Excellence in Coaching: Theory, Tools and Techniques to Achieve Outstanding Coaching Performance

by Jonathan Passmore (Editor), (AC) Association for Coaching (Editor)

Overview

How can you achieve coaching excellence? Use the latest research and insights from some of the biggest industry names in this fully revised fourth edition, which provides a diverse range of theory, tools and models for students and practicing coaches alike.

Excellence in Coaching is a comprehensive guide presenting the latest cutting-edge thinking in the field of workplace coaching. Published with the Association for Coaching, this book covers all key components of the coaching process, and examines a diverse range of coaching models including behavioural and transpersonal coaching, enabling coaches and trainers to adapt their approach and excel in their professional practice.

With updates to incorporate the latest thinking and insights, this revised fourth edition of Excellence in Coaching also contains a wealth of fresh material, including new chapters on establishing a coaching business, neuroscience coaching, psychodynamic coaching and understanding the coaching relationship. Featuring tips, checklists and tools, and a collection of best-practice material from some of the biggest names in the profession including Sir John Whitmore, Peter Hawkins and David Clutterbuck. This remains essential reading for practising coaches as well as for students.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781789665482
Publisher:	Kogan Page, Ltd.
Publication date:	02/03/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	392
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Jonathan Passmore is the Director of The Henley Centre for Coaching at Henley Business School, University of Reading. He works with leaders from business, politics and the public sector to help them improve individual, team and organizational performance through coaching. He is also an award-winning researcher, a regular international conference speaker, and the author and editor of a number of publications and books, including Leadership Coaching and Mastery in Coaching, also published by Kogan Page.

Professor Jonathan Passmore is a business psychologist with five degrees and has an international reputation for his work in coaching, change and leadership. He has published over twenty books on the themes of leadership, personal development and change, including editing the Association for Coaching series of coaching titles. He consults and speaks at conferences across the world from the US to Europe and Asia.

Jonathan Passmore has written more than 100 peer review research papers and book chapters and has won several awards including the 2010 AC Global Coaching Award for his contribution to practice and research and the Association for Business Psychologists Chairmans Award in 2015. You can find out more about his writing, speaking and research at www.jonathanpassmore.com

The Association for Coaching (AC) is an independent, non-profit professional body with the goal to advance the profession of coaching worldwide. Its members are made up of professional coaches, providers of coaching, and organizations building coaching cultures in over 90 countries. The AC is headquartered in London, UK.

Table of Contents

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
• Section - Part One: The business of coaching;
• • Chapter - 01: The development of coaching;
  • Chapter - 02: What is coaching?;
  • Chapter - 03: Coaching within organizations;
  • Chapter - 04: Leveraging the coaching investment;
  • Chapter - 05: Setting up and running your coaching practice;
• Section - Part Two: Coaching models and approaches;
• • Chapter - 06: Coaching with the GROW model;
  • Chapter - 07: Solution-focused coaching;
  • Chapter - 08: Cognitive behavioural coaching;
  • Chapter - 09: Transpersonal coaching;
  • Chapter - 10: Appreciative Coaching: pathway to flourishing;
  • Chapter - 11: Integrative coaching;
• Section - Part Three: Coaching issues;
• • Chapter - 12: Intercultural coaching;
  • Chapter - 13: Coaching and stress;
  • Chapter - 14: Coaching ethics: integrity in the moment of choice;
  • Chapter - 15: Coaching supervision;
  • Chapter - 16: Evaluating coaching programmes;
  • Chapter - 17: Coach accreditation;
  • Chapter - 18: Team coaching;
  • Chapter - 19: Goal setting in coaching;
  • Chapter - 20: Association for Coaching;
  • Chapter - 21: Index;

Editorial Reviews

"An outstanding resource! Excellence in Coaching has deservedly become one of the field's foremost textbooks, relevant to both practitioners and learners of coaching."

Professor Christian J van Nieuwerburgh

"If you only have one coaching book on your shelf, this is the one to have."

Resource Magazine

"Anyone who invests in this book will not feel cheated."

Training and Coaching Today

"Offers a breadth of perspectives on the subject... Written by experts in the different fields, it leaves the reader to judge which of these various methods are the most appropriate for their particular needs."

People Management

"The variety of chapter contributions is commendable and the cumulative effect is both affirming and edifying."

Dr Elaine Cox