Coaching from A to Z and back again
52 Ideas, tools and models for great coaching conversations
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2025
Book
Hardback
276 pages
978-1-041-05453-5 (ISBN)
Description
Written by an experienced coach, mentor and mediator, this book is perfect for developing your coaching skills by drawing on ideas, tools and models to help you engage in effective coaching conversations.
It takes ideas from a variety of approaches to coaching and explores issues such as ethics, coaching as a line manager, boundaries and qualifications/accreditation. It summarises key ideas from the literature on management, leadership, psychology and personal effectiveness, as well as coaching.
Written in 52 short accessible chapters from A to Z and back again, it is a clear and engaging guide that can be read from beginning to end, or dipped in to as appropriate. Critical questions throughout help the reader to reflect on their own knowledge and apply it to their work or studies. This book is ideal for students on coaching programmes, people working as a coach, consultants, learning and development practitioners, and managers at all levels from supervisor to director.
It takes ideas from a variety of approaches to coaching and explores issues such as ethics, coaching as a line manager, boundaries and qualifications/accreditation. It summarises key ideas from the literature on management, leadership, psychology and personal effectiveness, as well as coaching.
Written in 52 short accessible chapters from A to Z and back again, it is a clear and engaging guide that can be read from beginning to end, or dipped in to as appropriate. Critical questions throughout help the reader to reflect on their own knowledge and apply it to their work or studies. This book is ideal for students on coaching programmes, people working as a coach, consultants, learning and development practitioners, and managers at all levels from supervisor to director.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional Practice & Development
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
581 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-041-05453-5 (9781041054535)
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Bob Thomson
Coaching from A to Z and back again
52 Ideas, tools and models for great coaching conversations
E-Book
02/2025
Routledge
€28.99
Available for download
Bob Thomson
Coaching from A to Z and back again
52 Ideas, tools and models for great coaching conversations
E-Book
02/2025
Routledge
€28.99
Available for download
Bob Thomson
Coaching from A to Z and back again
52 Ideas, tools and models for great coaching conversations
Book
01/2023
1st Edition
Critical Publishing Ltd
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Person
Bob Thomson is a Professor at Warwick Business School, an experienced and accredited coach and supervisor of coaching, and a workplace mediator. He collaborated with the University of Warwick Wellbeing Services team to deliver a series of webinars to help line managers support their staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. He has worked as a volunteer counsellor and as a Samaritan. He is the author of a number of books on coaching and learning from experience.
He was previously Leadership Development Manager at National Grid Transco. Before moving into coaching and management development he worked as an economist for eleven years with British Steel and ICI. Bob has degrees in maths, in economics and in management learning. He also has Certificates in counselling, coaching, supervision, and mediation.
He was previously Leadership Development Manager at National Grid Transco. Before moving into coaching and management development he worked as an economist for eleven years with British Steel and ICI. Bob has degrees in maths, in economics and in management learning. He also has Certificates in counselling, coaching, supervision, and mediation.
Content
A Awareness + Responsibility = Performance ABCDE model. CBC and Acceptance and commitment coaching B Boundaries Being a coach C Culture Contracting and confidentiality D Don't Just Do Something, Sit There Debate and dialogue E Emotional intelligence Ethics F Feedback Facilitation G GROW model Growing People H How to Coach How not to coach I The inner game of coaching Impostor syndrome Judgement Journey Kolb learning cycle Kantor's languages. Meetings L Listening Letting go M Mentoring Managing people - coaching as a line manager N Note taking and keeping Neuroscience and the Chimp Paradox O I'm OK, You're OK Objectives, obstacles, options and outcomes P Playing back Psychometrics Q Questioning Qualifications and accreditation R Coaching as a relationship Rich pictures (and other tools?) S Supervision Solution-focused coaching T Teams Time management U Understanding Yourself and Others Use of self V Voicing Values in Action. Positive Psychology W Writing Why? X Xtraverts and Introverts Xploring metaphors Y Theory Y and Theory X Your own practice Z Zoom Zone of proximal development