Coaching Skills
The Handbook of Coaching: A Comprehensive Resource Guide for Managers, Executives, Consultants, and HR
By Frederic M. Hudson
An indispensable workbook for coaches, aspiring coaches, human resource managers, and visionary executives, this timely book offers a complete overview of the fast-growing field that transforms organizations and empowers new leaders. It presents an essential compendium of the basic information, concisely describing the major theories, skills, and techniques of coaching.
Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart : A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges
By Mary Beth O'Neill
This book delves deeply into what is required of the coach to effectively work with executives and manage the coaching relationship.
The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Culture
By Thomas G. Crane
A brilliantly practical and long overdue 3/4 road map for developing executives and managers into emotionally intelligent coaches.
Action Coaching: How to Leverage Individual Performance for Company Success
By David L. Dotlich and Peter C. Cairo
A proven coaching plan for companies and their executives to lead effectively in today's changing business environment. Action Coaching emphasizes coaching as an organizational intervention, inserting new behaviors at the moment of turmoil, when organizations need them most.
Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others
By James Flaherty
A must-read for any coaching practitioner or anyone who wants a deeper understanding of how to make changes in his/her own life or the lives of others.
Masterful Coaching
By Robert Hargrove
Emphasizes core coaching skills--sponsoring, counseling, acknowledging, teaching and confronting. Provides examples of coaching for breakthrough results from leading companies.
Co-Active Coaching
By Laura Whitworth, Henry House, Phil Sandahl, and Henry Kimsey-House
The SPIRIT of coaching. I can't say enough about this HIGHLY recommended book. Every time I pick it up I find something of value. If you want to coach, this is the way to catch the coaching spirit. Highest recommendation.
The Portable Coach
By Thomas J. Leonard
Brilliant book by the founder of Coach U includes the 28 Attraction Principles for business and personal success.
Coaching for Performance
By John Whitmore
Management oriented book for using coaching skills in the corporate world. Clear, concise, hands-on, and reader friendly, this is a coaching guide written in a coaching style.
The Inner Game of Golf, Tennis, Skiing
By T. Gallwey
A revolutionary program for overcoming the self-doubt, nervousness, and lapses of concentration that can keep a player from winning (in athletics or life).
More Coaching Books
- Coach Yourself to Success: 101 Tips for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life By Talane Miedaner and Sandy Vilas
- Becoming A Coach: The Coach U Approach By Thomas J. Leonard
- The Inner Game of Work By W. Timothy Gallwey
- Take Time for Your Life : A Personal Coach's Seven-Step Program for Creating the Life You Want By Cheryl Richardson
- Working Wisdom : Top 10 Lists for Improving Your Business By Thomas J. Leonard
- Work Less, Make More : Stop Working So Hard and Create the Life You Really Want! By Jennifer White
