Leadership Coaching is an essential tool for anyone who wants to learn to coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life.
Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, this book goes beyond proof-texting to present an integrated, values-based paradigm for leadership coaching. Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life. Leadership coaching is a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow. As one coach trainer says:
"Without a doubt, it's the best I've read in the coaching genre. Tony has raised the bar for books on coaching with Leadership Coaching. This is especially true for coaching books written from a biblical perspective."
From the Author: How This Fits with My Other Coaching Books
Leadership Coaching is the book to start with to learn how to coach. It covers the basic coaching values and mindset, how to carry on a coaching conversation and basic concepts like goals and actions.
The Christian Life Coaching Handbook builds on this foundation, providing a set of coaching tools specific to life purpose discovery and showing you how to use them. A Leader's Life Purpose Workbook is a shorter version of this Handbook. Designed for the coaching client, it includes all 60 discovery exercises from the Handbook, so your clients can use them as destiny discovery action steps. The third book in this series, The Calling Journey, shows how calling develops over a lifetime. The average time from making Jesus lord to entering the fullness of your destiny is 31 years! The Calling Journey unveils what God does in between to prepare you for your destiny.
Coaching Questions is my most popular book. It's a reference guide to a plethora of coaching techniques (for experienced coaches), and a great aid to questions for those who are just learning. With over 1400 example questions arranged around the coaching tools they are used with, this book can help you coach like a pro from the start. If you get one other book with Leadership Coaching, get this one.
I also have a variety of coaching audio CDs and training products at my bookstore, Coach22.com. Coaching is an art, and one of the best ways to learn is to listen to an experienced coach at work. If you want to grow as a coach, listen in on a set like Coaching Transitions to catch the flow of a real coaching conversation.
