Download or read book Life Coaching Skills written by Richard Nelson-Jones and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `Life Coaching Skills by Dr Richard Nelson-Jones is an excellent introduction to this rapidly expanding field of work. I can thoroughly recommend this book for both experienced and neophyte coaches. Practitioners from other professions and the layperson may also find the skills useful' - Professor Stephen Palmer, Coaching Psychology Unit, City University `This book provides a wealth of information and expertise founded on tried and tested interventions and cannot fail to improve the skill level of existing coaches as well as those entering the Life Coaching arena' - Gladeana McMahon, Head of Coaching Fairplace plc, Co-Director, Centre for Coaching Life coaching is a rapidly growing area with more and more people seeking help to lead satisfying and successful lives. Life Coaching Skills provides a practical introduction to the skills needed to be an effective life coach and incorporates a wide range of practical activities for coaches to use to help their clients develop self-coaching skills. Written by leading skills expert, Richard Nelson-Jones, the book presents a four stage life coaching model based around the core concepts of relating, understanding, changing and client self-coaching. It explores the central skills of coaching used within the model including: establishing the coaching relationship; assessment and goal setting; presentation; demonstration, and consolidation. The main focus of the book is on one-to-one life coaching particularly concerning relationship, work, and health issues. The specific skills needed for working with groups are also discussed and ethical issues and dilemmas related to coaching are explored. Life Coaching Skills is ideal for anyone interested in becoming a life coach and for use in training.
Download or read book Total Life Coaching 50 Life Lessons Skills and Techniques to Enhance Your Practice and Your Life written by Lloyd J. Thomas and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Total Life Coaching by Pat and Lloyd is more than just a book. It is an interactive experience in which you will find recipes for living your life more authentically, as well as master time-honored lessons that you can bring to your coaching clients. Regardless of the personal coaching techniques or skills you may have learned, you may still not be the most effective coach you can become. This book will help you move closer to that goal. Life coaching is more than a collection of techniques and skills. It is more than something you do. Life coaching reflects who you are-it is your authentic being in action.Readers of Pat Williams's and Deborah Davis's book, Therapist as Life Coach, know Pat to be a gifted life coach and passionate teacher. Here Pat and colleague and writer, Lloyd J. Thomas, build on this earlier book and share a unique insight into the coaching process, which shows you precisely how to enhance your professional practices through practical and effective life coaching. It also empowers you to change your own lives through use of the practical information and philosophy presented here. Total Life Coaching is organized into a series of 50 life lessons, and is designed to be either read cover-to-cover or dipped into, as needed, for assistance when conducting a coaching session. Keeping life's processes on the "message and lesson" level makes living and life coaching much easier and more enjoyable. Total Life Coaching guides you step-by-step through the complex process of learning and coaching these fifty important lessons. The lessons are organized into 8 sections: Creating a Personal Identity; Coaching Spirituality and Life Purpose; Coaching Communication Skills; Living Life with Integrity; Success: Clients Achieving their Potential; Coaching Cognitive Skills; Creating High-Quality Relationships; Understanding Your Past to Create a Desired Future.Each lesson is presented as a structured recipe and includes: The life lesson The messages contained within the lesson Coaching objectives for your clients regarding the lesson What you need to know about the lesson to provide the framework for coaching it Coaching methods, exercises, questions, and language for bringing each lesson to your clients Sample coaching conversations that exemplify the coach-client dialogue for the coaching of the lesson.
Download or read book Becoming a Professional Life Coach Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training written by Diane S. Menendez and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2015-03-23 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An updated version of the best-selling therapist-to-coach transition text. With his bestselling Therapist As Life Coach, Pat Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coach, and in Becoming a Professional Life Coach he and Diane Menendez covered all the basic principles and strategies for effective coaching. Now Williams, founder of the Institute for Life Coach Training (ILCT), and Menendez, former faculty at ILCT—both master certified coaches—bring back the book that has taught thousands of coaches over the past eight years with all-new information on coaching competencies, ethics, somatic coaching, wellness coaching, and how positive psychology and neuroscience are informing the profession today. Moving seamlessly from coaching fundamentals—listening skills, effective language, session preparation—to more advanced ideas such as helping clients to identify life purpose, recognize and combat obstacles, align values and actions, maintain a positive mind-set, and live with integrity, this new edition is one-stop-shopping for beginner and advanced coaches alike. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes readers step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and techniques for being a successful life coach, including: • Listening to, versus listening for, versus listening with • Establishing a client’s focus • Giving honest feedback and observation • Formulating first coaching conversations • Asking powerful, eliciting questions • Understanding human developmental issues • Reframing a client’s perspective • Enacting change with clients • Helping clients to identify and fulfill core values, and much, much more. All the major skillsets for empowering and “stretching” clients are covered. By filling the pages with client exercises, worksheets, sample dialogues, and self-assessments, Williams and Menendez give readers a hands-on coaching manual to expertly guide their clients to purposeful, transformative lives. Today, with more and more therapists incorporating coaching into their practices, and the number of master certified coaches, many with niche expertise, growing every year, Becoming a Professional Life Coach fills a greater need than ever. By tackling the nuts and bolts of coaching, Williams and Menendez equip readers with the tools and techniques they need to make a difference in their clients’ lives.
Download or read book The Life Coaching Handbook written by Curly Martin and published by Crown House Publishing. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This complete guide to life coaching reveals what life coaching IS, how to coach yourself and others effectively and how to create and sustain a successful coaching practice. Leading you through a comprehensive programme of Advanced Life Coaching Skill The Life Coaching Handbook is the essential guide for life coaches, and a key sourcebook for NLP practitioners, human resources managers, training professionals, counsellors and the curious. Curly Martin is a professional life coach, author, trainer and internationally qualified NLP Master Practitioner. Coaching for more than twenty years, her clients include celebrities, CEOs, directors and doctors.
Download or read book Transformational Life Coaching written by Cherie Carter-Scott and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cherie Carter-Scott, Ph.D., has been seen on “Oprah,” “The Today Show,” “Regis and Kelly”, “CNN”, “The O’Reilly Factor”, “Montel,” and dozens of national shows. She is known as the “original life coach.” Now, Dr. Cherie Carter-Scott---the founder of the renowned MMS Institute share her rules for coaching to aspiring coaches around the globe. In the first book following the trail of a series of nationwide bestsellers, Dr. Carter Scott passes on the knowledge to readers and shows them how to become a brilliant coach using her time-proven strategies that include: • Marketing yourself and creating a support community • Creating a pro-client coaching environment • Being accountable and becoming “at one” with yourself before leading and teaching others • Bringing solid, positive change to your clients’ lives • Mapping an action plan to get your objectives realized • Empowering your client to face individual challenges • Assessing your preferences, talents, capabilities and formulating your goals Transformational Life Coaching is the ultimate teaching guide especially designed for those who want to make difference in the field and is filled with tangible methods and tactics for optimum achievement in coaching others.
Download or read book Life Coaching written by Dave Ellis and published by Crown House Pub Limited. This book was released on 2006 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life coaching is not therapy, but many of the qualities that therapists possess, naturally lend themselves to a life coaching approach. This is a guide to turning your natural people-helping skills into a profitable life coaching business. It appeals to therapists and counsellors used to conducting therapeutic interventions.
Download or read book More Time to Think written by Nancy Kline and published by Fisher King Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amazing book will take you into the heart of the Thinking Environment. It will touch you with stories, inspire you with results, excite you with practice. If you long for leadership you trust, meetings you love, relationships you cherish, community which works or the life you really want, More Time To Think can lead you there.
Download or read book An Introduction to Existential Coaching written by Yannick Jacob and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Introduction to Existential Coaching Yannick Jacob provides an accessible and practical overview of existential thought and its value for coaches and clients. Jacob begins with an introduction to coaching as a powerful tool for change, growth, understanding and transformation before exploring existential philosophy and how it may be integrated into coaching practice. The book goes on to examine key themes in existentialism and how they show up in the coaching space, including practical models as well as their application to organisations and leadership. Jacob concludes by evaluating ethical dimensions of working existentially and offers guidance on how to establish an existential coaching practice, including how to gain clients and build relationships with strategic partners. With reflective questions, exercises, interventions and activities throughout, An Introduction to Existential Coaching will be invaluable for anyone wanting to live and work at greater depth or to succeed as an existential coach. Accessibly written and with a wide selection of references and resources, An Introduction to Existential Coaching is a vital guide for coaches in training as well as an inspiring addition to the repertoir of experienced practitioners. It serves academics and students to understand existential philosophy and allows professionals with coaching responsibilities to access more meaningful conversations.
Download or read book Developing Coaching Skills written by Dietmar Sternad and published by Econcise Gmbh. This book was released on 2021-06-16 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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!
Download or read book Becoming a Life Coach written by David Skibbins and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than just fixing what ails them, many therapists today seek to help clients achieve personal and professional goals and navigate life changes successfully-a variety of practice called life coaching. This book offers a complete strategy professionals can use to incorporate life coaching into their practices. Becoming a Life Coach compares the role of the therapist to that of the life coach; the role of the patient to that of the client; the service of the mentally ill to that of the mentally healthy; treatment to collaboration; and finally the differences in professional standing between these two endeavors. Using real coaching exercises, the book teaches therapists everything they need to know to start and maintain a successful coaching practice. It includes information about necessary skills, tips on integrating coaching and therapy, business models, marketing advice, and more.
Download or read book Life Coaching Skills written by Richard Nelson-Jones and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life coaching is a rapidly growing area with more and more people seeking help to lead satisfying and successful lives. This volume provides a practical introduction to the skills needed to be an effective life coach and incorporates a wide range of practical activities.
Download or read book Life Coaching for Kids written by Nikki Giant and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 2014-04-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life coaching is a great way to help children and young people build self-esteem, set positive goals and deal with difficult issues such as bullying, anxiety and poor body image. This book sets out what life coaching is and how it works, what the benefits are, and how to go about coaching children and young people. Part 1 covers the background, theory and different types of coaching, and Part 2 explores the life coaching model and different techniques used, with examples of how coaching works in practice and how to build skills. The third part contains activities and photocopiable worksheets to use in practice with young people. They include general activities to develop self-esteem, set goals and build confidence, as well as activities for specific issues such as bullying, poor body image, relationships and anxiety. Suitable for use with young people aged 9-16, this practical guide is ideal for coaches, teachers, counsellors and youth workers wanting to put coaching into practice with young people, and is also suitable for parents to use at home with their child.
Download or read book Essential Life Coaching Skills written by Angela Dunbar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essential Life Coaching Skills provides a comprehensive guide to the complete range and depth of skills required to succeed as a life coach. Angela Dunbar uses theoretical background alongside practical examples to provide a clear understanding of what makes a successful life coach. This book focuses on seven essential skill sets that are necessary for effective life coaching, with each chapter giving specific examples of how these skills are used in life coaching, and how they can be developed and improved. The book also includes a comprehensive, current overview of life coaching processes, practices and issues, from both the coach and client perspectives. Essential Life Coaching Skills will be ideal reading for new and existing life coaches who wish to find ways to enhance their competence and ability. It will also be of use to therapists and counsellors looking to expand into coaching.
Download or read book An Introduction to Coaching Skills written by Christian van Nieuwerburgh and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bestselling book introduces you step-by-step to the key skills needed to become a successful coach.
Download or read book Co Active Coaching written by Henry Kimsey-House and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW 4TH EDITION now available! Refer to isbn: 9781473691124 THE BOOK THAT CHANGED THE COACHING FIELD FOREVER This current, third edition includes fresh coaching examples, the latest in coaching terminology and an expanded, web-based 'Coach's Toolkit'. Used as the definitive resource in dozens of professional development programs, Co-Active Coaching teaches the transformative communication process that allows individuals from all levels of an organization - from students to teachers, and direct reports to managers - to build strong, collaborative relationships.
Download or read book Life Coaching Guide written by Sara Stephens and published by Brbks, Limited. This book was released on 2020-05-25 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know how to make money as a life coach, in less than 30 days? Inside this life coaching guide you'll learn: How to get paid as a life coach The most profitable ways to market your coaching services to the public Over 30 examples of powerful coaching questions you can ask your clients How to become a professional life coach How to choose the niche that is best for you How much you should charge as a life coach The coaching style you should use with your clients And much, much more! If you're ready to start getting paid for your coaching skills, then this guide is for you. The author, Sara Stephens has been a professional life coach for 12 years. She trained at the Coaches Training Institute in San Rafael, California. She is passionate about transforming lives, and teaching more people how to transform their passion for coaching into a new career. What Readers are Saying: "I have always been interested in life coaching but I never knew where to start. This book has taught me everything I needed to know on how to be a great life coach. Even if you don't want to be a life coach there is still a lot of valuable information in this great book!"
Download or read book Life Coaching For Dummies written by Jeni Purdie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Become a life coach-for yourself and others-with this practical, informative guide If you're interested in doing away with negative beliefs, making a significant change in your life, and, finally, create-and live-the life you want, life coaching is the key. In this practical introduction, you will learn the empowering techniques essential to life coaching-including putting together an action plan, getting your priorities straight, staying focused, defining true success, overcoming common obstacles, and coaching yourself to happiness. With more information than ever before, this new updated edition includes material on emotional intelligence and active listening With insights on what to expect from life coaching and how to develop your own life coaching techniques, the book offers sound advice on what it takes to become a professional life coach. If you simply want to create more balance in your life, become more productive, and enjoy a more fulfilling existence, Life Coaching For Dummies holds the answer.
