New! Coaching Questions

A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
Available 5/3/08
by Tony Stoltzfus
100 pages, Large Format
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Powerful questions are a coach's greatest tool--so nothing can improve your coaching ability more than mastering the art of asking. Whether you are a coach in training or an experienced professional, Coaching Questions can help you acquire the skills to coach with greater impact.

This reference guide is packed with dozens of asking tools, models and techniques, covering everything from conversational models, options and obstacles to advanced skills like reframing, tolerations and decision strategies (click here to view the Table of Contents). Each technique is briefly described, then illustrated with question examples (over 1,000 in all), hints and application exercises to help you get up to speed quickly.

The Aspiring Coach's Library
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This bundle of five essential titles is what we recommend for aspiring coaches--and it's a great value, too! If you want to become a coach or are seriously looking into it, start here.

The Aspiring Coach's Library includes five top-rated coaching resources: Christ Centered Coaching, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Coaching Live!, Coaching for Performance, and Asking to Win.

Christ-Centered Coaching by Jane Creswell (a leading figure in the Christian coaching movement) is the book we recommend for a first introduction to coaching. It focuses on the key benefits of coaching for ministry leaders, and will help you tune into to what coaching can do both for you and for those you work with.

Leadership Coaching is our top-rated book for learning how to coach. Written by a top coach trainer, this title is filled with tools, sample dialogs, and skill building exercises. It also grounds those techniques in a solid presentation of the coaching approach and in a biblical value system. Leadership Coaching Live! is a companion 4-disc set that goes with the book. Reading about coaching is good, but it is essential that you spend time listening to a great coach at work to catch the nuances of how it's done.

Our top-selling business coaching book is Coaching for Performance, and here's why: not only is it written by one of the original founders of the coaching movement, but it has the most lucid introduction to business coaching we've seen, and it presents the most common coaching conversational model (GROW) in great depth. This is one every coach should have on their shelf.

Asking to Win is a pocket asking guide by Bobb Biehl, a leader famous for changing your life with only a few questions. It contains 200 excellent examples of coaching questions, arranged by category. This booklet is a great way to learn some excellent questions (and a great crutch when you get stuck and don't know what to ask!)

We've bundled these five key resources together at a price you won't find anywhere else. So get The Aspiring Coach's Library, and start learning to coach today!

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Peer Coaching Facilitator's Package

by Tony Stoltzfus
Books, DVDs and Promotional Materials

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Peer Coach Training can help you build lasting, accountable peer relationships in your church, small group or team. Or, it can be the perfect way to bring basic skills training to your coaches. This Facilitator's Package includes everything a leader needs to offer Peer Coach Training in his or her group. The package includes:

• The Peer Coaching Facilitator’s Guide is the leader’s handbook for offering the course. It includes checklists and promotional materials for launching the course, as well as a plethora of follow-up materials. The guide makes it easy to offer the training. (Click here to see a sample session outline).
• The book Leadership Coaching provides a wealth of background information on the coaching concepts presented in the training. Each debriefing question is keyed to the exact pages in the book where that concept is discussed. Click here to read a sample chapter.
• The Peer Coaching DVD Set includes 25 teaching and coaching demonstration segments on two discs. You’ll watch actual peer coaching demonstrations, discuss them, and then try the techniques out on your own peer partner.
• A copy of the Peer Coaching Workbook includes handouts for the teachings and demos, peer exercises, debriefing questions, and other resources for developing the peer relationships. (Click here to view a sample).
• Ten Peer Coaching Brochures are also provided for recruiting people for the training. Click here to see the matching e-brochure.

The course includes an orientation plus eight 60- to 75-minute group sessions. A typical session features a short teaching segment plus a demonstration of a coaching skill from the DVD, a debriefing time led by the facilitator, and an application exercise where peers practice that week’s coaching skill on each other. Several delivery formats are provided to fit your calendar, including two schedules for using the materials to offer basic coach training workshops (these options eliminate the peer relationship component and focus solely on developing coaching skills.)

Leadership Coaching

The Disciplines, Skills and Heart of a Christian Coach
by Tony Stoltzfus
320 pages
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Leadership Coaching is quite simiply the best how-to book available for anyone who wants to become a Christian coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life.

Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, this book goes beyond proof-texting to present an integrated, values-based paradigm for leadership coaching.

Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life. Leadership Coaching is a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow.

To get even more out of this great book, purchase the companion CD set, Leadership Coaching Live!

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Leadership Coaching Live! CD Set
Price: $39.99
by Tony Stoltzfus
Eight interactive sessions (4 hours) on 4 CDs
A companion to the book, Leadership Coaching

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Leadership Coaching Live gives you the chance to experience what coaching can do by watching a master coach at work. A perfect companion to the book, Leadership Coaching, this eight-session set was recorded live, and includes demos of key coaching skills, live coaching appointments, insightful debriefings and teaching sessions by a top Christian coach trainer. The book and CDs together are a perfect teaching tool to introduce others to the world of coaching, especially using the FREE course outlines (choose the second item below to get the outlines).

“I have a discipling relationship I’ve had for years. We’ve made more progress in the last few months using some of your questions than we have in five years.” -- Senior Pastor

Coaching for Performance
Price: $19.95
by John Whitmore
180 pages
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Clear, concise, hands-on and friendly, Coaching for Performance is a top-rated business coaching guide written in a coaching style. Perfect for beginners or for practicing coaches, this bestselling handbook will help you master key skills of the coaching model and unlock people's potential to maximize their own performance.

The book contains an excellent introduction to the coaching approach, and follows with an in-depth look at the "GROW" conversational model, a widely used blueprint for structuring a coaching conversation. With tips, example questions and sample dialogue for each step, this definitive guide will quickly have you coaching people to clarity and action.

Adopted by many of the world's major corporations and with over 200,000 copies in print, this easy-to-use title argues persuasively for:

- Using questions instead of commands to raise awareness and responsibility
- Using the GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) to generate prompt action and peak performance
- The growing need to relate to the individual's sense of meaning and purpose

New! Life-on-Life Leadership

A Manual for Coaching Discipling Leaders
by Cheryl Baker and Tony Stoltzfus
120 pages, tabbed, with inside pockets
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Eight Principles of Life on Life Leadership is a practical handbook for coaching discipleship group leaders. The manual takes the eight timeless principles in the classic book, The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman, and uses nearly 100 coaching tools and exercises to help leaders apply them to small group life.

This coach's manual provides a step by step approach to coaching group leaders toward greater effectiveness. The process starts with an the leader and coach doing an assessment of group life based on Coleman's eight principles of discipleship (which cover selecting, training and reproducing leaders). The group leader chooses what to focus on and creates a growth goal in that area. Then the tools and coaching exercises in the manual are used to help move things forward. Click Here for more products from this author.

A Pocket Guide to Coaching Small Groups

by Randall Neighbour
95 pages
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What your leaders need most is a friend... a friend who will support them in ministry and help their group achieve its goals. Without this kind of highly relational support, a small group ministry won’t grow and birth new groups.

In this quick read Randall Neighbour, a leader in the cell church movement, illustrates how to build effective relationships between small group leaders and their coaches. This pocket guide provides excellent tips for time management, preventing burnout, investing in leaders for maximum impact, and the role of the coach in developing new leaders. If your coaches embrace the simple principles found in this book, they will become the kind of coach that makes small group ministry a life-changing experience for everyone involved.

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Authentic Coaching Relationships

by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (50 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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In this audio CD, recorded at a large small groups conference, coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus shows you how to build authentic relationships with those you coach (and with everyone else you meet!) Starting with the idea that an authentic relationship is only one conversation away, Tony shows how to use stories to catalyze an authentic atmosphere quickly. The disc covers the two fundamental paradigms of authenticity, four principles of authentic story-telling, different types of life stories (including the story of your identity), authenticity exercises and more. It's a great way to build coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.

The new Coaching Essentials Series CDs provide training in core skills for aspiring or practicing coaches, on enhanced CD format that includes handouts and articles as well as audio.

Asking to Win

by Bob Biehl
31 pages
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A great question can transform your life. In this compact, high-impact booklet, Bobb Biehl, a well-known speaker and consultant on life- and business planning, has captured over 100 jewels from his own experience of asking profound questions. The booklet also contains samples of several planning tools and rules of thumb for asking, planning and deciding.

Bob Biehl's questions run the gamut from career change to brainstorming to organizing to problem solving. It's a great resource for coaches who are looking to improve their asking skills or find examples of life-changing questions.

The Questions of Jesus
Price: $12.95
by John Dear
306 pages
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"The most frequently asked question in all four Gospels," writes author John Dear, "is perhaps the most beautiful: 'What do you want me to do for you?' With this question, we discover not so much a God who demands to be waited on, but a God who is eager to serve." If you want to learn more about questions from Jesus himself, this book will help take you on that quest. It arranges 125 questions of Jesus in 19 categories, and then provides a meditation on the meaning of each. For a coach, just having the list of questions is worth the price of the book. It also serves up ocassional nuggets like Richard Rohr's observation in the introduction that "Jesus only directly answers three of the 183 questions that he himself is asked." Fascinating.

John Dear is a priest, retreat leader, author, and peace activist, who draws from experiences such as serving as Red Cross coordinator for chaplains for families after the 9/11 attack. The meditations on each question focus on topics like justice, love, forgiveness and non-violence. If you come from a conservative or evangelical stream, this book can also be a good challenge to look into parts of Jesus message that are probably heard less often in your world.

Stop Parenting and Start Coaching
Price: $16.95
by Carol Carter, Gary Izumo and Joe Martin
100 pages
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Raising a teenager isn’t easy. Helping your child grow and change from someone dependent on your direction and care into an independent, self-sufficient young adult requires major changes in parenting strategy. Stop Parenting and Start Coaching can help you make the change from a telling parent to a coach -- a change that often allows both you and your teen to start enjoying your relationship again. The practical, easy-to-read story format introduces you to some of the tools and techniques of the coaching approach to parenting teens. Stop Parenting and Start Coaching can help you:

• See yourself through your teen’s eyes
• Understand what teenagers are going through
• Improve communication with coaching techniques like listening and asking
• Champion your child’s gifts, dreams and goals while increasing his or her motivation to succeed