Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills

by Tony Stoltzfus
100 pages, Large Format
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Want to perfect your asking skills with the help of a master coach? Coaching Questions is the best-selling asking resource for both 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), asking tips 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.

Leadership Coaching: The Disciplines, Skills and Heart of a Christian Coach

by Tony Stoltzfus
320 pages
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Leadership Coaching is our best-selling how-to book for learning Christian coaching or improving life coaching skills. You'll soon see why it is widely used internationally in coaching schools and training courses: it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that teach you the nuts and bolts of how to coach.

The first section describes the part coaching can play in the larger purposes of God for a believer's life. Tony goes beyond simply pointing to question examples in scripture to explain the biblical values behind Christian leadership coaching. Section II shows you how to coach with a hands-on, interactive style. The book guides you through each of the seven key process elements of effective coaching in detail. Special Master Class chapters provide extra examples and training exercises for important skills. To get even more out of this great book, get it bundled with the companion Leadership Coaching Live! CD set, or save even more with the Tony Stoltzfus Author Bundle.

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The Complete Guide to Christian Coach Training (New for 2012)
Price: $19.99
by Linda Hedberg
E-book, 106 pages (9 mb)
Up-to-date research on Christian coach training schools, updated for 2012
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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!

Asking Profound Questions (formerly "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 life- and business planning consultant, 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 pocket resource for Christian coaches seeking to improve their asking skills or find examples of life-changing questions.

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 small group movement, tackles one of the biggest problems in small group coaching: building the kind of relationships with small group leaders that make them want to meet with you. This pocket guide provides excellent info on how to get in each others lives--including tips on time 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.

Pro-Active Parent Coaching
Price: $19.95
Capturing the Heart of Your Child
by Gregory Bland
Forward by Tony Stoltzfus
174 pages
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This wonderfully-practical manual shows how to apply the coaching approach to Christian parenting. Filled with sample coaching dialogs, practice exercises and feedback from youth about how the coaching approach has impacted them, author Greg Bland shows how valuing your kids' hearts through listening and asking can transform your relationships. Written by a coach who has actually done this in his own family, this book doesn't just tell you about parent coaching: it trains you to do it.

The Calling Journey

by Tony Stoltzfus
188 pages
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The Calling Journey fills a vital need for coaches by mapping out the progression of stages and transitions God moves us through on the road to our call. This path includes predictable mountains to scale and painful, disorienting valleys all leaders must navigate to fulfill their destiny. Each stage has a unique growth agenda, and Tony shows how to coach each stage differently to line up with what God is doing in that season.

Filled with examples from the lives of biblical and contemporary leaders and overflowing with insight on how God works through our circumstances, The Calling Journey will provide a powerful perspective on your own journey and a great set of tools to work with those you coach.

The Master Coach Series
Price: $41.85
by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (60+ min on each CD) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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Listening to a great coach at work in the Master Coach Series is an easy way to sharpen your coaching skills even during your drive time.

How to Ask Great Questions
Price: $7.99
by Karen Lee Thorp
71 pages
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This short, practical volume offers a wealth of great tips and techniques for constructing excellent coaching questions. While not a coaching book per se (it is targeted at small group coaches or leaders), How to Ask Great Questions covers quite a few of the bread and butter asking techniques coaches use: open and closed questions, probing questions, asking about what's significant, and bringing out people's inner thoughts and true feelings.

The best feature of the book is that it includes example after example of great questions created for specific scenarios or situations. Any coach (and especially beginners, coaches in training or small group coaches) could benefit from having How to Ask Great Questions handy.

Dream Culture: Bringing Dreams to Life
Price: $15.00
By Andy and Janine Mason
167 pages
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What would it be like to live in a community where everyone was empowered one to live out their dreams? Dream Culture is about activating us to dream God-dreams, and about helping leaders build cultures where people are encouraged to dream, risk and do the impossible.

Coaches Andy and Janine Mason have circled the globe to follow their own calling, and use that experience to help you live yours. Focusing on God's imperative to be a dreamer, the foundation beliefs necessary to live a dream life and ways to overcome obstacles we face, this book is a great life purpose tool for coaches. Coaching questions, dream activations and powerful stories show how to turn ideas into action steps and develop an intentional lifestyle that brings dreams to life.

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

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Leadership Coaching Live gives you the chance to experience what Christian coaching can do, by letting you watch 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 Christian coaching skills, live coaching appointments, insightful debriefings and training sessions by a top Christian life coach trainer. The book and CDs together are a perfect training tool to introduce others to the world of Christian coaching, especially using the FREE coaching 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 [the prior] five years.”
-- Senior Pastor

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.)

Coaching for Performance, 4th Edition
Price: $24.95
by John Whitmore
4th Edition, 232 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

Tony Stoltzfus Author Bundle
Price: $118.82 - $99.99 On Sale!
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.

Getting Started in Leadership Coaching Presenter's Package v3.0 -- Download
Price: $49.95 - $9.95 On Sale!
by Tony Stoltzfus
Revised for 2011! Coach Training Outlines for a Complete Level I Coaching Course
Electronic Download
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This Open Source coach training course outline will help you introduce Christian life coaching in your church, team or ministry. The new version 3.0 also includes a 75-slide PowerPoint presentation for doing in-person classes.

The 8-session class or tele-class outlines contain everything you need to offer the Getting Started in Leadership Coaching training course. Participant materials (purchased separately) are the acclaimed book Leadership Coaching and the companion 4-disc Leadership Coaching Live! CD set. Each week participants read a few chapters from the book, listen to a demo coaching session from the CD set, and then participate in a live, interactive class session with you as the coach trainer.

This complete Presenter's Package includes: in-depth presenter's outlines, course schedules, a participant's packet, a PowerPoint presentation, an orientation session outline, tips for running and promoting the coaching class--even a color promotional e-flyer you can modify with your course name and dates.

Open Source means you can offer training royalty free. Along with the downloadable materials, you'll also get a license to purchase the participant books and CDs at a special 30% discount. Please note: this is not a self-study course, but a set of outlines that let you function as a trainer for others.