Coaching Book Review

Coaching – General Topics

· Goldsmith, Marshall. What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, 2008.

· Goldsmith, Marshall and Lyons, Laurence. Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches 2nd Edition

The collective thinking of what some consider the best thought leaders in executive coaching, this books’ 26 articles present the work of numerous academic practitioners who have distilled the principles of executive coaching best practices as well as explored where and how to apply them. Part One, Foundations of Coaching, lays the groundwork. Part Two, Building Blocks, discusses the essential components of the coaching process. Part Three, Leading Change, explores the use of executive coaching as a change activity. The final section of the book, Part Four, looks at core applications and various case studies.

· Goldsmith, Marshall. Triggers.

· Matthew, David. Professional Coaching Language for Greater Public Understanding

· Zander, B. and Zander, R. S. The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and

Personal Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 2000.

· Belf, Teri-E. Coaching with Spirit: Allowing Success to Emerge. San Francisco: Jossey-

Bass, 2002.

· Anderson, Dianna. Coaching that Counts: Harnessing the Power of Leadership

Coaching to Deliver Strategic Value. Oxford: Elsevier-Butterworth, 2005.

· Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others [eBook] by James Flaherty

Focuses on how coaches can help those they coach to develop new language, new frames and new practices. Many solid principles, and coaching fundamentals tied to theory in a highly readable book. Explores the fundamental question: "How can I contribute to someone's competence in a respectful, dignified and effective way?"

· Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change by Sara Orem

Describes an approach to coaching that is rooted in Appreciative Inquiry. At its core the Appreciative Coaching method shows individuals how to tap into their own sense of wonder and excitement about their present life and future possibilities.

· Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills, by Tony Stoltzfus, 2008

The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this book, practitioner Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of question asking tools, models and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with over 1,000 examples of penetrating questions. The book covers the gamut from basic techniques like basic open-ended questions and options or actions to advanced concepts such as challenging questions and reframing techniques.

· Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS, by John Blakey and Ian Day, 2012

Challenging Coaching is a provocative book which encourages coaches to move beyond the limitations of traditional coaching. The authors detail their unique FACTS coaching model, which provides a practical and pragmatic approach focusing on Feedback, Accountability, Courageous goals, Tension, and Systems thinking. Using this model enables the reader to enter the zone of uncomfortable debate that sustainably transforms individual and bottom-line performance. The authors explore FACTS coaching in theory and in practice using case studies, example dialogues, and practical exercises so that the reader will be able to successfully challenge others using respectful yet direct techniques.

· Facilitating Reflective Learning through Coaching and Mentoring by Anne Brockbank, Ian McGill

Provides clarity by offering a theoretical framework presenting coaching and mentoring models together with examples of how they can be applied in practice.

· Workplace, Executive and Life Coaching: An Annotated Bibliography from the Behavioral Science and Business Literature, Anthony M Grant

Scholarly Coaching Publications from 1937 to January 1, 2011

· Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose – The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership, 4th Edition, by Sir John Whitmore, 2009

John Whitmore suggests that good coaching is a skill that requires a depth of understanding and plenty of practice if it is to deliver its potential. This book explains the principles of coaching and illustrates them with examples of high performance from business and sport. It continues to follow the GROW sequence (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) and clarifies the process and practice of coaching by describing what coaching really is, what it can be used for, when and how much it can be used, and who can use it well.

· Developing High Performance People: The Art of Coaching by Oscar G. Mink

· For those who want to learn how to build trust and involvement with employees and how to effectively evaluate employee performance.

· Evidence Based Coaching Handbook by Dianne R. Stober, Anthony M. Grant

· Drawn from the realms of psychology, business, and other disciplines, this highly practical book enables students and practitioners of coaching to understand and apply established and proven behavioral theories. It gives readers knowledge of both why and how coaching works instead of the how-to material generally available.

· Helping: How to Offer, Give, and Receive Help by Edgar H. Schein

· Identifies three roles a helper can play, explaining which one is nearly always the best starting point if we are to provide truly effective help. So that readers can determine exactly what kind of help is needed, he describes an inquiry process that puts the helper and the recipient on an equal footing.

· Masterful Coaching by Robert Hargrove

· Written for coaches who want to tools and methods to bring about profound changes in thinking and behavior with individuals, groups and entire organizations. To that end this is a book that positions itself as being about transformational coaching—while using a very pragmatic and results –oriented approach.

· Mastering Mentoring and Coaching with Emotional Intelligence by Patrick E. Merlevede; Denis Bridoux

· A practical, how-to guide on how to transfer specialized knowledge, develop critical skills and translate knowledge into action and explores how the best mentoring relationships arise from the emotional intelligence of self-awareness, self-management and a caring ability and willingness to invest oneself in others. Replete with tools and skill-building suggestions.

· Mindset: the new psychology of success by Carol S. Dweck

· Reveals how established attitudes affect all aspects of one's life, explains the differences between fixed and growth mindsets, and stresses the need to be open to change in order to achieve fulfillment and success.

· The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Coaching Culture by Thomas Crane, Lerissa Patrick, and Troy Parker

· More and more leaders and their organizations are becoming convinced in the business case for creating a "coaching culture". This book provides the tools for leaders and teams to develop a common language and shared protocol and a learning and development orientation towards people.

· The Completely Revised Handbook of Coaching (eBook) by Pamela McLean; Frederic M. Hudson

· Describes the essential underpinnings of successful coaching and includes a comprehensive, annotated list of books, articles, and other resources.

Coaching Teams

· Lencioni, Patrick. The Five Dysfunctions of Team, 2002.

· The Five Dysfunctions of a Team outlines the root causes of politics and dysfunction on the teams where you work, and the keys to overcoming them. Counter to conventional wisdom, the causes of dysfunction are both identifiable and curable. However, they don't die easily. Making a team functional and cohesive requires levels of courage and discipline that many groups cannot seem to muster.

· Yamashita, Keith and Spataro, Sandra Spataro. Unstuck: A Tool for Yourself, Your Team, and Your World. 2004

· Wright, Alan. Spiritual Dimensions of Team. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2010.

· Is the primary tool that will help churches become effective team-based organizations. Teams as dynamic units are important to organizations, and this book offers a new and unique approach to creating effective teams. By using parables and giving ways to put the insights to work, Wright gives you a toolbox of information that can change your team. This book brings together in one message a behavioral understanding of team effectiveness, specific biblical principles combined with those practices, and powerful learning exercises which will move teams from theory to life practice.

· Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership, by Peter Hawkins 2011

· Organizations are most effective when the teams accountable for the organization’s success are performing to the best of their abilities. Leadership Team Coaching is aimed at managers whose role it is to encourage and develop a team. Author Peter Hawkins provides the practical tools and techniques to facilitate effective team performance. He also includes guidance on all the key areas of team coaching, including coaching the board and supervising team coaching and how a team as a whole can engage effectively with key stake holders.