Coaching

Stop Managing and Start Coaching

Jerry W. Gilley and Nathaniel Boughton

Coaching on a management level is best done by people within the organization. Coaching to higher levels (Executives) is best done through outside resources. This book deals with how managers can begin the process of learning how to coach others. The rule of thumb: Manage the environment or context of the relationships, but coach and mentor people. Today this is very important to the success of a manager.

Masterful Coaching Field Book

Robert Hargrove

This is a book to help guide your process of coaching. Simple and easy steps to start a coaching process.

Mentoring

Chungliang Al Huang and Jerry Lynch

A book based on Eastern thought, but wrapped together into an application to the Western World. Mentoring is learning the art of giving and receiving wisdom. To be a mentor means to learn how to value the other so they become receptive to your wisdom.

Co-Active Coaching

Laura Whitworth

The heart of coaching is the client’s agenda, therefore the relationship is co-active; both parties participate in the process and in the success of the relationship. The book provides very good models, charts and graphs to help monitor the coaching event.

The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching

edited by Howard Morgan

This book explores the different types of coaching available to give as well as practice. The giants in each area write about their experiences and their special skill set. Examples of the different types of coaching include; behavioral or leadership coaching; career/life coaching; coaching for leadership development; coaching for organizational change; coaching for strategy. Interesting to view all the types of coaching available or needed in the lives of people/leaders.

Depth Coaching

Patricia R. Adson

This is a very serious and in-depth look at the coaching process. If you’re looking at going to the next stages of your development in your coaching with another person, this will be the book you’ll want to read. Focus of the book is on the archetypes of human develop- ment.

This book can be read alongside the Inner Work by Robert Anderson

Coaching (Evoking Excellence in Others)

James Flaherty

An important read to understand the basics of coaching. If you are at all interested in coaching, this book should be your first read! Chapters:

1. The Foundation for Coaching
2. Basic Principles for Coaching
3. The Flow of Coaching
4. The Coaching Relationship