The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You

The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You offers practical guidance on how to adopt a coaching mindset and how to build a coaching skill set to unlock better communication, stronger relationships, and high performance in others.

Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help readers think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond. The book offers specific and tangible advice for readers to develop their coaching and communication skills, while also developing a deeper understanding of themselves.

The Coaching Shift, with its clear tone, anecdotal references, and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, and for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. These concepts and practices are also relevant for anyone who wants to have more effective interactions with others.

Review:

"Shonna D. Waters & Brodie Gregory Riordan have done an extraordinary job of capturing the tools, techniques, and fundamentals needed to successfully build out impactful coaching skills. Their content is deeply pragmatic; through stories, examples, and reflection exercises Coaching Skills empowers readers to unlock one's potential to show up as more curious, present, engaged, and supportive with others. This is a must-read book for anyone who wants to up-level their ability to manage in an organization, lead a team, engage a business partner, or navigate a relationship."