Coaching Coaches

The team behind How Google Works returns with management lessons from legendary coach and business executive, Bill Campbell, whose mentoring of some of our most successful modern entrepreneurs has helped create well over a trillion dollars in market value. Bill Campbell played an instrumental...

The new 3rd edition of this highly valued and popular textbook offers updated behavior change models, theories and essential healthy lifestyle information with the biometric data coaches need to know. Also included: comprehensive, actionable lessons for the key competencies needed for the NBHWC exam; new guidelines for group coaching, a vastly improved index; coaching templates for doing intake sessions, initial meetings, ongoing sessions, motivational interviewing, and for closing the coaching relationship; client agreement forms; and several types of Wellness Wheels for use with clients. ...

“Coaches rely far too much on asking open-ended questions,” says Marcia Reynolds. But questions only seek answers — inquiry provides insight. When, instead of just questions, clients hear their thoughts, opinions, and beliefs spoken by someone else, it prompts them to critically consider how their thinking affects their goals. Reynolds cites the latest brain science to show why reflective inquiry works and provides techniques, tips, and structures for creating breakthrough conversations.

Inside this essential coaching blueprint, you'll discover a treasure trove of actionable strategies designed to ignite that winning fire in every player. Learn how to: Forge the bedrock of mental toughness: Implement a coach's blueprint for developing advanced cognitive appraisal, elite emotional regulation, unwavering behavioral persistence, and superior self-efficacy in your team. Cultivate an indomitable growth mindset: Equip your players to embrace challenges, learn from setbacks, and relentlessly pursue improvement. Master composure under pressure: Provide practical solutions to help ...

Read by the author. Whether you’re thinking about starting a consulting business or have been coaching for a while, Coach Builder will give you the 8-step plan every self-employed coach needs to be successful. Have you experienced a moment when you realized your career wasn’t as secure or...

This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources. Aguilar offers a model for transformational coaching which could be implemented as professional development in schools or districts anywhere.

Moving seamlessly from coaching fundamentals to more advanced ideas such as helping clients to identify life purpose, recognize and combat obstacles, align values and actions, maintain a positive mind-set, and live with integrity, this new edition is one-stop-shopping for beginner and advanced coaches alike. Beginning with a brief history of the foundations of coaching and its future trajectory, Becoming a Professional Life Coach takes listeners step-by-step through the coaching process, covering all the crucial ideas and techniques for being a successful life coach. 

The mark of a great coach is a constant desire to learn and grow. A hunger to use whatever can make them better. The best-selling author of Teach Like a Champion and Reading Reconsidered brings his considerable knowledge about the science of classroom teaching to the sports coaching world to...

This complete guide to life coaching reveals what life coaching is, how to coach yourself and others effectively, and how to create and sustain a successful coaching practice. Leading you through a comprehensive program of advanced life coaching skill, The Life Coaching Handbook is the essential guide for life coaches, and a key sourcebook for NLP practitioners, human resources managers, training professionals, counselors, and the curious. Curly Martin is a professional life coach, author, trainer, and internationally qualified NLP master practitioner.

In this informative and inspirational book, Coach K, Duke University's head basketball coach, tells readers how he coaxes peak performances from his team, relying on lessons he learned as a captain in the U.S. Army. Duke University's head basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski has proved himself a...

Evoke change your way by bringing your whole self to the world. Become the Successful Coach You Are Meant to Be is your guide to navigating the rapidly expanding field of professional coaching. It reveals how you can become an influential changemaker by translating your skills, wisdom and passions into a prosperous coaching career or business. Start working holistically with those who need you most in just a few months! Written by Feroshia Knight, world-renowned creator of Whole Person Coaching® and founder of Coach Training World, this book provides a rare insider’s view into the world ...

“There are teachers with a rare ability to enter a child’s mind; it’s as if their ability to get there at all gives them the right to stay forever.” There was a turning point in Michael Lewis’s life, in a baseball game when he was fourteen years old. The irascible and often terrifying...

To create a more sustainable transformation in the people you coach, you need to start with your own mindset. As a coach, you know you can’t change what you do, unless you alter what you believe first. By shedding the ineffective scripts, trappings and beliefs that a lifetime of personal interactions, professional training and even your parents have taught you, you can reset your thinking to a beginner’s mentality and so begin a fulfilling and exciting journey to coaching mastery.

Life coaching is not advice, motivation, or therapy. At its core, it is a structured way of helping people think clearly, take responsibility, and move forward. Life Coaching Made Easy is a practical introduction to life coaching for people who want to understand how it actually works and how to use it effectively, whether for themselves or with others. This book explains the fundamentals of coaching in plain language. It shows what coaches really do, how coaching conversations are structured, and why good coaching relies more on listening and questioning than on giving answers. You will ...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Matheny Manifesto offers the definitive guide to coaching youth baseball and instilling positive values on and off the field. Long before he became manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals, Mike Matheny grasped the core values of what...

Unavailable in book form! Multimillion copy bestselling audio superstar Tony Robbins offers his blockbuster original audio program for the retail market in both CD and audio download formats! How do you really want to live? What are you most excited about? What are you grateful for? Do you often...

This book is a very special book, a book that can change your life if you let it. It’s about tough times and transformation, filled with lots of inspiring stories by elite coaches who are fully open, transparent and vulnerable as they tell you about the tough times they have faced, the troubles they have navigated. The stories are deep and personal, and they will touch your heart. You will find stories about something most people don’t want to talk about. It’s about those dark moments of the soul that we all encounter; the rough patches in life when nothing seems to be going right. ...

The ultimate business coaching book, Coach: Coaching for Business Performance is an operation manual for all business coaches and leaders to leverage their relationships with clients or team members who depend on their leadership or guidance. Learn how to increase production and performance with detailed models for effective goal setting, about accountability practices, and how to troubleshoot common obstacles coaches encounter. This book is a must-have for anyone looking for a system to implement to help others succeed and reach their goals.

Today's coaches are challenged with the recurring task of weaving threads from several disciplines into a tapestry that is fit for purpose in helping their clients learn and succeed. In this sense, the coach has to become a discriminating eclectic, developing a keen sense of judgment to select which threads are best woven into the fabric and those that it would be better to simply throw away.  

Are you about to be a first time youth baseball coach and have questions or are nervous on what to expect, this book will answer these questions and help put you at ease. This book will assist you by outlining what the coach role entails. It also gives you tips on how to manage the process, how to prepare yourself to be successful and how to handle tough situations. What you will gain from reading this book Explanation of each step of the process Tips on how to communicate Tips on what to do at tryouts Tips on what to do at the draft How to organize practices and scrimmages Selecting ...