Coaching Skills Foundation

Learn how to coach using the International Coach Federation's 11 core competencies.

The ICF Core Competencies are straightforward and doable, but they require a lifetime of focused practice to master. The Supplemental Workbook is a great tool for those of you seeking to work at a deeper level and capture your journey in writing. With its self-assessments, exercises, and growth challenges, this workbook is especially helpful for people in coach training programs. As you work through the exercises, you'll build your confidence about test taking, and you'll create a customized reference book you'll use again and again in your own coaching.

"This book provides a framework, grounded in the International Coach Federation's eight core competencies, for understanding the coaching relationship and how it benefits the client. It helps the reader to understand the wide variety of applications of personal coaching and explains the change and coaching models that have evolved over decades"--

The demand for business and personal coaching continues to grow as people discover the difference an effective coach can make in work performance and personal satisfaction. In response to the demand for coach training materials, you'll find no shortage of books and blogs on coaching models, schools, and styles. What has been hard to find-until now-is a text that focuses on the recognized basic coaching skills. Professional Coaching for Life and Work explains the nuts-and-bolts of the International Coach Federation's eleven core competencies, the essential foundation coaches need to establish strong coach-client relationships. In each chapter, certified coaches Michelle Payne and Carole Bennett discuss one ICF core competency and address the questions newcomers to coaching ask. You'll find practical examples and exercises you can use to build your skills and track your development. Each chapter also includes resources that will enhance your understanding of coaching concepts. This easy-to-read guide will help coaches on every level and from every niche-both internal and external coaches; executive, leadership, and life coaches; and teachers, trainers, and counselors who want to apply a "coach approach" to their work or personal lives.

DISCOVER THE SCIENCE BEHIND BRAIN-BASED COACHING By understanding how the brain works, coaching professionals can better tailor their language, strategies, and goals to be in alignment with an individual’s “hard-wired” way of thinking. Written by two well-known coaching professionals, David Rock and Linda Page, Coaching with the Brain in Mind presents the tools and methodologies that can be employed by novice and experienced coaches alike to create an effective—and ultimately more rewarding—relationship for both coach and client. This informative guide to the neuroscience of coaching clearly demonstrates how brain-based coaching works in practice, and how the power of the mind can be harnessed to help an individual learn and grow. Illustrated with numerous case examples and stories, this book is organized for immediate use by professionals in their client work. Coverage includes: A succinct but comprehensive overview of the major scientific and theoretical foundations for coaching and their implications for practice How the language of coaching—setting goals, making connections, becoming more aware, seeking breakthroughs, and taking action—parallels what neuroscientists tell us about how the brain operates Neuroscience as a natural platform for the ongoing development of coaching Building on the existing foundation of coaching by adding neuroscience as an evidence base for the profession, Coaching with the Brain in Mind shows that it is possible to become a better professional coach by understanding how the brain works. As well, the authors, through their research, present that an understanding of neuroscience research, however new and speculative, can help coaches and leaders fulfill their potential as change agents in the lives of others.

What if a formal mentoring program was enhanced by the introduction of professional coaching skills? Authors Kate Sharpe and Jeanie Nishimura have done precisely that. The authors' mentor-coaching model guides readers on how to build capacity in others-from examining critical elements of a mentor-coaching relationship through learning to listen to (not through), asking powerful questions, and navigating sensitive conversations. A must-read for aspiring and new mentor-coaches.

Basic Coaching Skills was written to provide both beginning and experienced coaches with a solid foundation on which to build their coaching experience. The basics of the course stresses positive leadership skills and puts an emphasis on the fun of participating in sports.

The only nonprofit orientation to coaching skills available, Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders will provide nonprofit managers with an understanding of why and how to coach, how to initiate coaching in specific situations, how to make coaching really work, and how to refine coaching for long-term success. Coaching Skills for Nonprofit Leaders offers practical steps for coaching leaders to greatness and complements the academic and theoretical work in nonprofit leadership theory. The book can be used by the coaching novice as a thorough topical overview or by those more experienced with coaching as a quick reference or refresher. Based on the Inquiry Based Coaching? approach, Coaching Skills will strengthen and expand the reader?s ability to drive organization mission, while retaining the intrinsic values of the nonprofit culture and working towards outcomes that create a culture of discipline and accountability and empower others to be even more responsible, accountable, and self-motivated. This book uses accessible language, examples, case studies, key questions, and exercises to help: Promote better relationships Know when to delegate, direct and coach. Balance directive and supportive styles of leadership for productive partnerships Overcome fears and deal head-on with difficult situations and conflict. Use coaching for performance improvement and on-the-job development. Support independent thinking and personal reflection Gain commitment and accountability from others and build teams