Coaching from A to Z and back again

A clear and intelligent guide for anyone who wants to engage in effective coaching conversations.

Written by an experienced coach, mentor and mediator, this book is perfect for developing your coaching skills by drawing on ideas, tools and models to help you engage in effective coaching conversations.

It takes ideas from a variety of approaches to coaching and explores issues such as ethics, coaching as a line manager, boundaries and qualifications/accreditation. It summarises key ideas from the literature on management, leadership, psychology and personal effectiveness, as well as coaching.

Written in 52 short accessible chapters from A to Z and back again, it is a clear and engaging guide that can be read from beginning to end, or dipped in to as appropriate. Critical questions throughout help the reader to reflect on their own knowledge and apply it to their work or studies. This book is ideal for students on coaching programmes, people working as a coach, consultants, learning and development practitioners, and managers at all levels from supervisor to director.

Autorentext

Bob Thomson is a Professor at Warwick Business School. He has many years of experience working in leadership and management development in the energy industry and in higher education. He is accredited as a coach and supervisor by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council, and is a qualified and experienced mediator. He has written eight previous books on coaching, managing people, and learning from experience. He is the editor of Critical Publishing's Business in Mind series of books on mental well-being in the workplace.

Inhalt

A Awareness + Responsibility = Performance ABCDE model. CBC and Acceptance and commitment coaching B Boundaries Being a coach C Culture Contracting and confidentiality D Don't Just Do Something, Sit There Debate and dialogue E Emotional intelligence Ethics F Feedback Facilitation G GROW model Growing People H How to Coach How not to coach I The inner game of coaching Impostor syndrome Judgement Journey Kolb learning cycle Kantor's languages. Meetings L Listening Letting go M Mentoring Managing people - coaching as a line manager N Note taking and keeping Neuroscience and the Chimp Paradox O I'm OK, You're OK Objectives, obstacles, options and outcomes P Playing back Psychometrics Q Questioning Qualifications and accreditation R Coaching as a relationship Rich pictures (and other tools?) S Supervision Solution-focused coaching T Teams Time management U Understanding Yourself and Others Use of self V Voicing Values in Action. Positive Psychology W Writing Why? X Xtraverts and Introverts Xploring metaphors Y Theory Y and Theory X Your own practice Z Zoom Zone of proximal development