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Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Series Editor: Gladeana McMahon, Stephen Palmer, Averil Leimon

The Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge series provides an accessible and lively introduction to key areas in the developing field of coaching.

Each book in the series is written by leading coaches with extensive experience and has a strong practical emphasis, including illustrative vignettes, summary boxes, exercises and activities.

Assuming no prior knowledge, these books will appeal to professionals in business, management, human resources, psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, as well as students and tutors of coaching and coaching psychology.

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Solution Focused Coaching in Practice

By Bill O'Connell, Stephen Palmer, Helen Williams

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Solution Focused Coaching in Practice is a practical ‘how-to’ guide that provides an invaluable overview of Solution Focused Coaching skills and techniques. Reflecting upon published research on the solution focused approach, Bill O’Connell, Stephen Palmer and Helen Williams bring their own...

Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
Interactional Coaching

Choice-focused Learning at Work

By Michael Harvey

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Interactional Coaching is a powerful, one-to-one learning approach, used successfully for over fifteen years, that enables executives to make the choices that work for them. Drawing on existential philosophy, psychotherapy and business theory, interactional coaching uses innovative techniques...

Published February 20th 2012 by Routledge
Brief Coaching

A Solution Focused Approach

By Chris Iveson, Evan George, Harvey Ratner

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Brief Coaching offers a new approach to coaching by considering how the client will know when they have reached their goal, and what they are already doing to get there. The coach aims to work towards the solution rather than working away from the problem, so that the client's problem is not...

Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice

An Evidence Based Approach

Edited by Michael Neenan, Stephen Palmer

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Cognitive Behavioural Coaching in Practice explores various aspects of coaching from within a cognitive behavioural framework. Michael Neenan and Stephen Palmer bring together experts in the field to discuss topics including: procrastination stress performance self-esteem perfectionism goal...

Published November 29th 2011 by Routledge
Developmental Coaching

Life Transitions and Generational Perspectives

Edited by Stephen Palmer, Sheila Panchal

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Developmental Coaching explores many of the common transition points we experience throughout life, including teenage transitions, becoming a parent, mid-life and retirement. The book sets these transitions in their social context and reviews them in the light of generational factors. The book is...

Published November 16th 2010 by Routledge
Coaching Women to Lead

By Averil Leimon, François Moscovici, Helen Goodier

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Coaching Women to Lead asks why, in the 21st century, there is still such a disparity in the number of women filling leadership roles, compared with men. It argues that a specific coaching approach for women is not only possible but required to support women throughout their corporate career. In...

Published August 30th 2010 by Routledge
Group and Team Coaching

The Essential Guide

By Christine Thornton

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

This book offers a new perspective on the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate with each other in groups. Describing these processes in the context of modern organisational life, it provides practical advice about how to do group and team coaching....

Published March 4th 2010 by Routledge
101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques

Edited by Gladeana McMahon, Anne Archer

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

101 Coaching Strategies and Techniques provides focused, practical strategies to help the coach with their work. Each point provides a detailed explanation of the strategy together with potential pitfalls and solutions. Contributors from a range of coaching backgrounds are brought together to cover...

Published February 23rd 2010 by Routledge
The Coaching Relationship

Putting People First

Edited by Stephen Palmer, Almuth McDowall

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

The Coaching Relationship discusses how we can integrate process perspectives such as the quality of the coach-coachee relationship, and professional perspectives including the influences of training and supervision, for more effective outcomes. Stephen Palmer and Almuth McDowall bring together...

Published December 3rd 2009 by Routledge
Essential Life Coaching Skills

By Angela Dunbar

Series: Essential Coaching Skills and Knowledge

Essential Life Coaching Skills provides a comprehensive guide to the complete range and depth of skills required to succeed as a life coach. Angela Dunbar uses theoretical background alongside practical examples to provide a clear understanding of what makes a successful life coach. This book...

Published August 4th 2009 by Routledge