Coaching Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. The Routledge Companion to International Business Coaching

   Edited by Michel Moral, Geoffrey Abbott

   An effective coach can help the business leader make sense of the challenges and complexities of modern international business, unlocking the potential of both leader and organization. This important handbook offers the first comprehensive and detailed introduction to the theory and practice of...

   Published January 3rd 2011 by Routledge
5. Encouragement Makes Good Things Happen

   By Theo Schoenaker

   Available in English for the first time, Encouragement Makes Good Things Happen is a translation of the bestselling German book Mut Tut Gut. It describes a courageous and encouraging style of living and focuses on the belief that human encouragement is the most important natural ingredient for the...

   Published December 21st 2010 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. Dealing with Clients’ Emotional Problems in Life Coaching

   A Rational-Emotive and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT) Approach

   By Windy Dryden

   This book is a comprehensive guide for life coaches on how to react and adapt when emotional problems get in the way of coaching. Windy Dryden uses Rational-Emotive Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (RECBT) techniques to offer advice on: when it is and is not appropriate to work on emotional problems...

   Published August 19th 2010 by Routledge
9. Coaching Models: A Cultural Perspective

   A Guide to Model Development: for Practitioners and Students of Coaching

   By Diane Lennard

   "In addition to providing an extensive analysis of strategies for changing performance and the factors that can impact coaching effectiveness, this book offers what may be a unique value: instead of promoting one approach as the best, Dr. Lennard guides readers through a highly customized process...

   Published April 20th 2010 by Routledge
10. 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