‘dialogue’? The Tao of Dialogue explains through story what dialogue means, and how to leverage dialogic... (more)
Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching
Everything we do, and sense, happens through our brain. In Coaching the Brain: Practical Applications of Neuroscience to Coaching, highly experienced coaches Joseph O'Connor and Andrea Lages ask and... (more)
Therapy With a Coaching Edge: Partnership Action and Possibility in Every Session
Using the skills outlined in this book, clinicians learn to advance the pace of therapy by bringing in a coaching mindset as they ask clients to do and be more. Therapists will learn how to challenge... (more)
Gestalt Psychotherapy and Coaching for Relationships
Gestalt Psychotherapy and Coaching for Relationships provides psychotherapists and coaches with a thorough understanding of two-person dynamics and offers practical interventions for working with... (more)
Mindfulness for Coaches: An experiential guide
Mindfulness for Coaches accessibly presents theory and research on the benefits of mindfulness training and explores how mindfulness can feature in coaching work. Michael Chaskalson and Mark McMordie... (more)
The Coaching Relationship in Practice
This book explores that which is at the very heart of coaching: the coach-coachee relationship. Considering the relationship at each stage of the coaching process, it will equip your trainees with... (more)
You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger: Executive Coaching Challenges
You don't have to be mad to work here - but it helps! Sometimes that's more than just a tedious joke. As anyone who has worked as an executive coach knows, sometimes people who hold very senior and... (more)
Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training
Becoming a Professional Life Coach introduced readers to coaching fundamentals - listening skills, effective language, session preparation - as well as more advanced concepts such as helping clients... (more)
Swings and Roundabouts: A Self-Coaching Workbook for Parents and Those Considering Becoming Parents
The first two authors of this coaching workbook are themselves parents who have been on a journey of “swings and roundabouts” – experienced the highs and lows of having children. Having difficulties... (more)
The Coaching Kaleidoscope: Insights from the Inside
This book deals with how coaching interventions can drive a journey of transformational change at individual, team, and organizational levels. As a result, coaching interventions serve to create more... (more)
Executive Coaching: A Psychodynamic Approach
This beautifully-written book, by one of the UK’s most experienced and highly-regarded executive coaches, provides a clear and concise introduction to psychodynamic concepts and their practical... (more)
Coaching People with Asperger's Syndrome
This book arises from a lifetime's practical experience of work with people with Asperger's syndrome and autism. People with Asperger's syndrome easily drop through the net and fall into the wrong... (more)
Coaching with NLP: How to Be a Master Coach
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.... (more)
Coaching Psychology: Constructivist Approaches
Coaching Psychology: Constructivist Approaches presents a comprehensive overview of constructivist approaches to individual, group and team coaching. Jelena Pavlovic introduces key ideas and explores... (more)