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Top-Rated Christian Coaching Books and Life Coach Training Resources
Christian Coaching is a rapidly growing new discipline. But if you want Christian coach training or to build life coaching skills, how do you sort what's truly useful out from the the chaff? At Coach22, we've read and professionally reviewed what's out there in the coach training and Christian Life Coaching worlds, and handpicked only the best books, training resources and coaching courses to help you make the most of your time and money.
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New! Essential Web Marketing
Price: $19.95
by Beth Cole
E-book, 150 pages (2 mb)
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Your website is one of the most important links in the marketing chain for a generation that Googles someone before doing business. Essential Web Marketing by Beth Cole will help you get clear about your target market and lead you through a step-by-step process to connect with your ideal clients and stand out from the competition on the web.
Here are five great reasons you may need this book:
- You have a website but nobody finds it or uses it to contact you.
- You are embarrassed to send anyone to your website.
- You need help deciding whether you need a website, facebook page, or other web prescence to grow your business.
- You want to learn to use social media like Facebook to build your business
- You hate technology but you want to reach people outside of your local market.
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New! A Leader's Life Purpose: Handbook
Price: $23.99 - $21.99
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by Tony Stoltzfus
284 pages
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A Leader’s Life Purpose gives you an in-depth look at how a master coach helps Christian leaders discover their life purpose. This handbook is packed with real-life stories, example coaching dialogs and over 60 discovery exercises for use as client action steps. Based on a four-part model of life purpose (Design, Passion, Preparation and Calling), Tony walks you through each major life purpose area, demonstrating powerful techniques like identifying desires under dreams, coaching around hearing God, and much more. The companion A Leader's Life Purpose Workbook provides the client with an outline of the purpose model and all the exercises—a tremendous time-saver in the discovery process.
A Leader’s Life Purpose also lays out the biblical foundations of life purpose, exploring the being-doing tension in calling, and how suffering and sacrifice as well as joy and significance are part of God’s larger plan for our lives.
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The Complete Guide to Christian Coach Training
Price: $19.00
by Linda Hedberg
E-book, 70 pages (9 mb)
Up-to-date research on Christian coach training schools, published in 2009
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The Complete Guide to Christian Coach Training is a one-of-a-kind objective review that gives you the facts on thirteen different Christian coach training programs. If you need help choosing the training program that fits your needs, your budget, and who you want to coach, this e-book is the place to start.
Written in an easy-to-digest format, this thoroughly-researched guide is the result of interviews covering virtually all Christian coaching schools, and provides information you can't get elsewhere. And it's available for immediate download, so within minutes you can be reviewing comprehensive information that will help you make a well-informed decision about your training.
If you are thinking about investing the time and money it takes to get trained as a coach, you owe it to yourself to check out this guide to Christian coach training!
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Transformissional Coaching
Price: $19.99
Empowering Leaders in a Changing Ministry World
by Steve Ogne and Tim Roehl
304 pages, hardcover
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Even leaders need leading. In this greatly changing world, ministry experts Steve Ogne and Tim Roehl have coined the phrase "transformissional" to define the unique type of inspired coaching they offer to spiritual leaders in need of fresh direction.
This book is a basic coaching how-to with an emphasis on church planting, coaching post-moderns and working with leaders. While it covers some of the same ground as other how-to books (like Coaching Christian Leaders or Leadership Coaching), it adds some valuable information on coaching missional leaders and post-moderns that is not found anywhere else. A good addition to a coaches library.
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Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
by Tony Stoltzfus
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100 pages, Large Format
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Want to perfect your asking skills with help from a master coach? Coaching Questions is the best-selling asking resource for coaches in training and seasoned professionals. This comprehensive toolkit is packed with dozens of asking tools, models and exercises, covering everything from conversational models, options and obstacles to advanced asking skills like reframing, tolerations and decision strategies (click here to view the Table of Contents). Each questioning technique is described, then illustrated with coaching question examples (over 1,000 in all), hints and practice exercises. It even includes self-study schedules for becoming a "master of asking". This reference guide is one you'll turn to again and again.
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The Business and Practice of Coaching
Price: $33.95
Finding Your Niche, Making Money, and Attracting Ideal Clients
by Lynn Grodzki & Wendy Allen
300 pages, hardcover
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If you want one book to show you the ropes on how to start a coaching practice, choose this one! Lynn Grodzki and Wendy Allen are veteran business coaches who understand how to strategically approach the business and the practice of coaching as well as how to mentor new coaches entering the profession. The Business and Practice of Coaching is the first text to combine a coaching approach (step-by-step exercises, direct suggestions, insider's tips, and motivational plans) with solid business information and ideas in order to give you exactly what you need to prosper as a coach.
The Business and Practice of Coaching is based on real research about what helps coaches succeed in business. It's solid, helpful information on everything from basic entrepreneurship to creating a business plan, setting up your company, identifying your niche and attracting the right kind of clients.
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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 offer introductory Christian coaching skills training. 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 complete handbook for offering the course, with session outlines, checklists, promotional hints, and follow-up materials. (Click here to see a sample session outline).
- The book Leadership Coaching provides a wealth of background information on the Christian coaching concepts presented. Each discussion question is keyed to the 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 demonstration segments on two discs. Watch real peer coaching demonstrations, discuss, and then try the techniques out with your peer partner.
- A copy of the Peer Coaching Workbook includes handouts, peer exercises, debriefing questions, and other resources for participants. (Click here to view a sample).
- Ten Peer Coaching Brochures are also provided for recruiting people for the training. Click here to see the e-brochure.
The course includes an orientation plus eight 60- to 75-minute coach training sessions. A typical session features a short teaching segment plus a demonstration of a coaching skill, a debriefing time, and an application exercise where peers practice with each other. Several flexible schedules are provided for various workshop or classroom formats. (The workshop options eliminate the peer relationship component and focus solely on developing Christian coaching skills.)
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A Pocket Guide to Coaching Small Groups
by Randall Neighbour
95 pages
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In this quick read, Randall Neighbour, a leader in the cell church movement, tackles one of the biggest problems in small group coaching: building the kind of relationship with the small group leader that makes them want to meet with you. This pocket guide provides excellent info on how to get in each others lives, including tips ontime management, preventing burnout, investing in leaders for maximum impact, and the role of the coach in developing new small group leaders. Training small group coaches in these simple principles will make small group ministry a life-changing experience for everyone involved.
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Becoming a Professional Life Coach
Price: $39.99
by Patrick Williams & Diane Menendez
349 pages, hardcover
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This excellent read by Pat Williams, a leader in the life coaching movement, provides lots of interesting tools for experienced coaches as well as an introduction to life coaching for newcomers to the field. It's a good choice for professional life coaches. The book draws on the wisdom of years of collective experience that have gone into designing the curriculum for the Institute for Life Coach Training. This curriculum has trained therapists and psychologists around the world to add coaching to their current businesses. This book presents the essential elements of that life coach training program in a content-rich form that emphasizes tools, reasearch and practical exercises for using coaching to help others understand and live their life purpose. It includes sections on basic coaching practices, advanced techniques like endorsing and reframing, life purpose and values discovery, and changing mindsets and attitudes.
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DISC Assessment and Report
Price: $57.00 - $29.99
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The Extended DISC® Assessment from Coach22 is a great tool as well as a great bargain. You take a scientifically-validated on-line assessment, from which you will receive a personalized 25-page report on your DISC type. The report tells you what motivates your type, what energizes and de-energizes you, what kind of work environment you flourish in, and much more. Interpretation instructions and action items are also included to help you make the most of what you learn about your personality type. If you want to become more self-aware about your innate Design, this DISC tool does the trick.
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The Life Coaching Library
Price: $117.83 - $99.99
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The Life Coaching Library is a great set of tools for life coaches. It includes five of our top-rated resources: Becoming a Professional Life Coach, The Path, Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries, Blueprint for Life, and Asking to Win.
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Becoming a Professional Life Coach is our top-rated book for learning the process of coaching life purpose issues.
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The Path by Laurie Beth Jones provides a simple, effective method for creating mission and value statements with a client.
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Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries provides an hour of live coaching demos on how to help others pursue their dreams.
- Blueprint for Life is an all-in-one set of life purpose CDs and exercises you can use for classes or one-on-ones with your clients.
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Asking to Win is a pocket asking guide by Bobb Biehl, a leader famous for changing your life with only a few questions.
This bundle is a great set of life coaching tools. So get The Life Coaching Library, and start life coaching today! Click Here to see more discount coaching bundles from Coach22.
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Tony Stoltzfus Author Bundle
Price: $118.82 - $99.99
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Six great titles at a discount price from popular author and coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus.
This package is a great fit for new or aspiring coaches, and includes:
Leadership Coaching is our top-rated book for learning how to coach. 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 demonstrates key concepts in 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.
Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills is a handbook of dozens of asking tools, models and techniques, with self-study schedules to help you put them into practice. Illustrated with over 1000 examples of great coaching questions, this guide is a great way for any coach to sharpen his or her skills.
The Master Coach Series combines three advanced coaching CDs, each with over an hour of live coaching demos, debriefings and input on a particular skill area. Learn techniques that will boost your coaching effectiveness while you listen. Bonus handouts and question lists are also included.
We've bundled these six key resources together at a price you won't find anywhere else. So start building your coaching skills today! Click Here to see more discount bundles from Coach22.
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