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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)