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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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.
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!
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.
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.
A Leader’s Life Purpose Handbook offers an in-depth look at how a master coach helps 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 clients 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.
NOTE: This title is identical to the Christian Life Coaching Handbook - just a different title.
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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The Master Coach Series is a great way for practicing coaches to improve their asking skills. It includes Coaching Visionaries, Problem-Solving the Coaching Way, and Changing Perspective. Each disc in this practical series includes input on several advanced techniques, live demos of that skill by a master coach, and debriefings to help you tune in to exactly how it is done. These CDs even include bonus handouts of powerful questions and transcripts of the coaching conversations to make these tools more accessible to you as you coach.
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.
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.
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 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).
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.)
Getting Started in Leadership Coaching Tele-Course Price: $139.95 With Author and Coach Trainer Tony Stoltzfus Includes Materials (book and 4 CD set - a $60 value)
Spring distance course (open to the public) begins June 25 at 8:00 pm EST.
Getting Started in Leadership Coaching is the perfect introduction to the exploding world of Christian coaching. Based on the acclaimed Leadership Coaching book and CD set, this course will give you an overview of the coaching approach that combines top quality materials with live, interactive tele-classes where you can see principles demonstrated, ask questions and get feedback as you practice your own skills. You'll discover the heart of a coach, learn key coaching values and principles, and begin working with several powerful techniques in the coaching approach, such as:
* How to help people grow while keeping them responsible
* Asking powerful questions
* Following your intuition to generate transformational conversations
* Designing concrete action steps that get done
Our course orientation will be on June 25 at 8:00 pm EST on a telephone bridge line -- you can participate from anywhere in the world! At our orientation we'll choose a time that works for everyone for the class sessions. To sign up, simply purchase the course here. For more details, click here.
To bring this course to your church, e-mail Tony Stoltzfus: Tony@CoachingPastors.com
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
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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.
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Choosing a Coaching School
Here are five key questions to ask yourself when choosing the best coaching school for you:
1. Who do I want to coach? Figure out whether you want to do life coaching, coaching executives, ministry coaching, career coaching, etc. Different schools focus on different things.
2. How do I learn best? While some schools are all tele-class based (no travel required) others use workshops or even individual instruction. Some schools put much more emphasis on forming peer relationships as well. Choose a school that fits your preferred learning style.
3. What can I afford? Business-oriented schools tend to be considerably more expensive than ministry-oriented ones. Check out the pricing!
4. Do I need help starting a business?
Some schools spend quite a bit of time on practice-building skills, while others spend almost none. Decide what you need and research what different schools offer.
5. Is this a good fit with my values? Even the Christian coaching schools differ considerably in their values. Look for a school with business and training practices that reflect what you believe in.
