Coaching Transitions

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 set from master trainer Tony Stoltzfus shows how to coach others toward 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 coaching tools based on Romans 8:28. This CD set provides teaching on understanding transitions, plus training in advanced coaching skills for aspiring or practicing coaches. Handouts and exercises are included.

New! 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 is a practical handbook for coaching discipleship group leaders. The manual takes the eight timeless principles in the classic book, The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman, and uses nearly 100 coaching tools and exercises to help leaders apply them to small group life.

This coach's manual provides a step by step approach to coaching group leaders toward greater effectiveness. The process starts with an the leader and coach doing an assessment of group life based on Coleman's eight principles of discipleship (which cover selecting, training and reproducing leaders). The group leader chooses what to focus on and creates a growth goal in that area. Then the tools and coaching exercises in the manual are used to help move things forward. Click Here for more products from this author.

Authentic Coaching Relationships

by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (50 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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In this audio CD, recorded at a large small groups conference, coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus shows you how to build authentic 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 catalyze an authentic atmosphere quickly. The disc covers the two fundamental paradigms of authenticity, four principles of authentic story-telling, different types of life stories (including the story of your identity), authenticity exercises and more. It's a great way to build coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.

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

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 bring basic skills training to your coaches. 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 handbook for offering the course. It includes checklists and promotional materials for launching the course, as well as a plethora of follow-up materials. The guide makes it easy to offer the training. (Click here to see a sample session outline).
• The book Leadership Coaching provides a wealth of background information on the coaching concepts presented in the training. Each debriefing question is keyed to the exact 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 coaching demonstration segments on two discs. You’ll watch actual peer coaching demonstrations, discuss them, and then try the techniques out on your own peer partner.
• A copy of the Peer Coaching Workbook includes handouts for the teachings and demos, peer exercises, debriefing questions, and other resources for developing the peer relationships. (Click here to view a sample).
• Ten Peer Coaching Brochures are also provided for recruiting people for the training. Click here to see the matching e-brochure.

The course includes an orientation plus eight 60- to 75-minute group sessions. A typical session features a short teaching segment plus a demonstration of a coaching skill from the DVD, a debriefing time led by the facilitator, and an application exercise where peers practice that week’s coaching skill on each other. Several delivery formats are provided to fit your calendar, including two schedules for using the materials to offer basic coach training workshops (these options eliminate the peer relationship component and focus solely on developing coaching skills.)

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

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

Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective

by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (77 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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The new Master Coach Series offers advanced skills training for aspiring coaches or those who are already certified. This disc includes input on several powerful perspective techniques, which are then demonstrated in extended, live coaching sessions. Sharpen your coaching skills by listening to a masterful coach at work!

One of the key things people want from a coach is perspective: on their challenges, dreams, rationales and decisions. This CD uses live coaching demos to help you become a master at helping others get perspective. You'll learn three powerful asking approaches that help people see things from new angles:

- The Proportion Technique helps a person see things in relation to the big picture of other values and priorities.
- The Objectivity Approach helps takes us beyond our own viewpoint to see things as they really are.
- The Viewpoint Technique lets you look at a situation from 11 different angles.

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Powerful Questions: Problem Solving

by Tony Stoltzfus
4 Audio Sessions (65 minutes) plus handouts in Enhanced CD format
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This great new CD shows you three powerful techniques for brainstorming and helping people develop creative solutions using the coaching approach. You'll learn how to take people to their ideal future to get around the limitations of the present, the obstacle approach to problem solving, and how to take brainstorming to the transformational level of values, beliefs and identity.

Each CD in the new Master Coach Series offers advanced coaching tools and techniques focused around one key area of coaching. The discs include a brief teaching on each technique, live coaching demos that show what it looks like in action, and handouts and worksheets you can print out to put those powerful questions right in your hands. Listening to a top coach at work is an easy, effective way to sharpen your coaching skills - and you can do it even while you're driving to work!

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Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries

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by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (77 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format

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The new Master Coach Series offers advanced skills training for aspiring coaches or those who are already certified. This disc includes input on several advanced techniques for coaching leaders toward a vision. Each skill is then demonstrated in extended, live coaching sessions, with leaders who dream about changing the world.

Visionaries often get stuck in the pursuit of their dreams when they come up against the limitations of their own strengths and weaknesses. You'll earn to coach them around these obstacles with three powerful asking approaches that remove these limitations:

- A Strengths Inventory helps the leader think through what they bring to the visionary task and where they need help.
- Crafting Your Ideal Role lets a visionary create a role that really fits and bring others into the areas they are made to do.
- Make or Break Factors assesses the visionary's readiness, and is a great technique for helping younger leaders move forward aggressively when the fulfillment of their dream is a ways off.

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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.

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Coaching Small Group Leaders

by Les Brickman
Audio Sessions (70 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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Learn the coaching approach to caring for small group leaders with this great new CD from international cell church consultant Les Brickman of Strategic Cell Ministries. Coaching isn't just a new buzzword for mentoring or discipling: it's a whole new discipline, with a set of skills and techniques all it's own. On this CD, Les shows you three key techniques used by small group and cell coaches: pastoral care, debriefing after cell visits, and troubleshooting. After some brief input on each area, the skill is demonstrated in extended, live coaching sessions, followed by debriefing times where we discuss the coaching techniques used. It's a great way to build your coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.

The new Coaching Essentials Series provides training in core skills for aspiring coaches or those who are already certified. They also include handouts, articles and bonus materials you can view on your computer. So take your coaching abilities to the next level with these new hands-on coaching CDs.

Peer Coach Training Workbook

Experience the Power of Authentic, Growth-Centered Relationships
by Tony Stoltzfus
80 pages
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The Peer Coaching Workbook gives each participant in peer coach training the resources they need to build a lasting, accountable, authentic peer relationship. Peer coaching is a growth-centered relationship between two or three peer partners who meet regularly to set personal growth goals, develop action steps, and provide the support and accountability needed for maximum progress. This Workbookincludes covenants, peer exercises, session outlines and more to build that relationship, plus a set of tools for helping others grow using the coaching approach.

This is not a program where you just sit and listen to a lecturer! In each of the eight weekly training sessions, participants listen to a brief teaching from the DVD Set, watch a demonstration of a coaching skill, debrief on what they observed, then do a peer exercise in breakouts where they put what they’ve learned into practice. Half way through the program, peers begin meeting on their own to set growth goals, develop their own action steps, and cheer each other on to growth. It’s a highly interactive, experiential process.

Your group leader will need a Facilitator’s Package to offer the course. An Independent Study version is also available that allows two individuals to build a peer coaching relationship on their own.Click Here for more resources from this author.

Presenter's Package: Getting Started in Leadership Coaching, Version 2.0
Price: $49.95 - $4.95 On Sale!
by Tony Stoltzfus
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A Turn-key Coaching Course You Can Offer for Under $5!

We've made it a snap for you to offer this course. The presenter's package includes a complete Facilitator's guide with in-depth outlines for each session, course schedules, a participant's packet, an orientation outline, tips for running and promotion the course -- even a color promotional e-flyer you can modify with your course name and dates.

To offer the course, simply purchase the presenter's pack here, and you'll recieve a code by e-mail that lets you download the outlines, presenter info and other course materials. You'll also get a license to purchase the books and CDs needed for the course at a special 30% discount.

If you'd like more information on offering Getting Started in Leadership Coaching, e-mail Tony Stoltzfus at Tony@CoachingPastors.com.