50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People - Softcover

Jones, Gillian; Gorell, Ro

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1398624802 ISBN 13: 9781398624801

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2026

Synopsis

Equip leaders and coaches to drive high performance, resilience and inclusive growth in every environment.

50 Top Tools for Coaching is a practical guide for senior executives, HR leader and coaches who need proven, adaptable tools to strengthen leadership capability and accelerate performance. Written by coaching experts Gillian Jones and Ro Gorell, this fully updated sixth edition provides comprehensive exercises, models, checklists and templates that help leaders coach with confidence, clarity and measurable impact.

Covering the full coaching lifecycle, this book shows how to diagnose client needs, select the right intervention for each scenario and deliver coaching that improves decision making, builds capability and supports transformation. It also includes new tools for hybrid work, inclusive leadership and neurodiverse teams, enabling leaders to coach effectively across complex, distributed and fast-changing environments.

You'll learn how to:
-Apply evidence-based tools to strengthen performance, confidence and accountability
- Coach hybrid and neurodiverse teams with inclusive, flexible approaches
- Address conflict, navigate change and support leaders through uncertainty
- Use coaching techniques and AI-enabled tools to elevate leadership effectiveness

With online resources, interactive templates and practical demonstrations, 50 Top Tools for Coaching gives senior leaders and coaches the frameworks they need to build high-performing cultures, develop talent at scale and lead with greater empathy, agility and impact.

Themes include: executive coaching, leadership development, hybrid work, inclusive leadership, neurodiversity, organizational change, coaching tools

About this title

About the Authors

Gillian Jones is Managing Director of Emerge, an international development consultancy that specializes in leadership, organizational development and executive coaching. She is a motivational speaker, a Master Executive Coach and a champion for women's development, delivering RISE, the popular empowering women's programme, both in Europe and the Middle East. She is the co-author of 50 Top Tools for Coaching and How to Create a Coaching Culture both published by Kogan Page.

Ro Gorell is Director at Change Optimised, supporting leaders to navigate organization-wide transformation through coaching, mentoring and change management solutions. She has extensive experience in both group and individual coaching. An accredited trainer with IC Agile she is an active member of both the Agile and Change Management global communities. Based in Australia, she is the author of Group Coaching and with Gillian Jones the co-author of How to Create a Coaching Culture and 50 Top Tools for Coaching, published by Kogan Page. Her latest area of research is coaching self-organizing teams.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1398624802
• ISBN 13: 9781398624801
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 344