Coaching Coaches

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 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.

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 create championship caliber coaches on the court and field.

Have you ever wondered why some people are persistently successful, while others continually fail? Has it ever happened to you that you wished to achieve some goal and you achieved it just as you imagined? Why is it that sometimes our desires are fulfilled as if by magic, and at other times the opposite happens? Is there a method to materialize everything we want? What do you want most? Maybe to be happier, healthier and richer? To become a magnet for everything you desire, including money, opportunities and people? Happiness, love? Throughout history there has been a Great Secret that has ...

The profession of life coaching is more necessary than ever in this time of pandemic-related uncertainty, the shift (in some cases, permanent) to remote learning and working, and the constant change that accompanies world events. With his bestselling Therapist as Life Coach, Patrick Williams introduced the therapeutic community to the career of life coach, and in the first and second editions of Becoming a Professional Life Coach, he and Diane S. Menendez covered basic principles and strategies for effective coaching.

Long before he became manager of the St. Louis Cardinals and Kansas City Royals, Mike Matheny grasped the core values of what really mattered when it came to playing baseball. It wasn't attention from fans or the trophy at the end of a season that guided his morals, but the hard-won discipline, labor, and humility that he incorporated into every game he played. Now, in The Dad Coach, Matheny puts his philosophy into action and provides a step-by-step template for coaches and parents to develop solid fundamentals and a strong sense of character in their players.

There was a turning point in Michael Lewis' life, in a baseball game when he was 14 years old. The irascible and often terrifying Coach Fitz put the ball in his hand with the game on the line and managed to convey such confident trust in Lewis's ability that the boy had no choice but to live up to it. "I didn't have words for it then, but I do now: I am about to show the world, and myself, what I can do."

Invisible Innovators: Coaches Who Quietly Changed the Game The spotlight rarely shines on them. Their names aren’t etched in stadiums or shouted in commercials. Yet without their ideas, the sports we love would look completely different. Invisible Innovators uncovers the untold stories of fifteen coaches from around the world who transformed football, basketball, soccer, and beyond. They weren’t always glamorous, but they were pioneers — men who trusted youth before it was fashionable, who brought science into training, who invented systems that others later claimed. Inside, you’ll ...

The Growth Lab gives us another practical and encouraging guide aimed at people first, and organisation a close second. Grow your coaching and wellness practice with insights into ADHD coaching. This concise e-book teaches you the essentials required to coach life and business-coaching clients who have ADHD and often do not know they have executive function challenges. This book is not intended to create an ADHD coach - someone whose primary business is Coaching for the ADHD itself - it is here for the mainstream coach who needs to know more about ADHD. Included in the book is a link to two...

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.

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 role in the growth of several prominent companies, such as Google, Apple, and Intuit, fostering deep relationships with Silicon Valley visionaries, including Steve Jobs, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt.

Agile isn't a framework problem—it's a leadership one. In The Real Work of Agile Coaching, seasoned coaches and change agents will find a brutally honest guide to what it actually takes to shift organizations from within. Forget glossy frameworks, post-it notes, or agile theater—this book dives into the reality of guiding teams and leaders through ambiguity, resistance, politics, and burnout. Drawing on hard-won experience across complex environments, this book delivers clear, direct guidance for building influence, navigating conflict, creating sustainable change, and developing the ...

30-Minute Guide to Coaching Youth Soccer is exactly what the title promises: the essential, unvarnished, deeply practical primer for anyone thrust—willingly or otherwise—into the chaotic, beautiful world of coaching kids’ soccer. Whether you're a parent wrangled into the role, a teacher doing double-duty, or a sports veteran adjusting to the unpredictable logic of under-10s, this book gives you what you actually need. No fluff. No empty platitudes. Just direct, field-tested advice. In thirty densely packed minutes (give or take), you'll get a crash course in how to run a practice that...

Ready to supercharge your leadership prowess and turbo-boost your team's success? Being an effective leader involves so much more than just managing a team or overseeing operations. Unlock the door to leadership excellence and watch as your team transforms into a powerhouse of innovation and decisive action, propelling your organization and company into the future.

Adults on the autism spectrum rarely have access to services once they age out of the school system. Many on the spectrum struggle with forming and building relationships, finding and maintaining jobs, and managing their day-to-day lives. Life Coaching, specifically for adults on the spectrum or anyone who considers themselves neurodivergent, can provide individuals, other coaches, parents, and professionals the tools and skills necessary to guide people to success.

In this, the third book in the series, the focus turns to skill acquisition and development in coaches. Learn to design effective, challenging, and engaging practice environments. Learn to use the Constraints-Led Approach. Use instruction, cueing, and demonstration more effectively.

As a coach at the U12 level, you hold the key to shaping young players' soccer journey and instilling a lifelong love for the game. Soccer Coaching: U12 Soccer Coaching Bible is the ultimate resource for coaches seeking to make a profound impact on U12 players' development. This comprehensive guide takes you on a coaching journey, covering essential topics such as age-specific training methodologies, technical refinement, tactical understanding, progressive challenges, small-sided games, and deliberate practice. With a focus on the unique needs of U12 players, this book equips you with the ...

Soccer is not chaos disguised as sport. It is geometry in motion, a game defined not by clichés of passion or grit but by the manipulation of space, the management of angles, and the orchestration of distances between players. For coaches seeking to move beyond slogans and intuition, Soccer Coaching: Soccer’s Geometry offers a rigorous exploration of the game’s spatial logic. Across thirty detailed chapters, this book unpacks soccer as a discipline of geometry. It begins with the fundamentals—passing angles, triangles, compactness—and builds toward advanced applications: pressing ...