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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Peer Coaching Independent Study

by Tony Stoltzfus Peer Coaching DVD Set plus 2 – Peer Coaching Workbooks

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.

New! Coaching Questions

A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
by Tony Stoltzfus
100 pages, Large Format
Look Inside! Read the "Decision Making Tools" pages

Powerful questions are a coach's greatest tool--so nothing can improve your coaching ability more than mastering the art of asking. Whether you are a coach in training or an experienced professional, Coaching Questions can help you acquire the skills to coach with greater impact.

This reference guide is packed with dozens of asking tools, models and techniques, covering everything from conversational models, options and obstacles to advanced skills like reframing, tolerations and decision strategies (click here to view the Table of Contents). Each technique is briefly described, then illustrated with question examples (over 1,000 in all), hints and application exercises to help you get up to speed quickly.

Coaching for Performance
Price: $19.95
by John Whitmore
180 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

Becoming a Professional Life Coach
Price: $39.99
by Patrick Williams and 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.

Co-active Coaching (2nd edition)
Price: $39.95
by Whitworth, Kinsey-House and Sandahl
265 pages
Now with bonus CD!

Never before has there been such demand for personal and executive coaches to help guide and support others through periods of transition. Today's working professionals are clamoring for help as they struggle to find a more balanced life, increase their self-awareness, and manage stress. Co-Active Coaching presents a revolutionary collaborative approach that allows client and coach to work together to identify both work-related and personal areas of development.

Developed by three pioneers and leading authorities in the coaching field, this new model was created for professional coaches who want to increase their proficiency as well as for those interested in integrating coaching skills into their coaching practice. A comprehensive "coach's toolkit" (with a bonus audio CD) provides over two dozen instructive coaching dialogues and examples, skill-building exercises to develop co-active coaching techniques, coaching tips and traps, and worksheets, exercises, and forms to use with clients.

Coaching for Christian Leaders
Price: $19.99
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.

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: $109.87 - $93.39 On Sale!
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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Becoming a Coaching Leader
Price: $19.95
by Daniel Harkavay
210 pages, hardback
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This must-read business coaching book by 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 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 the tools are available on-line so you can use them, too. This book is a great tool for anyone who coaches managers, executives or entrepreneurs.