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August, 2020 | SAGE Publications Ltd

An Introduction to Coaching Skills

A Practical Guide

Third Edition (Updated Edition)
Christian van Nieuwerburgh
- Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
240 pages | August, 2020 | SAGE Publications Ltd
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This bestselling book introduces you step-by-step to the key skills needed to become a successful coach. Supported by an Online Resource site with over 70 videos of coaching in action, this practical book will be an invaluable resource for novices and trainee coaches.

Part I – Context
1 - First things first
2 - Becoming a coach
Part II – Key skills
3 - Listening to encourage thinking
4 - Asking powerful questions
5 - Paraphrasing and summarising
6 - Noticing
Part III – The coaching process
7 - Conversational frameworks
8 - Changing ways of thinking
9 - Positive bias
Part IV – Practical tools and techniques
10 - Body language and emotional intelligence
11 - Inspiring creativity: let’s talk
12 - Inspiring creativity: let’s draw
13 - Inspiring creativity: let’s play
Part V – Coaching way of being
14 - Being human
15 - Inspiring others
Part VI – Conclusion
16 - Reflecting on practice

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NEW TO THIS EDITION: 
  • Over 70 videos of real coaching; including two full length sessions for you to engage with
  • A closer look at coaching processes and models to support your understanding
  • New activities (including templates to download) to try with clients
  • Stories from practice to give context to the skills being discussed.

 

Need: Trainee coach practitioners need to apply theory to practice and learn the ‘how to’ coach

Feature: This extremely practical introduction contains numerous case studies showing theory in action, which will help students understand how to apply theory to actual practice in a variety of settings and which will enable them to use the book as a companion throughout their training from day one.