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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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 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.)

Life-on-Life Leadership

A Manual for Coaching Discipling Leaders
by Cheryl Baker and Tony Stoltzfus
120 pages, tabbed, with inside pockets
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Eight Principles of Life-on-Life Leadership focuses on coaching discipleship group and small group leaders. Based on The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman, this book wraps Coleman's eight enduring discipling principles with nearly 100 coaching tools and exercises to help leaders apply those principles to small group life.

The manual offers a step-by-step approach to coaching your group leaders. You start by identifying a coaching agenda with an assessment of how the group is doing in each of the eight key areas Coleman's identifies (which cover selecting, training and reproducing leaders). The leader picks an area to focus on, and the manual walks you through the process of creating a growth goal in that area. The coaching tools and exercises provide ready-made action steps, giving the coach something substantial to offer. If your coaches wonder what to do when they meet with a group leader, this book can help.

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Authentic Coaching Relationships

by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (50 minutes) plus handouts in Enhanced CD format
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In this Christian coach training audio CD, coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus shows how to build authentic coaching relationships with those you coach (and with everyone else you meet!) Starting with the idea that an authentic relationship is only one conversation away, Tony shows how to use stories to go deep quickly. The disc covers the two fundamental paradigms of authenticity, four principles of authentic story-telling, different types of life stories you can use while coaching (including the story of your identity), authenticity exercises and more. It's a great way to build relationship coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.

The new Coaching Essentials Series CDs provide training in core skills for aspiring or practicing Christian coaches, in enhanced CD format that includes handouts and free articles as well as audio.

Coaching Transitions
Price: $26.99
by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (127 minutes) plus handouts and exercises
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Major transitions are often seasons of frustration, difficulty and loss. The in-between times when we've lost the old thing and haven't yet moved into the new are difficult to navigate. How do you coach a leader through a major transition?

This two-disc coach training set from master trainer Tony Stoltzfus demonstrates transformational coaching techniques for helping coachees engaging God's purposes for their growth in major life transitions. Starting with the idea that in transitions God births in you the character needed to reach your destiny, Tony shows how to connect times of suffering and difficulty to God's purposes, with several powerful Christian coaching tools based on Romans 8:28. This CD set provides teaching on understanding transitions, plus advanced Christian coach training for aspiring or practicing coaches. Handouts and exercises are included.

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.

Leadership Coaching + Leadership Coaching Live Bundle
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Book plus 4-disc audio set
by Tony Stoltzfus
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This special bundle includes Leadership Coaching--the best how-to book available for learning Christian coaching--plus Leadership Coaching Live, the comapnion disc audio set. Produced by a top Christian coach trainer, these resources are filled with practical tools and application exercises that teach you the nuts and bolts of how to coach.

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