Christ-Centered Coaching
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by Jane Creswell
147 pages
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Why should ministry leaders take a serious look at coaching? Author Jane Creswell, a well-known Christian coach with extensive experience coaching in corporate America, answers that question with a look at seven important benefits of Christian coaching.

With examples, sample dialogs, and scripture, Jane lays out what the coaching approach can do. If you are brand new to coaching or want to introduce coaching to a ministry leader who is unfamiliar with the discipline, this book is a great choice.

Coaching for Christian Leaders
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by Linda Miller
148 pages
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Miller and Hall explore the intersection of ministry and Christian coaching in this excellent coaching how-to. The book provide an overview of what coaching is, how it works, and the core skills one needs to develop to coach effectively. Many sample dialogs, lists of coaching questions and application exercises are included. The book also features a variety of worksheets and coaching covenants in the appendix.

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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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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Christian Coaching
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by Dr. Gary Collins
350 pages, hardcover
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Dr. Gary R. Collins, a well-known author in the field of counseling, takes the successful principles of coaching and gives them a God-centered application. Broader in scope than either mentoring or discipling, Christian coaching helps people find God’s vision for their lives and learn to live accordingly.

Through stories, insights, and interviews with influential coaches, Collins presents a model of Christian coaching. The principles can be used to bring vision, passion, and a sense of purpose to your own life, as well as equip you to guide others. You may want to become a professional coach or simply use coaching in your personal ministry or church. Christian Coaching will help you learn the characteristics of an effective coach, how to build those characteristics into your life, and how to coach and lead others with the same leadership style Jesus demonstrated—servant leadership. To download the first 70 pages of the book for reading online or printing out, click on the icon below.

Coaching 101
Price: $12.00
by Bob Logan and Sherilyn Carlton
124 pages
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This introduction to coaching by Bob Logan, a well known church planting consultant and coach, lays out his five-step "Relate/Reflect/Refocus/Resource/Review" coaching model. This book is a good resource for both church planters and those interested in coaching in general.

'God-centered coaching has the power to change lives... both your life and the lives of those you come into contact with,' say Logan and Carlton. Coaching can help us take steps that move toward the completion of the work God has given us to do.

Coaching 101 will help you discover the power of coaching in your life both as a coach and as someone being coached. Your life will be enriched if you will open yourself up to others who desire to enhance the potential of your life. And your heart will beat a little faster as you tap into the adventure God has made available for you, as you invest in the lives of others through coaching.

Transformational Coaching
Price: $19.99
by Dr Joseph Umidi
338 pages
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Transformational Coaching is a declaration that the days of business as usual are over for the ministry and marketplace leader who wants to live and finish well. Transformational coaching relationships, like spiritual fathering, mothering, or mentoring of past generations, exhibits the effectiveness of moving beyond informing to forming, reforming, and even transforming. As relationships require a powerful connection at a heart-to-heart level, coaching builds the bridges that impact, connect, and provide resources to the ministry and marketplace to advance the Kingdom of God.

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

The Coward's Guide to Conflict
Price: $16.95
Empowering Solutions for Those Who Would Rather Run Than Fight
by Tim Ursiny, Ph.D.
282 pages
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As a coach, you'll be called on often to help your clients sort through and effectively face their conflicts at work and at home. This down-to-earth book, written from a coaching perspective, provides practical tools and language for dealing with conflict in a healthy way.

Learn how to deal with conflict with skill and confidence with the help of coach, author and psychologist Tim Ursiny. You'll learn to identify your own conflict style (as well as the style of your coaching clients), motivate yourself to face conflict, and learn tools strategies to succeed in these difficult conversations. Tim also teaches you how to avoid the top 10 mistakes made when dealing with upset people.

The Dreamgiver
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by Bruce Wilkinson
160 pages, hardback
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Bruce Wilkinson, author of the bestselling Prayer of Jabez and creator of the Dreamgiver coaching network, shows how to identify and overcome the obstacles that keep us from living the lives we were created for. This engaging story is a great way to encourage a client who is rising to the challenge of discovering and pursuing their own destiny.

This allegorical modern-day parable follows the story of Ordinary, who dares to leave the Land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream. With the help of the Dream Giver, Ordinary begins the hardest and most rewarding journey of his life. Wilkinson gives readers practical, biblical keys to fulfilling their own dream, revealing what God can accomplish when we choose to pursue the dreams He gives us for His honor.