Facilitative Coaching: A Toolkit for Expanding Your Repertoire and Achieving Lasting Results (Essential Tools Resource) - Softcover

Schwarz

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470192437 ISBN 13: 9780470192436

Publisher: Pfeiffer, 2008

Synopsis

Many facilitators realize that the basic methodologies they use often fail to take their clients to a place of deeper learning and growth required when addressing complex issues. This book offers over seventy exercises, along with tips and tools for expanding the professional coach's repertoire and includes a full range of interventions. The book also includes step-by-step guidance on how to use these innovative methods with clients. Based on the Skilled Facilitator model developed by best-selling author Roger Schwarz in his landmark book, The Facilitative Coaching Toolkit is ideal for coaches who are looking for advanced alternative approaches to helping their clients get "unstuck" when dealing with obstacles.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

A Different Kind of Coaching Book

Facilitative Coaching is a dynamic resource that offers coaches, leaders, facilitators, consultants, and therapists a guide for expanding their repertoire and helping their clients achieve lasting results. It challenges coaches to employ a full range of creative methods for working with the whole brain and helping themselves and their clients get unstuck when facing obstacles.

Facilitative Coaching and the companion CD include more than seventy exercises, along with guidelines, tips, and tools for putting them into action. All the exercises can be adapted to a variety of situations and are designed for both the professional development of coaches and use with clients. In addition to myriad hands-on tools, the book and CD include illustrative client stories, creations, and examples of results that are sure to spark creativity.

All the Facilitative Coaching methods have been tested by the authors during their more than fifty years of combined coaching, consulting, training, and facilitation experience. Their work is grounded in an in-depth coaching model that they developed and teach in their Facilitative Coach workshops. It is based on the highly successful Skilled Facilitator approach developed by best-selling author Roger Schwarz. This comprehensive resource includes the information and tools needed to become a collaborative coach who fully engages clients in achieving creative, purposeful action toward their deepest dreams and desires.

For more information about The Facilitative Coach and related workshops, visit www.schwarzassociates.com

About the Author:

Dale Schwarz is a personal and professional coach, art therapist, and workshop leader. 'For over thirty years, she has guided individuals to fully use their gifts and talents to transform their lives. In addition, she helps coaches expand their repertoire and skills and provides organization development consulting to both public and private sector clients. Dale is the co-founding director of the Center for Creative Consciousness and an associate with Roger Schwarz & Associates.Anne Davidson specializes in leadership development, facilitator training, and long-term organizational and community change projects. Anne brings twenty-five years of experience to her international work with executives, management groups, work teams, and nonprofit and local government boards. She coaches individuals in creative development and in applying The Facilitative Leader approach. Anne is a consultant with Roger Schwarz & Associates and co-author of The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pfeiffer
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470192437
• ISBN 13: 9780470192436
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 460