Leadership Coaching: The Disciplines, Skills, and Heart of a Christian Coach
Coaching is an explosively-growing new approach to developing leaders and helping people reach their full potential. Embraced by both business and spiritual leaders worldwide for its power to transform lives, coaching is rapidly becoming one of the most important ways to build leaders. Do you want to increase your effectiveness in working with people, developing leaders, and transforming lives?Leadership Coachingcan show you how.Leadership Coachingis an essential tool for anyone who wants to learn to coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top international Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life.The book begins with in-depth look at the heart of a coach: the values and character qualities that give coaching its tremendous power. Going far beyond mere proof-texting,Leadership Coachingdemonstrates how coaching fits with the broader purposes of God in history. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, the book presents an integrated, values-based paradigm for developing leaders through coaching. 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 withLeadership Coaching.This is especially true for coaching books written from a biblical perspective."Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach toshowyou how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained and illustrated in detail. Once you’ve grasped the major concepts,Master Classsections provide a wealth of tools, models and exercises to help you apply coaching concepts to real-life situations. From extensive lists of powerful questions to 50 key coaching principles, from tips on giving healthy feedback to tools for problem-solving,Leadership Coachingdelivers the practical insights you need to coach effectively.Well written, filled with great resources and eminently practical,Leadership Coachingis a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow.