Listly by Sarah Santacroce
This is a growing list of the best coaching & mentoring books. Please add your favorites ! Credit to Dr. Jon Warner who compiled a previous list with 20 of the books below.
Challenging Coaching: Going Beyond Traditional Coaching to Face the FACTS [John Blakey, Ian Day] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Foreword by Sir John Whitmore PhD, author of Coaching for Performance This books breaks the mould of traditional coaching approaches to challenge coaches and their clients to achieve courageous goals that sustainably transform bottom line performance. Challenging Coaching is a real-world
Transformational Executive Coaching [Ted M. Middelberg] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. In Transformational Executive Coaching, Dr. Ted Middelberg outlines a comprehensive, innovative approach to coaching leaders at the executive level. His unique system is built on a structured and goal-focused process that gives coaches the ability to eff ect and sustain the dramatic change that leaders want from a coaching engagement. Based on building relationships and using high-quality colleague feedback
The Heart of Coaching: Using Transformational Coaching to Create a High-Performance Coaching Culture [Thomas G. Crane, Lerissa Nancy Patrick] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. This 4th edition makes the coaching process between colleagues even more powerful. The elements of the Roadmap are enhanced to ensure they are easier to grasp and apply. More and more leaders and their organizations are becoming convinced in the business case for creating a "coaching culture". This book provides the tools for leaders and teams to develop a common language and shared protocol and a learning and development orientation towards people. These critical dynamics support the entire culture becoming a "feedback-rich
The Mentor's Guide: Facilitating Effective Learning Relationships [Lois J. Zachary] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Thoughtful and rich with advice, The Mentor's Guide explores the critical process of mentoring and presents practical tools for facilitating the experience from beginning to end. Now managers
Becoming an Exceptional Executive Coach: Use Your Knowledge, Experience, and Intuition to Help Leaders Excel [Michael H. Frisch, Robert J. Lee, Karen L. Metzger, Judy Rosemarin, Jeremy Robinson] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Coaching is more than simply learning a process and set of skills. Exceptional coaches draw on their professional experience
Practicing Positive Psychology Coaching: Assessment, Activities and Strategies for Success [Robert Biswas-Diener] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Discover proven strategies for applying positive psychology within your coaching practice Written by Robert Biswas-Diener
Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose - The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership, 4th Edition [John Whitmore] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Completely Revised 4th Edition of the 500, 000 Copy Bestseller! Coaching is a way of managing, a way of treating people
The Psychology of Executive Coaching: Theory and Application [Bruce Peltier] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. With the first edition of this text, Peltier drew on his extensive experience in both the clinical and business worlds to create a comprehensive resource that brought psychological and coaching concepts together. It quickly became a practical and invaluable guide for both mental health practitioners looking to expand their practice into coaching and business professionals interested in improving their own coaching skills. In this updated edition
Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills [Tony Stoltzfus] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools
Masterful Coaching [Robert Hargrove] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. When the first edition of Masterful Coaching was published, it quickly became the standard resource for anyone who was a coach
The Five Minute Coach: Improve Performance Rapidly [Lynne Cooper, Mariette Castellino] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. The Five-Minute Coach offers a simple, step by step guide to how to coach quickly and effortlessly and get amazingly better results at work. Short
50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Toolkit for Developing and Empowering People [Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. The coaching market is still growing, and as it matures clients are becoming demanding buyers of coaching services. The need for coaching to demonstrate credibility and competence is increasing. This book sets out to help professional coaches achieve more with their clients. The new edition of 50 Top Tools for Coaching provides an updated broad range of techniques that can be easily applied to many situations along with new tools for today's coaches and trainers. The book will help coaches assess the needs of their clients
Guerrilla Marketing for Coaches: Six Steps to Building Your Million-Dollar Coaching Practice [Jay Conrad Levinson, Andrew Neitlich] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. START BUILDING YOUR MILLION-DOLLAR COACHING BUSINESS TODAY! The coaching profession has experienced phenomenal growth over the past decade
Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership [Peter Hawkins] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Organizations are most effective when the teams accountable for the organization s success are performing to the best of their abilities. When the relationships within the team work well
Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives [Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl, Laura Whitworth] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. When Co-Active Coaching was first released in 1998, this pioneering work set the stage for what has become a cultural and business phenomenon and helped launch the profession of coaching. Published in more than ten languages now
Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World's Greatest Coaches [Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence S. Lyons] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. When it was published in 2000, Coaching for Leadership became an instant classic in the field of executive coaching. This second edition updates and expands on the original book and brings together the best executive coaches who offer a basic understanding of how coaching works
The Extraordinary Coach: How the Best Leaders Help Others Grow [John Zenger, Kathleen Stinnett] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. COACH YOUR BUSINESS TO SUCCESS USING THIS “INTERACTIVE” APPROACH FROM TWO OF TODAY’S MOST FORWARD-THINKING LEADERSHIP GURUS “A wonderful and indispensable guide to the practice of coaching. The authors are among the most seasoned practitioners around . . . and it shows! Whether you are coaching subordinates or clients
The Tao of Coaching: Boost Your Effectiveness at Work by Inspiring and Developing Those Around You [Max Landsberg] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. A bestselling business title on how to unlock the potential of people by applying the techniques of coaching. Coaching is the key to realising the potential of your employees
A Manager's Guide to Coaching: Simple and Effective Ways to Get the Best From Your Employees [Anne Loehr, Brian Emerson] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. To stay on top, companies need to do more than just tread water - they need to grow. And that means that their employees need to develop and improve their skills at the same pace. More than ever
The Business Coaching Toolkit: Top 10 Strategies for Solving the Toughest Dilemmas Facing Organizations [Stephen G. Fairley, William Zipp] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Discover the 10 best Coaching practices for solving problems and implementing change with clients--right away Coaching works
What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful [Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. America’s most sought-after executive coach shows how to climb the last few rungs of the ladder. The corporate world is filled with executives
Coaching for Improved Work Performance, Revised Edition [Ferdinand Fournies, Ferdinand F. Fournies] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Managing employees in today’s rapidly evolving workplace can sometimes feel like negotiating a minefield. Such recent new trends as flextime
Topgrading: How Leading Companies Win by Hiring, Coaching, and Keeping the Best People, Revised and Updated Edition [Bradford D. Smart Ph.D.] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Great companies don’t just depend on strategies—they depend on people. The more great people on your team
The Business Coach (Instant Success) (Instant Success Series) [Bradley Sugars, Brad Sugars] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Put yourself in the hands of the Business Coach-and run your business like a champion! Follow along as the Coach demonstrates how to successfully navigate the challenges and recognize the opportunities business owners face every day. The Business Coach uses strategies developed by Sugars and the business coaches at Action International
Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training [Patrick Williams, Diane S. Menendez] on Amazon.com. FREE super saver shipping on qualifying offers. Personal and professional coaching, which has emerged as a powerful career in the last several years