Coaching Publications

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but few have made me want to do something

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PERSONAL COACHING

Coach Yourself
by Anthony M Grant & Jane Greene
Published by Pearson Education Ltd 2001 ISBN 1843 040131
The purpose of the book is to provide a self-help course in coaching. There is a wealth of supporting information, by way of summaries of relevant research, mini case studies and stimulating quotes from world leaders and thinkers.

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The NLP Coach
by Ian McDermott & Wendy Jago
Published by Piatkus 2001 ISBN 0-7499-2277-X
This is a comprehensive, practical and user-friendly guide to self-coaching using NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) techniques. It contains tools to help you boost your self-esteem and create good relationships for a successful career and good health. It looks at how you can improve your potential, personal style and balance, your worlds and yourself. There is a good sections on maximising your brain power and becoming spiritually alive.

The Coaching Manual
by Julie Starr.
Published by Prentice Hall 2003 ISBN 0-273-66193-0
This is a definitive guide to the process, principles and skills of personal coaching. It contains a wealth of practical tools to ensure that the coach keeps the responsibility on the coachee. It champions a less directive style within a clear structural framework. You will find lots of step-by-step exercises and examples of potential coaching situations, as well as sample dialogue to help you get a clear picture of sounds right.

Coaching for Performance
by John Whitmore
Published by Nicholas Brealey 2002 ISBN 1-85788-303-9
This book offers a more advanced work for coaches wishing to do performance improvement work with their clients. It's a classic work. It is clear, concise and user-friendly. In John's own words, "Coaching is not merely a technique to be wheeled out and rigidly applied in certain prescribed situations. It is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being." His approach follows the GROW sequence - Grow - Reality - Options - Will

Life Strategies
by Phil McGraw
Published by Vermilion 1999 ISBN 009-181-999-7
This book offers you powerful and straightforward advice that can help you understand your role during a time of rapid change. He shows you how to shake off the victim role and take charge of your attitudes and behaviour.

Life Coaching
by Eileen Mulligan
Published by Piatkus 1999 ISBN 0-7499-1937-X
This book contains a range of personal coaching techniques which will help you reassess your life, redefine success and set new goals. Eileen shows you how to be your own coach change your life in seven simple steps that cover your personal fitness, spiritual life, work, finances, relationships, family and your social life.

Life Strategies Workbook
by Phil McGraw.
Published by Vermilion 2000 ISBN 0-09-188240-0
This book contains a step by step guide to the issues that need to be addressed if you want to succeed on a journey of major personal change. It takes you through a series of self-tests that you can use yourself, or to help others confront their change problems.

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SELF-COACHING

Coaching Successfully
by John Eaton & Roy Johnson
Published by Dorling Kindersley 2001 ISBN 0-7513-12142
With only 70 short pages this book is an excellent introduction to understanding what coaching is in all its forms. It shows you how to initiate coaching conversations and how to make it work in a variety of contexts. It even has a tool for assessing your coaching skills.

Inner Leadership
by Simon Smith
Published by Nicholas Brealey 2000 ISBN 1-85788-271-7
This book takes a different approach to self-coaching. It promotes a journey of self-discovery, helping you realise your self-leading potential. It's insights and exercises help you become a more aware, energetic, sensitive and confident person. Find out more at: http://www.inner-leadership.com

The Inner Game of Work
by Timothy Gallwey
Published by Texere 2002 ISBN 1-58799-047-4
Tim is a prolific writer on sports coaching, famous for his Self One/Self Two analysis. This book applies his approach to coaching in the workplace with great effect. He shows you how to overcome those inner obstacles to performance such as the fear of failure, anxiety and self-doubt. It will change your complete outlook on work, transforming it into a new and intensely positive experience.

The 10 minute Life Coach
by Fiona Harrold
Published by Hodder & Stoughton 2002 ISBN 0-340-82201-5
This book is by the author of 'Be Your Own Life Coach'. It contains simple, fast-working strategies to accelerate you towards your goals in just 10 minutes a day. You are shown how to believe in yourself, propel yourself into taking action, seeing yourself as successful, become a natural optimist and how to live a bigger and more interesting life.

High Energy Habits
by Bill Ford
Published by Pocket Books 2002 ISBN 0-7434-2894-3
This is a cracking little book on how to get more energy into your life. It offers practical advice on how to make your life easier, fuller and more enjoyable. Start by doing less of what drains your energy and do more of what makes your heart sing. It's full of really useful tips, over 101 ways to feed your soul.

The Coaching Revolution
by David Logan & John King
Published by Adams Media 2001 ISBN 1-58062-485-5
This book explores how visionary managers are using coaching to empower people and unlock their full potential. He says "A real change leader is a coach." You will find practical advice on how coachng can help create a collaborative culture in months - not years. It agues the case for coaching over training as an aid to transformational change.

Super Brain Power
by Jean Marie Stine
Published by Piatkus 2001 ISBN 0-7499-2225-7
You will find 21 simple and enjoyable exercises which can improve your memory, increase your concentration, enhance your creativity and boost your learning potential.

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TEAM COACHING

The Tao of Coaching
by Max Landsberg
Published by Harper Collins 1997
This short and insightful book on team coaching will help you boost your effectiveness at work by inspiring and developing those around you. It focuses on nurturing an environment where coaching can flourish so you can develop a team of people who relish their work.

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CORPORATE COACHING

Coaching and Mentoring
by Eric Parsloe & Monika Wray
Published by Kogan Page 2001 ISBN 0-7494-3118-0
This book offers a range of methods to improve learning through coaching and mentoring. The tools are designed to help you learn how to do new things in new ways. It covers both the theory and practice of coaching, changing from the world of work to community action. It contains the seven golden rules of simplicity.

Coaching for the Future
by Janice Caplan
Published by CIPD (Tel: 08708003366) 2003 ISBN 0-85292-958-7
This book covers the basiscs of coaching in an organisation very well - explaining its function, uses, benefits and the many guises it takes. The section on chnaging culture is well done, drawing on the work of Edgar Schein. It explains how learning is critical, leaders mus be non-directive and and people are empowered to make decisions.