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 the Creative Impulse: Psychological Dynamics and Professional Creativity
In Coaching the Creative Impulse, Thea Mikkelsen presents an accessible and engaging guide to understanding and utilising creativity at work. This unique book will give professionals and creative... (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 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)
Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual
Hawkins and Turner argue that coaching needs to step up to deliver value to all the stakeholders of the coachee, including those they lead, colleagues, investors, customers, partners, their local... (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)
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)
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)
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 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)
Love and Loneliness at Work: An Inspirational Guide for Consultants, Leaders and Other Professionals
Love and loneliness, in both their presence and absence, are key aspects of our lives - including our working lives.
Love and Loneliness at Work offers an accessible and practical... (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)
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)
The Coaching Starter Kit
For therapists, consultants, and other service professionals interested in learning how to expand their practices by offering coaching services, as well as non-therapists interested in developing a... (more)
Coaching in Professional Contexts
Have your students mastered the underlining theory and skills of coaching practice but wanting to get a flavour of what coaching actually looks like in different real-life settings? Then you have... (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)
Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation
Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation is for managers, leaders and coaches interested in extending the practice of coaching to achieve broader organisational outcomes. The... (more)
Neuropsychology for Coaches: Understanding the Basics
Neuroscience is revolutionising coaching: it helps us understand the biological basis of our behaviour. This includes the behaviour of the coach and the client. This practical and much needed book... (more)
The Cross-Cultural Coaching Kaleidoscope: A Systems Approach to Coaching Amongst Different Cultural Influences
Coaching has emerged from a Western, largely Anglo-American, perspective that may not be appropriate across cultures, given the multi-cultural nature of societies and workplaces today and the working... (more)
Coaching in Education: Getting Better Results for Students, Educators, and Parents
Coaching in Education: Getting Better Results for Students, Educators and Parents will support educational organisations in learning more about the current interest in coaching approaches within... (more)
Psychodynamic Coaching: Focus and Depth
In a postmodern age we all need a room of our own. A room – or space – where we can explore and reflect on how the rapidly changing world affects us. A room where it is possible to get a feeling of... (more)
The Psychology of Executive Coaching: Theory and Application: Second Edition
Coaching has become an important way for psychotherapists and other mental health professionals to adapt their skills to a changing environment. This book provides a comprehensive translation of... (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)
Inside Creativity Coaching: 40 Inspiring Case Studies from Around the World
In Inside Creativity Coaching, 40 creativity coaches from around the world describe their work with creative clients in this first-ever case study examination of the art and practice of creativity... (more)
Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Coaching: An Evidence-Based Framework
Based on over a decade of sustained longitudinal research with a broad range of different user groups, Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy and Coaching: An Evidence-Based Framework is an essential guide... (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 Art of Listening in Coaching and Mentoring
This book answers a number of fundamental questions about listening in coaching and mentoring. What difference does being heard make to the speaker? How does it have that effect? What are the... (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)