Product Description

Recent studies show that life skills coaching, executive coaching and business coaching are all effective ways of achieving sustainable growth, change and development in an individual, group or organisation.

The Coaching at Work Toolkit is the first comprehensive, practical resource for coaches in the use of the theories, tools, techniques and practices that affect learning and change. This book offers coaching tools and psychology-based techniques and is a much-needed guide to understanding the practice of coaching and applying the theories and language associated with it.

The employment of life skills coaching, executive coaching and business coaching is being heralded as the way to create organisations of the future. Anyone interested in achieving their best and staying ahead of the competition should read this book. Through the use of case studies, practical instructions and application guidelines, the authors have provided models, principles and techniques that enable professional coaches to achieve breakthrough results.

For the past ten years the authors, first as practitioners and then as educators, have worked closely with colleagues across the globe to develop coaching techniques that produce positive, measurable, lasting change.

This book builds upon the success of the authors' first general coaching reference The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work. This title focused on the nature of coaching, coaching models and frameworks, and the competencies for successful coaches.

Suzanne Skiffington and Perry Zeus have trained hundreds of coaches around the world. Through their internationally renowned coach training school, 1 to 1 Coaching School they have worked with established and new coaches, professionals and managers/leaders of organisations, consultants, groups and the academic community.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120848 in Books
• Published on: 2002-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

About the Author
Perry Zeus is an executive corporate coach, management consultant, management trainer and mentor. Suzanne Skiffington is a departmental clinical psychologist at the University of Q.L.D. She holds various tutoring and lecturing positions including guest lecturer at Sydney University on executive coaching. Both authors conduct Master Coach workshops in Australia, the US, Asia, New Zealand and the UK. They are both co-principals of the Coaching Resource Centre Hometown: Perry Zeus - Southport, Queensland Australia Suzanne Skiffington - Sydney, New South Wales Australia

Customer Reviews

A fantastic resource for coaches
This book is a remarkably comprehensive resource for coaches. It examines the nature of change as well as the role of the coach as a change agent. It clearly articulates the stages of the coaching process. There is a wealth of assessments and profiles, numerous practical coaching techniques and importantly, the authors discuss the role of the coach's personality. Techniques and how to use them range from self-awareness exercises, problem-solving techniques and journalling.It is research-based,thorough and very readable. Highly recommended!.

Extremely resourceful, very accessible and practical book
Many coaching books tell us what we should be doing but not many supply us with valid methodologies and techniques to use. This book is brimming with models, techniques, assessments and procedures to conduct coaching sessions.The information is well researched and practical and the book is extremely well-written. It is a 'must' for practising coaches, regardless of their coaching specialty or whether they are working within an organization or have their own coaching practice.

Groundbreaking Reference Text
The 'Toolkit' is a highly professional, yet easy-to-understand reference book and includes a complete and very helpful glossary. The authors are the most respected coaching educators in the business world today. The professional coaching industry has evolved dramatically over the last two years and bears little resemblance to its fuzzy predecessor of the nineties. A lot of serious research and work has gone into this groundbreaking text book, and serious personal and organizational change can come from the use of the book.

The book brings together a complete listing of the major skills and techniques for organizational and personal coaches, and offers guidelines and instructions on how to employ them. The Toolkit provides processes, protocols, assessment instruments, forms, charts and checklists and examines the management practices of coaching. The text also details the changing nature and evolution of coaching, such as the increasing importance of specialization. To date, most available coaching books detail the standard practices of goal setting, action planning and some coaching interventions but they do not offer too many actual techniques that facilitate the desired change. Achieving measurable, sustainable outcomes isn't a matter of simplistic goal setting, personality profiling and cheerleading but requires the skilful use of validated, proven behavioral change methods and learning tools grounded in the behavioral sciences. In this book, these invaluable techniques are blue-printed and discussed, and then presented alongside case studies and exercises.

The success of any coaching program is dictated by the program's resources depth, scientific validity and measurability. This invaluable, well written and very accessible reference provides exact processes and details for achieving successful coaching outcomes and will find a place on the bookshelves of many coaches, consultants, trainers, HR professionals, learning institutions and corporations.