Coaching Books
Introduction to Career Counselling and Coaching
This book offers a practical introduction for those training in the field of career development, career counselling and career coaching, this book will take your students through established and... (more)
You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger: Executive Coaching Challenges
You don't have to be mad to work here - but it helps! Sometimes that's more than just a tedious joke. As anyone who has worked as an executive coach knows, sometimes people who hold very senior and... (more)
Coach and Couch: The Psychology of Making Better Leaders: Second Edition
The INSEAD Global Leadership Centre (IGLC) was founded, and is directed by Professor Kets de Vries. IGLC has helped thousands of executives to increase their effectiveness in dealing with colleagues... (more)
Ambivalence in Mentorship
Ambivalence in Mentorship is based on research of scores of mentors and protégés in longstanding relationships representing a range of career fields. Using vivid case narratives, the book takes a... (more)
The Art of Coaching: A Handbook of Tips and Tools
The Art of Coaching is a book to shift thinking and open up new possibilities, to stimulate fresh insight, to adapt to your needs as a coach or manager and to use creatively in practice. Written by... (more)
Life Coaching for Kids: A Practical Manual to Coach Children and Young People to Success, Well-Being and Fulfilment
Life coaching is a great way to help children and young people build self-esteem, set positive goals and deal with difficult issues such as bullying, anxiety and poor body image. This book sets out... (more)
Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training
Becoming a Professional Life Coach introduced readers to coaching fundamentals - listening skills, effective language, session preparation - as well as more advanced concepts such as helping clients... (more)
Interactional Leadership and How to Coach it: The Art of the Choice-Focused Leader
All leaders make choices, but not all leaders are choice-focused. In Interactional Leadership and How to Coach It: The Art of the Choice-Focused Leader Michael Harvey presents an important new theory... (more)
Relationship Coaching: The Theory and Practice of Coaching with Singles, Couples and Parents
Relationship Coaching provides a comprehensive guide to coaching to achieve relationship success and enrichment in three main areas: to help single people to form and secure stable relationships, to... (more)
Brief Coaching with Children and Young People: A Solution Focused Approach
Brief Coaching with Children and Young People: A Solution Focused Approach is the first book of its type to describe the thinking and practice of Solution Focused coaching with these age groups. The... (more)
Provocative Coaching: Making Things Better by Making Them Worse
A highly practical book that provides a theoretical framework on the workings of provocative coaching for all therapists. A fresh wind is blowing through the worlds of coaching and psychotherapy!... (more)
Archetypal Imagery and the Spiritual Self: Techniques for Coaches and Therapists
Combining psychology and spirituality, this practical book considers archetypes from Asian, Middle Eastern and European myths and explains how they can be used in therapeutic practice to help clients... (more)
Mindful Leadership Coaching: Journeys into the Interior
World-renowned leadership expert Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries draws on his extensive experience in group leadership coaching to provide an in-depth look at the coaching process through the lens of... (more)
Coaching Supervision at its B.E.S.T.
Coaching Supervision at its B.E.S.T. contains clear strategies and real life case studies and can be used in all settings where there is a need for effective and efficient coaching supervision. The... (more)
Coaching in Islamic Culture: The Principles and Practice of Ershad
This book is the result of a collaboration between two authors who share a passion and commitment for coaching. Its aim is to enthuse readers and provide guidance about the appropriate use of... (more)
An Asperger Leader's Guide to Living and Leading Change
People with Asperger Syndrome (AS) often struggle with change and this is magnified when it is part of their professional role to manage and lead change. Written by a business leader with Asperger... (more)
Coaching Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide
Coaching Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide takes an in-depth look at the applications and everyday challenges faced by real-world practitioners of coaching and mentoring psychology, and is ideal as... (more)
The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning
The Psychology of Coaching, Mentoring and Learning addresses the psychological principles upon which organizational and industrial coaching and mentoring is based. The new edition of this text is... (more)
Coaching and Mentoring for Business
This book focuses on the contribution that coaching can make to human resource strategy and organizational strategy. Grace McCarthy includes an introduction to coaching and mentoring theory, and then... (more)
The Career Coaching Handbook
Uniquely combining the latest research into careers with the most up to date coaching approaches, Julia Yates shows how to effectively apply coaching techniques to the world of career support.... (more)
Mindful Coaching: How Mindfulness Can Transform Coaching Practice
Mindfulness is a way of paying attention to the present moment, helping us become more aware of our thoughts and feelings so that instead of being overwhelmed by them, we're better able to manage... (more)
Supporting the Family Business: A Coaching Practitioner's Handbook
This book aims to offer evidence-based discussion on appropriate coaching skills for family business. The book is expected to meet the demand for this knowledge base, and to achieve a practical... (more)
Personal Consultancy: A Model for Integrating Counselling and Coaching
Making the case for an integrated approach to the practices of counselling, psychotherapy and coaching, Personal Consultancy provides a coherent and systematic framework for working with clients.... (more)
The Coach's Mind Manual: Enhancing Coaching Practice with Neuroscience, Psychology and Mindfulness
The Coach's Mind Manual combines the latest findings from neuroscience, psychology, and mindfulness research to provide an accessible framework to help coaches and leadership development specialists... (more)
Business Coaching International: Transforming Individuals and Organizations: Second Edition
'You simply must read this book if you are serious about being a top-notch business coach. It is an excellent guide to best practices based on clear theory, experience and business wisdom.'
- Carol... (more)
Essential Career Transition Coaching Skills
Career moves (even positive ones) can be disruptive for the individual, and the psychological impact of changing roles or careers is often underestimated. Career transition coaching is a relatively... (more)
The Five Minute Coach: Improve Performance - Rapidly
The Five-Minute Coach offers a simple, but very effective, step by step guide to coach quickly and effortlessly with amazing results. Short, punchy and easy to read, the user can swiftly learn this... (more)
Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation
Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation is for managers, leaders and coaches interested in extending the practice of coaching to achieve broader organisational outcomes. The... (more)
Coaching with Meaning and Spirituality
Coaching with Meaning and Spirituality aims to help coaches with those occasions where a clients' search for meaning needs to be addressed and explored. Working with spirituality in a coaching... (more)
Coaching and Mentoring: A Critical Text
Coaching is often discussed as if it is a new 'profession' without adequate attention to how it has evolved, what underpins its practice or its training methods. Situating coaching in a wider social... (more)