Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #7884 in Books
• Published on: 2006-08-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 195 pages

Synopsis
The Coaching Bible is a practical and inspiring new book from the UK's top coaches Ian Mc Dermott and Wendy Jago, authors of The NLP Coach and Your Inner Coach. Coaching has become an integral part of our lives, but people still need to know how to make the most of what coaching can offer. The Coaching Bible is the only book on coaching that you need. It offers unique, valuable and expert advice to help you if: You are thinking about getting a coach to help you become more effective; You commission coaching to develop other people; You are considering becoming a coach yourself; You are already a coach and want to extend your knowledge and your skills; You want to learn how to adopt a coaching approach to your own life. This is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the key principles and techniques that make coaching one of the most powerful and exciting tools for furthering personal and professional effectiveness. It explains what works and why and includes a new coaching model to benefit everyone.

Customer Reviews

Advice of biblical proportions!
The last time I entered the term coaching into the Amazon UK search facility it returned 3495 hits. Coaching literature is springing up quite literally like wildfire and so to produce a coaching `bible' at this time is a bold move indeed. Whilst the authors take care to point out that by bible they mean a handbook and practical guide rather than a definitive account, I wonder if some readers may buy the book expecting the latter.

The book is divided into 4 sections. In section 1, The Heart and Soul of Coaching the authors describe an overall approach to coaching based on a framework called multimodal coaching. Section 2, the nuts and bolts of coaching gives detail around using the model in all parts of a coaching intervention and these ideas are further developed in section 3, Coaching - the larger issues. Section 4, Coaching and Beyond considers coaching form a more philosophical standpoint and suggests - rightly, in my view - that it is an essential way of interacting with each other is these turbulent times.

The book is written in an upbeat, accessible style with which readers of their previous works will be familiar. This makes it an easy read with ideas that are simply conveyed and therefore easily actioned. This is an absolute necessity in any coaching book and is a particular strength here.

In terms of target readership I would suggest it would be most useful to the established practitioner who is looking for some fresh insights and perspectives. I think Life and Executive coaches would find the book invaluable but a manager coaching in an organisation may prefer something more practical.

At last - acknowledgement that excellent coaching involves many parties
I like this book. It is one of the few works to really appreciate the coach cannot do it all, in spite of how the ego's of some coaches may react. Skilfully they explain how the coach, those who commission the assignment, and the client (coachee) all have key roles and responsibilities. In addition the section on powerful questions, life issues - including purpose, and dealing with interference are all well presented and easy to understand. I applaud this pair, with my dual hats on as Executive Coach and author The Coaching Parent.

David Miskimin
The Directors Coach