Mastering Life Coaching: A Comprehensive Guide for Professional Coaches


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Welcome to "Mastering Life Coaching: A Comprehensive Guide for Professional Coaches." This book is a definitive resource crafted specifically for dedicated life coaches who strive to excel in their profession and make a profound impact on the lives of their clients. In today's fast-paced and complex world, individuals seek guidance and support to navigate their personal and professional challenges, discover their potential, and achieve their goals. As a life coach, you possess the unique ability to guide and empower individuals on their transformative journeys of self-discovery, growth, and fulfilment. "Mastering Life Coaching" is a comprehensive exploration of the art and science of life coaching, meticulously crafted to provide you with the tools, knowledge, and insights necessary to elevate your coaching practice to new heights. Whether you are an experienced practitioner or embarking on your coaching career, this book will serve as your trusted companion, illuminating the path to coaching mastery. This book goes beyond the basics, delving into the core competencies and advanced techniques that define exceptional life coaching. Through its pages, you will gain a deep understanding of the essence of life coaching, the power of effective communication, the art of goal setting, and the value of assessment tools and techniques. You will also explore the crucial ethical considerations and professionalism required in the coaching relationship.




The Coaches' Handbook


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This comprehensive practitioner guide provides an accessible evidenced based approach aimed at those new to coaching and who may be undertaking coach training for a certificate in coaching or professional credentials or accreditation with the AC, ICF, EMCC, CMI or ILM. The book will also be useful for those who want to enhance their coaching skills. The Coaches Handbook is edited by Jonathan Passmore, an internationally respected expert and executive coach, with chapters from leading coaching practitioners from across the world. The book is divided into seven sections. Section one examines the nature of coaching, its boundaries, the business case for coaching and how organisations can build a coaching culture. Section two focuses on deepening our self-understanding and understanding our clients, the non-violent communications mindset and the coaching relationship. Section three focuses on the key skills needed for coaching including goal setting, powerful questions, active listening, using direct communications and the role of silence, emotions and challenge in coaching. Section four offers a range of coaching approaches including behavioural, person-centred, solution-focused, psychodynamic, neuroscience, narrative, positive psychology, out-door eco-coaching, team coaching, careers coaching and integrated coaching. Section five focuses on fundamental issues in coaching such as ethics and contracting and evaluation. Section six explores continuous professional development, reflection and the role of supervision, as well as how to establish your coaching business. The final section contains a host of coaching tools which practitioners can use to broaden their practice. Unique in its scope, this key text will be essential reading for coaches, academics and students of coaching. It is an important text for anyone seeking to understand the best practice approaches that can be applied to their coaching practice, including human resources, learning and development and management professionals, and executives in a coaching role.




Mastering Coaching


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Coaching is one of the most sought-after leadership skills - vital for anyone who wants to develop a team of people who will perform effectively, but are also motivated and relish working together. It's also a dynamic discipline which, in recent years, has developed and grown to embrace theory and practice from a wide range of other disciplines, frameworks and models. Mastering Coaching starts by asking what skills an effective coach must now possess to boost the performance of their coachees. In response, it summarises the most important research in areas such as neuroscience, sports psychology and mindfulness, positive psychology, mastery and goal-setting and offers a clear, simple and practical guide to how this new thinking can help coaches and managers to develop their own coaching practice. Written by Max Landsberg, executive coaching and professional development expert and author of the perennial bestseller The Tao of Coaching, Mastering Coaching goes beyond the basics of coaching by providing insights which offer a proven route map to coaching success. Practical and jargon-free, the book will equip readers with the techniques and tools necessary to take their coaching to the next level.




Coaching Mastery


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Coaching Mastery : The ULTIMATE "Blueprint" for Tennis Coaches, Tennis Parents, and Tennis-teaching Professionals. Learn how to: Attract tennis players to your program, develop sustainable tennis programs, and build perennial championship teams and successful individuals. Following the world-wide embrace of David W. Smith's book, TENNIS MASTERY, David now brings his "Advanced Foundation" to the art of coaching and teaching tennis. For the High School, Club or Team Coach, from the highly experienced to the uninitiated, Coaching Mastery is a PROVEN "blueprint" to attracting players and designing highly effective and efficient tennis practices. For the Tennis Parent: Regardless of your tennis experience, Coaching Mastery will provide a clear and proven method to make sure you are providing your child the right progression and patterns of play to insure they will reach their personal best...and do it in a way that makes it fun for both parent and child! For the Tennis-teaching Professional: Coaching Mastery provides a lifetime of successful tennis club programming and teaching experience, a resource to enhance any teaching professional's teaching program. Coaching Mastery provides over 70 effective drills and dozens of ideas that allow any coach or teacher to get the most out of their tennis opportunities. In addition, Coaching Mastery provides the "Advanced Foundation" principles that define every shot and every stroke in the sport.




‘Feck Off Depression’


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Depression often arrives uninvited, akin to a silent intruder that slips through the back door of our consciousness. At first, its presence may be subtle, manifesting as a vague sense of unease or restlessness. Yet, as it settles in, its influence becomes more pronounced, casting a shadow over every facet of life. Its symptoms are as diverse as the individuals it afflicts, encompassing emotional, cognitive, and physical dimensions. This book will look into the complex landscape of depression, unravelling its many facets and providing insights into its various forms, from major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder to the cyclical highs and lows of bipolar disorder. We will explore the factors that can contribute to depression, including life events, childhood trauma, chronic stress, and the interplay between mental and physical health.




Leading in Healthcare: Management and Leadership in the UK and Ireland


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This book is specifically tailored to healthcare management and leadership in the UK and Ireland. It provides a comprehensive overview of the unique aspects of healthcare systems in these countries, including key stakeholders, regulations, and challenges. By incorporating real-world examples and case studies from the UK and Ireland healthcare context, readers will gain practical insights and strategies to excel in managing and leading healthcare organizations in these regions. In an ever-evolving landscape, healthcare systems play a crucial role in ensuring the well-being and quality of life for individuals in the United Kingdom (UK) and Ireland. The provision of effective and efficient healthcare services requires adept management and visionary leadership that can navigate the complexities of this dynamic sector. "Leading in Healthcare: Management and Leadership in the UK and Ireland" delves into the intricacies of healthcare management and leadership within these specific contexts, offering a comprehensive guide to healthcare professionals and aspiring leaders.




Executive Coaching for Results


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The field of executive coaching is growing at an astonishing rate. Corporations are increasingly turning to coaching as an intervention, as it offers leaders and managers both on-the-job learning and built-in follow-up. But how can you make the best use of coaching within your organization? Executive Coaching for Results helps this critical leadership development method come of age. This is not a “how-to-coach book”—there are already plenty of those—but rather a comprehensive guide on how to strategically use coaching to maximize development of talent and link the impact of coaching to bottom-line results. Underhill, McAnally, and Koriath draw on their rigorous original research (through Executive Development Associates) with Fortune 1000 and Global 500 companies such as Disney, IBM, UBS, Unilever and many others, and combine that with their years of industry experience to advance the state of the art. Executive Coaching for Results includes topics such as: Integrating coaching into your organization's overall leadership development strategy Locating and screening coaches worldwide Developing an internal coaching program Deciding which coaching assessments and instruments are appropriate to your situation Measuring the impact and ROI of coaching Following up after coaching Throughout, the authors provide numerous examples from major organizations such as Dell, Johnson and Johnson, Intel, and Wal-Mart. Offering practical learning, best practices, and illuminating case studies, this is the first definitive guide to the effective use of executive coaching in the corporate environment.




Mastering the Court: A Comprehensive Guide to Basketball Coaching


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Unlock the secrets to coaching excellence with 'Mastering the Court,' a definitive guide crafted for basketball coaches at every level. From laying the foundation of teamwork and skill development to mastering game-day strategies and navigating the challenges of leadership, this comprehensive manual covers it all. Delve into the art of effective communication, player development, and building a winning program that extends far beyond the court. Whether you're a seasoned veteran or just starting your coaching journey, 'Mastering the Court' is your playbook for transforming players into champions and leaving a lasting legacy in the game of basketball.




Becoming a Coach


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Authored by masters in the field of coaching, this book is designed as a course textbook for those studying coaching in general, but with a specific reference to the updated competences introduced by the International Coaching Federation in 2020. It focuses on core coaching skills, knowledge, and developing self-awareness. This is a definitive text for coach training and go-to guide for those undertaking ICF-accredited programs throughout the world. This book helps readers equip themselves with the skills and knowledge needed to develop as a professional coach. It encourages readers to reflect on who they are, what they can do, and how they can enhance their skills. By drawing on the Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, this book ensures that a trainer's practice is well informed by evidence and is up to the highest professional standards.




The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching


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The world’s challenges are becoming more and more complex and adapting to those challenges will increasingly come from teams of people innovating together. The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching provides a dedicated and systematic guide to some of the most fundamental issues concerning the practice of team coaching. It seeks to enhance practice through illustrating and exploring an array of contextual issues and complexities entrenched in it. The aim of the volume is to provide a comprehensive overview of the field and, furthermore, to enhance the understanding and practice of team coaching. To do so, the editorial team presents, synthesizes and integrates relevant theories, research and practices that comprise and undergird team coaching. This book is, therefore, an invaluable specialist tool for team coaches of all levels; from novice to seasoned practitioners. With team coaching assuming an even more prominent place in institutional and organizational contexts nowadays, the book is bound to become an indispensable resource for any coaching training course, as well as a continuing professional development tool. This book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in coaching, in both practice and educational settings. It will be of use not only for professional coaches, but also for leaders, managers, HR professionals, learners and educators, in the business, public, independent and voluntary sectors.




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