2nd Edition

Essential Life Coaching Skills

By Angela Dunbar Copyright 2026
218 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

218 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Essential Life Coaching Skills provides a comprehensive guide to the complete range and depth of skills required to succeed as a life coach. This revised edition has been updated to reflect changes in the coaching profession in recent years and includes fresh material that highlights the impact of technological advancements that now support coaching, such as web conferencing, digital marketing... Read more

Table of Contents:

List of figures     

Foreword by Carol Wilson

Acknowledgements     

Introduction        

Life coaching in the UK – the story so far    

Providing a life coaching service    

Life coaching case studies

The life coaching process 

Skills within the wider context       

Relationship-building skills            

Listening skills   

Questioning skills             

Intuitive skills    

Challenging skills             

Motivating skills

Marketing skills 

Understanding the difference between coaching and therapy   

Developing your skills             

Index    

Biography

Angela Dunbar is a highly experienced coach and coach supervisor, accredited with the Association for Coaching and a lifelong fellow. As a former council member, she held the position of Head of Professional Forums and was instrumental in setting up and developing co-coaching forums and professional development events throughout the UK. Angela is the author of Essential Life Coaching Skills (2009) and Clean Coaching: The Insider Guide to Making Change Happen (2016).

Praise for the first edition:

'This is a refreshing new take on areas which have been explored in other books… this book provides an entertaining and easy to follow guide to what coaching is, what it does, how it works and where to go for the next stage of the journey.' 

Carol Wilson, from the Foreword