FT Guide to Business Coaching (The FT Guides) - Softcover

Scoular, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 027373444X ISBN 13: 9780273734444

Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall, 2011

Synopsis

The FT Guide to Business Coaching shows you everything you need to know about becoming a business coach, from how to find out if you’ve got what it takes, through the basic tools and models that really work.

This book gives you a step-by-step guide to the tools, the market knowledge and the crucial new techniques from psychology you need to become an exceptional business coach. Clear, compelling and comprehensive, covering classic and fresh material from both business and psychology, this is the first book to cover both the critical elements of world-class business coaching.

This book takes you through a tried and trusted process developed specifically for senior business leaders. It will help you:

• Know when to coach and when to lead.
• Build powerful listening skills.
• Get to grips with the most useful and up-to-the minute coaching tools and psychological techniques.
• Calculate if – and crucially, how - you can make a living as a business coach.
• Decide if, how and when to go for accreditation as a coach.

About this title

Product Description:

FT Guide to Business Coaching

From the Back Cover:

'A simply brilliant guide for anyone who wants to know how to do great business coaching.'

Professor Carol Kauffman, Director of the Institute of Coaching, Harvard University 

'A comprehensive and commercial guide ... A must-have reference for any business coach.'

Alastair Mitchell, COO (UK) Linklaters LLP 

'Read this book! It will grab you, and delight you, and enlighten you, and inspire you, and, yes, guide you wisely and well.'

Nancy Kline, Time to Think

The Financial Times Guide to Business Coaching is the definitive introduction to the art and craft of successful business coaching. At its best, business coaching delivers a product that works and is addictively powerful. So what do you need to do to be a world-class business coach? Anne Scoular guides you through everything you need to know, from finding out if you’ve got what it takes, through the basic tools and models that really work, to the more advanced techniques that will help you get to the top of the coaching world.

 

Based on a tried and trusted process developed specifically for senior business leaders, and used by many of Europe’s leading business coaches, CEOs, executive and consultants, this book will help you:

 

• Work out if you’ve got what it takes to be an effective business coach
• Develop a deeper understanding of what coaching is and what it does
• Build powerful listening skills
• Get to grips with the most useful and up-to-the minute coaching tools and techniques
• Decide where your personal boundaries lie
• Assess the most appropriate questions to use with each individual client
• Calculate if – and crucially, how – you can make a living as a business coach
• Decide if, how and when to apply for accreditation as a coach

About this edition

• Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 027373444X
• ISBN 13: 9780273734444
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248