Business Coaching International: Transforming Individuals and Organizations

by Sunny Stout-Rostron

Overview

"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 Kauffman PhD, co-founder and Director of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Initiative at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice.

"This is an extraordinarily thorough book. It covers a great range of practical guidance on matters that will concern the new coach and addresses a wide range of approaches to coaching while remaining firmly embedded in an experiential learning tradition."- David Megginson, Professor of Human Resource Development, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781782200970
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/16/2014
Series:	The Professional Coaching Series
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Sunny Stout-Rostron is a director of the Manthano Institute of Learning (Pty) Ltd and a founding faculty member of The Coaching Centre (TCC) in Cape Town. She is also founding chair of the Working Group on a Research Agenda for Development of the Field within the Global Convention on Coaching, research advisor to the Institute of Coaching at Harvard and Founding President of the professional association Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA). She has developed a range of international programs in the corporate, legal and education fields, and is the author of six books including Accelerating Performance: Powerful New Techniques to Develop People and Managing Training.

Table of Contents

Preface , Foreword to the Second Edition , About the Authors , About this book , The business coaching process , The coaching conversation , Working with question frameworks , Exploring and understanding coaching models , Diversity, culture and gender , Existential and experiential learning issues , Supervision, contracting and ethical concerns , Developing a body of knowledge—coaching research , Integration and synthesis , Competences in Business Coaching

Editorial Reviews

"This is an extraordinarily thorough book. It covers a great range of practical guidance on matters that will concern the new coach [and] addresses a wide range of approaches to coaching while remaining firmly embedded in an experiential learning tradition."

David Megginson

"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 Kauffman PhD

I am struck by the incredible generosity of this book….a rich and thorough blend of theoretical understanding and practical wisdom, delivered in a way that is highly accessible and of considerable value to experienced and inexperienced business coaches alike. It is a very welcome addition to my library!

Gordon Spence PhD MAPS

The world of business coaching can rejoice–the book we have been wanting and needing is here. This book harnesses the vast and complex world of excellence in coaching and offers it to us digestibly, delectably and with impressively accessible scholarship.”

Nancy Kline

This book is an important milestone in the coaching literature….Coaching has long needed a comprehensive guide and reference book, and now it has one.

Sir John Whitmore PhD

This is a masterful work that enables anyone who wishes to coach, whether they are a peer coach or an executive, to find guidelines as well as skills, tools, attitudes and behaviors that become developmental building blocks in any good coaching process. This is a must-read, essential for anyone wishing to help others in any corporate, educational or group setting. Very inspiring to read.

Mark R. Rittenberg EdD

"This is an extraordinarily thorough book. It covers a great range of practical guidance on matters that will concern the new coach [and] addresses a wide range of approaches to coaching while remaining firmly embedded in an experiential learning tradition."

“This is a masterful work that enables anyone who wishes to coach, whether they are a peer coach or an executive, to find guidelines as well as skills, tools, attitudes and behaviors that become developmental building blocks in any good coaching process. This is a must-read, essential for anyone wishing to help others in any corporate, educational or group setting. Very inspiring to read.”

“This book is an important milestone in the coaching literature….Coaching has long needed a comprehensive guide and reference book, and now it has one.”

“The world of business coaching can rejoice–the book we have been wanting and needing is here. This book harnesses the vast and complex world of excellence in coaching and offers it to us digestibly, delectably and with impressively accessible scholarship.”

“I am struck by the incredible generosity of this book….a rich and thorough blend of theoretical understanding and practical wisdom, delivered in a way that is highly accessible and of considerable value to experienced and inexperienced business coaches alike. It is a very welcome addition to my library!

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