The FT Guide to Business Coaching shows you everything you need to know
about becoming a business coach, from how to find out if you’ve got what it takes,
through the basic tools and models that really work.
This book gives you a step-by-step guide to the tools, the market knowledge and
the crucial new techniques from psychology you need to become an exceptional business
coach. Clear, compelling and comprehensive, covering classic and fresh material from both
business and psychology, this is the first book to cover both the critical elements of
world-class business coaching.
This book takes you through a tried and trusted process developed specifically for
senior business leaders. It will help you:
- Know when to coach and when to lead.
- Build powerful listening skills.
- Get to grips with the most useful and up-to-the minute coaching tools and
psychological techniques.
- Calculate if – and crucially, how - you can make a living as a business coach.
- Decide if, how and when to go for accreditation as a coach.
Table of Contents
Publisher’s acknowledgements
1 Introduction: The business of coaching
2 The coaches
3 Do you have what it takes?
4 Developing your coaching: first steps
5 Building your basic coaching skills: the ‘Big Five’
6 Building coaching skills: the different approaches
7 Deepening coaching skills: working with individual difference
8 Advanced coaching: from individuals to groups
9 Advanced coaching: coaching and career transitions
10 Advanced coaching: motivation and change
11 Why it works
12 Building a freelance coaching business
Author's acknowledgements
References and further reading
Index
248 pages, Paperback