Books

Coach2 the bottom line:  An Executive Guide to Coaching Performance, Change & Transformation in Organizations Mike Jay, 1999

Coaching for Commitment: Interpersonal Strategies for Obtaining Superior Performance from Individuals and Teams Dennis C. Kinlaw,  2nd edition January 1999

Co-Active Coaching:  New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House and Phil Sandahl, December 1998

Masterful Coaching: Extraordinary Results by Impacting People and the Way They Think and Work Together   Robert A Hargrove   John Wiley and Sons Ltd  June 2000 ISBN: 0893842818   A book full of coaching tools and techniques aimed at developing the coach as much as the client.

Masterful Coaching Fieldbook Robert Hargrove, October 1999

Take Time for Your Life:  A Personal Coach's 7 Step Program for Creating the Life You Want Cheryl Richardson, December 1998

The Handbook of Coaching: A Comprehensive Resource Guide form Managers, Executives, Consultants, and Human Resource Professionals Frederic M. Hudson, June 1999

Work Less, Make More : Stop Working So Hard and Create the Life You Really Want!  Jennifer White, September 1999

Executive Coaching: a Purposeful Dialogue   Alison Carter   Institute for Employment Studies   ISBN: 1851843086  This is a study into why UK organisations commission executive coaching on behalf of their senior managers and directors. Executive coaching is an import from the US and there are no widely recognised professional bodies or accreditation standards for executive coaches in the UK.

The Inner Game of Work   Tim Gallwey   Cassell & Co   ISBN: 1842030159
Focusing on such often unaddressed "inner" obstacles as fear of failure and self doubt, the Inner Game concept has become an influential form of management development. Using this concept, this book provides individuals and companies with the skills they need to perform to their full potential.

Coaching for Peak Employee Performance : A practical guide to supporting employee development   Bill Foster, Karen R Seeker   Richard Chang Associates Inc US 1997   ISBN: 188355361X   Managers and supervisors need to sharpen their coaching skills if they want their employees to achieve high performance. This guidebook details what those in charge can do to develop their staff and help them met, and even exceed, organizational expectations.

Coaching for Performance: People skills for professionals   Sir John Whitmore  Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1996   ISBN: 1857881702   This handbook helps readers learn the skills and the art of good coaching, and realize its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximize their own performance. It argues for using questions, rather than instructions and commands to generate prompt action and peak performance. 

Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others   James Flaherty   Butterworth Heinemann US 1998, reprinted 2000   ISBN: 0750699035   A coaching tool which aims to enable the reader to become a business coach who can correct and self-generate their own innovations. It addresses the question: how do I contribute to someone's competence in a respectful, dignified and effective way?

Co-active Coaching: New skills for coaching people toward success in work and life   Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, Phil Sandahl   Davies-Black Publishing US 1998   ISBN: 0891061231   Co-Active Coaching offers a comprehensive view of the practice of coaching and features instructive coaching examples, professional skill-building exercises, coaching tips and traps, coaching dialogues and a coach's toolkit containing worksheets, exercises and forms to use with clients. 

Executive Coaching with backbone and heart   Mary Beth O’Neill   ISBN: 0787950165   If you've been looking for sound direction on how to coach top executives, here it is. Mary Beth O'Neill outlines the dynamic approach to coaching leaders that she's developed over the course of a 20 year career. Her unique perspective and sage advice, backed by a specific four phase methodology, gives you the means to successfully manage the coach-client relationship and effect dramatic changes that ensure the business outcomes leaders want. It's a one-of-a-kind guide for executive coaches - both aspiring and established - that fills a long-standing gap in coaching literature.

The Tao of Coaching  Max Landsberg  Harper Collins 1997  ISBN: 0006388116   Winner of the 1996 MCA Book Prize, this book is based on the programme developed by management consultancy McKinsey & Co, this work shows how to enhance workers' performance through "coaching". Step-by-step, a parable takes the reader through the different aspects of coaching, describing how to master the skills and implement them successfully.

Effective Coaching   Myles Downey   Cassell & Co   ISBN: 0752821083   An introductory primer on the fundamentals of coaching in the business environment. Using a practical, entertaining approach, the author explores key models, tools and skills necessary to develop into an effective coach. Case studies are used throughout.   

The Team Coach  Donna Deeprose  McGraw Hill 1995  ISBN: 081447859X   Recognising that supervisory roles have radically changed with the advent of self-directed work teams (SDWTs), this book turns old-style, command-and-control supervisors into team coaches, offering guidance on performing the diverse and demanding duties now expected of them. 

Coaching for Leadership   Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons, Alyssa Freas   John Wiley and Sons Ltd   ISBN: 0787955175   Today almost all managers and leaders are seeking information on coaching - what it is, what it can do, how to apply it. This book draws on these strands in a single, coherent framework. This guide should be useful for executives in the art of coaching which is easy to do but hard to get right.

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