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 ...

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 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...

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 last lecture on leadership by the NFL's greatest coach will inspire, inform, and enlighten leaders in all professions. Bill Walsh was a towering figure in the history of the NFL. His advanced leadership transformed the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a legendary...

NEW Edition 2026. Everything you always wanted to know about becoming a Life or Personal Coach by Certified Professional Coach, Lyn Kelley, Ph.D., MFT, CPC With 25+ years experience as a Life Coach and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Dr. Lyn gives you all the proven methods of motivation and goal achievement from the world’s top coaches. Most frequently asked questions about coaching, how to become a coach, how to promote your coaching practice and how to motivate your clients to move toward their success! Dr. Lyn gives you the simple 5-step coaching process and the 12-week ...

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.

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...

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...

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...

Former NBA star and Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient Kareem Abdul-Jabbar explores his 50-year friendship with Coach John Wooden, one of the most enduring and meaningful relationships in sports history. When future NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was still an eighteen-year-old high school...

“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...

Career advice that actually works from a straight-shooter recruiter Did you know the average job search takes more than five months? That’s because today’s job market is more challenging—and more confusing—than ever. How are we supposed to get hired, get paid, and get ahead in our...

In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring.

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 ...

You think you know what it means to coach? Think again. In Confessions of a High School Football Coach, Michael DiMatteo pulls back the curtain on the real world of high school coaching — not the highlight reels or Hollywood versions, but the gut-level truth of what it's like to lead young men through wins, losses, egos, politics, and everything in between. With over three decades of firsthand experience, DiMatteo delivers more than just stories — he delivers hard-earned wisdom. From locker room lessons to parent-teacher battles, from championship highs to soul-crushing defeats, this is...

Teaching the Air Raid A Coach’s Guide to Installing the Effective High School Air Raid Offense Second Book in the Effective High School Air Raid Offense Series Most coaches don’t struggle because they lack plays. They struggle because they lack a clear plan for teaching the offense. Teaching the Air Raid is not a playbook. It is an instructional guide designed to help high school coaches install, teach, and sustain the Air Raid offense with clarity, consistency, and purpose. While Foundations of the Air Raid explains how the offense works, this book focuses on how to teach it—on the ...