Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide

by Jonathan Passmore, Tracy Sinclair

Overview

This new and fully updated edition of the bestselling Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide brings this essential guide for ICF coaches up to date for 2024 and onwards. This book equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the ICF Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is well-informed by evidence and is up to the highest professional standards.

The book will also help you as you undertake any coaching training program, deepening your understanding of the core skills to be a coach and broadening your thinking as to how these can be applied with real clients in your own coaching practice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783031551505
Publisher:	Springer Nature Switzerland
Publication date:	11/02/2024
Edition description:	2nd ed. 2024
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Jonathan Passmore is an award-winning and internationally respected chartered psychologist. He has written or edited over 40 books including ‘The Coaches Handbook’ and ‘The Coaching Buyers Handbook’ and ‘Coaching Tools’, three volumes. His books have been translated into multiple languages. He has also written over 250 scientific papers and book chapters. He holds five degrees, ICF and EMCC coach credentials and is a professor at Henley Business School’s Centre for Coaching, which delivers post-graduate coach training. He is also Senior Vice President at EZRA (LHH), a global digital coaching provider. He continues to coach and provide supervision to coaches in training.

Tracy Sinclair was the 2020 Global President of the ICF and a trained coach mentor. She has practiced as a coach for 15 years and now leads a coaching, coach mentor, and coach training business helping clients and coaches in their development journeys. She has strong connections across the globe with ICF chapters and continues to speak at events across the world.

Table of Contents

Section 1.- What is coaching.- Who am I?.- Understanding clients.- Coach maturity.- Section 2: Developing core coaching competences.- Ethics & professional conduct (competency 1).- Contracting (competency 2).- Relationship (competency 3).- Presence (competency 4).- Active listening (competency 5).- Powerful questions (competency 6).- Direct communication (competency 7).- Creating awareness (competency 8).- Moving to action (competency 9, 10 & 11).- Integrating the behaviors (Summary).- Section 3: Approaches to coaching.- The Henley Eclectic Model.- Behavioural approach and the GROW model.- Humanistic approach & the Time to think model.- Cognitive behavioural approach and ABCDE model.- Systemic approach.- Gestalt approach.- Solution Focused approach.- Psychodynamic.- Neuroscience Integration.- Tools and techniques .- Coaching tools.- A series of short chapters (15-20) each describing a different tool and how the tool might be used in coaching practice.- Developing your coaching practice A series of short chapters on how to reflective practice, supervision and continuous professional development.- Contracting with clients (multi-party contracts – psychological contract, organizational coaching and individual contract).- Maintaining an ethical approach (Ethical decision making & referrals).- Continuous professional development (coach mentoring, recorded sessions and feedback, reading, journaling).- Supervision (what is supervision and how can it help your practice).- Developing your business (how to develop your coaching business).