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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Peer Coaching Independent Study

by Tony Stoltzfus Peer Coaching DVD Set plus 2 – Peer Coaching Workbooks
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Peer Coach Training is designed to build accountable, growth-centered peer relationships in groups. The Peer Coaching Independent Study makes it easy for as few as two people to go through the training without having to recruit an entire group to do it. It is also a great way for you and a friend to learn the fundamentals of the coaching approach by watching a great coach at work. Here are several scenarios where the independent study package can come in handy:

• You want to check out the Peer Coach Training materials before doing the program in your church.
• You have several people who missed out on the group training you just did but who would still like to form peer relationships.
• Some newcomers have joined your group since you started doing peer coaching and you need a way to get them up to speed.
• You and a friend or co-worker would like to learn the basics of coaching together.

Simply listen to the DVDs together and follow the schedule in the Workbook to go through the course. It takes only an evening a week for nine weeks to gain a significant, authentic friendship that will help you grow.

Your trainer for these sessions, Tony Stoltzfus, is a master coach with years of experience working with ministry leaders and a coach trainer who has worked with hundreds of professional Christian coaches. Click Here for more resources from this author.

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.

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 plenty 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 life coaching in a content-rich form that emphasizes tools, research 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.

Coaching for Christian Leaders
Price: $19.99
by Linda Miller
148 pages
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Linda Miller and Chad Hall explore the intersection of ministry leadership and Christian coaching in this excellent how-to. The book provide an overview of what Christian 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.

The Coaching Starter Kit
Price: $39.95
Everything You Need to Launch and Expand Your Practice
by Coachville
350 pages
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The Coaching Starter Kit is a comprehensive all-in-one toolkit to help you get started in the business of coaching. Culled from the extensive resources of CoachVille.com, this book includes over 150 practical forms, lists and outlines to help you succeed in your coaching business. The material runs the gamut of the nuts and bolts of creating a coaching practice: the coaching process, practice design, attracting clients, session agendas and discussion topics, sample client data sheets and agreements, client questionnaires, coaching niches, marketing and PR tips, and more, as well as a wide collection of goal-oriented and issue-specific client worksheets you can photocopy or modify to suit your own practice.

The Coaching Starter Kit is a complete toolkit of coaching basics and advice that will equip you well as you enter the coaching field.

The Aspiring Coach's Library
Price: $114.87 - $97.99 On Sale!
This bundle of five essential titles is what we recommend for aspiring Christian 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 offers 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 for you and for those you work with.

Leadership Coaching is our top-rated book for learning how to coach. Written by a top Christian 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 Christian 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 Profound Questions 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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Becoming a Coaching Leader
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by Daniel Harkavay
210 pages, hardback
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This must-read book by Christian business coach Daniel Harkavay (the CEO of Building Champions and Ministry Coaching International) lays out the idea that fulfillment and success for managers or execs comes from investing in your people and their destinies. He also explains his 4-part executive / life coaching system. It starts with defining a personal life plan, then a business vision, a business plan, and final drills down to priority management. Copies of a number of Harkavay's coaching tools are available on-line so you can use them, too. This book is a great tool for any Christian business coach who works with managers, executives or entrepreneurs.

Coaching the Artist Within
Price: $14.95
Advice for Writers, Actors, Visual Artists and Musicians from America's Foremost Creativity Coach
by Eric Maisel
225 pages
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Coaching the Artist Within is the first book to explain the techniques that creativity coaches use to help their clients survive and thrive in the arts. The book’s twelve lessons and numerous exercises explain how to coach artists beyond the obstacles that block creativity. Author Eric Maisel shares anecdotes about his creativity coaching clients, including painters, actors, screenwriters, novelists, dancers, and poets. Coaching the Artist Within will teach you to self-coach or coach creativity issues, and the results will transform your relationship with the creative process.

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.

The Coach Model for Christian Leaders
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By Keith E. Webb
171 pages
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In The Coach Model, Keith Webb introduces a five-step process powered by questions. Dividing his model based on the acronym C.O.A.C.H. he pairs each step with question asking techniques that will, as Keith states, “equip you to ask powerful and helpful questions.”

The five steps of Keith’s model include the following:

• C = connect. Building rapport and trust with the person you are talking to and following up on action steps from previous meetings.
  
• O = outcome. The intended results the coachee would like to achieve during the conversation.
  
• A = awareness. Reflective dialogue intended to produce increased perspective for the coachee.
  
• C = course. Helping the coachee create action steps.
  
• H = highlights. Reviewing the parts of the conversation that the coachee found most meaningful to reinforce insights and strengthen learning.