Developing Coaching Skills: A Concise Introduction

by Dietmar Sternad (Author)

Learn how to coach effectively—and help others unlock their potential!

Do you plan to become a professional coach? Do you want to enhance your coaching skills to become a better coach or leader? Or do you just want to know more about how coaching works to help improve the lives of others?

With this concise coaching textbook, you will quickly learn the main principles and tools of executive coaching and life coaching.

Key features:

• A compact yet comprehensive overview of how coaching works
• Over 200 powerful coaching questions that you can apply right away
• Master all phases of the coaching process
• Conduct effective coaching conversations in a goal- and solution-oriented way
• Develop essential coaching skills (e.g. questioning, active listening, goal setting, giving constructive feedback, coaching for performance, dealing with emotions, and supporting behavior change)
• Tried and tested coaching tools
• Best-practice insights into how experienced coaches work
• Practical coaching exercises for developing your own coaching skills
• Free bonus learning materials on the companion website

Developing Coaching Skills is essential reading for aspiring and practicing coaches, as well as for leaders and students of coaching.

Learn what effective coaching really means, make coaching a habit, and bring out the best in other people!