Coaching Skills - Softcover

Rogers, Jenny

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ISBN 10: 0335213308 ISBN 13: 9780335213306

Publisher: Open University Press, 2004

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"I have just read my first - and probably last - whole book on coaching. It is my last because it has done the job, giving me the most comprehensive examination of the art." David Amos, former Deputy Director of HR at the DoH, writing in the Health Service Journal.

What is coaching and how is it different from therapy or counselling?
What techniques and approaches does an effective coach use?
What distinguishes a ‘good enough’ coach from an outstanding one?

Coaching Skills helps readers to acquire the skills that are essential for becoming an outstanding coach. The book addresses key issues such as:

Creating the trust that encourages a client to learn
Keeping yourself and your own agenda out of the way without diminishing your presence
Managing your own anxiety, especially if you are inexperienced.

This practical and readable book is enlivened by many case studies to accompany the theory. Based on many years’ experience of what coaches actually struggle with in practice, it is a must for the growing band of executive and life coaches, as well as managers who want to learn how to adapt coaching as an approach to leadership.

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About the Author:

Jenny has been teaching adults throughout her career, starting with 18 year olds in a College of Further education who didnt really want to be there and branching out to adult education and over the last sixteen years, management development and training other executive coaches. She has an international reputation as a coach, consultant and writer on learning and leadership issues. She is widely experienced as a consultant in organisational development and works as executive coach to many directors and chief executives in leading public and private sector organisations. As well as her work as a college lecturer, Jenny has also worked as a freelance journalist, commissioning editor and for twelve years as a BBC television producer where one of her projects was the 'discovery' of Delia Smith. She also ran the BBCs management training department for three years in the early nineteen nineties. Jenny has a keen interest in psychological assessment and her books on the MBTI Sixteen Personality Types and Influencing Others through the Sixteen Personality Types and on the FIRO-B (co-authored with Judy Waterman) sell well on both sides of the Atlantic. She is Series Editor for the Open University Press series Coaching in Practice.

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