Co-active Coaching (3rd edition)
Price: $39.95
by Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kinsey-House and Richard Sandahl
265 pages

Never before has there been such demand for personal and executive coaches to support others through periods of transition. 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 in the leadership 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 on-line "coach's toolkit" provides 35 instructive coaching dialogues and examples, skill-building exercises to develop co-active coaching techniques, coaching tips, worksheets, and forms to use with clients.

Becoming a Coaching Leader
Price: $19.95
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.

The Business and Practice of Coaching
Price: $33.95
Finding Your Niche, Making Money, and Attracting Ideal Clients
by Lynn Grodzki & Wendy Allen
300 pages, hardcover
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If you want one book to show you the ropes on how to start a coaching practice, choose this one! Lynn Grodzki and Wendy Allen are veteran business coaches who understand how to strategically approach the business and the practice of coaching as well as how to mentor new coaches entering the profession. The Business and Practice of Coaching is the first text to combine a coaching approach (step-by-step exercises, direct suggestions, insider's tips, and motivational plans) with solid business information and ideas in order to give you exactly what you need to prosper as a coach.

The Business and Practice of Coaching is based on real research about what helps coaches succeed in business. It's solid, helpful information on everything from basic entrepreneurship to creating a business plan, setting up your company, identifying your niche and attracting the right kind of clients.

Tales From The Top
Price: $13.99
By Graham Alexander
240 pages
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How do top business leaders become more effective? Executive coach, confidant to CEO's and catalyst for change Graham Alexander's approach is to ask the right questions to help leaders find the right answers.

In Tales from the Top, Alexander demonstrates how honest answers to effective questions propel leaders to break down barriers preventing them from operating at their highest levels of capability. After receiving his coaching, leaders:

• Typically report a time savings of 20%-40% and estimate the improvement in their businesses has reflected 10 to 100 times the cost of coaching
• Feel less overwhelmed and more in control
• Become laser-sharp about priorities and more focused at work and at home

The Business Coaching Toolkit
Price: $44.99
Top 10 Strategies for Solving the Toughest Dilemmas Facing Organizations
by Stephen Fairley and Bill Zipp
230 pages, hardback
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Equipping coaches to stay on the cutting-edge of their craft, The Business Coaching Toolkit expertly provides a collection of application-based, proven tools that present creative solutions to the challenges of today's workplace. You’ll discover ten of the best coaching practices for solving business and leadership problems with clients—right away.
This hands-on guide offers tools for:

• Assessing the five life tasks every individual longs to complete
• Discovering the deeper meaning of vision and tie goals into the client's core values
• Building core skills in delegation, feedback, and affirmation.
• Guiding clients through a comprehensive analysis of their current situation

The Business Coaching Toolkit presents a valuable supply of straightforward exercises designed to bring a new dimension to every professional coach's practice.

The Heart of Coaching
Price: $22.95
by Thomas Crane
225 pages
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To create a sustainable, competitive advantage for your organization, you need a team-based, feedback-rich, high-performance culture that relies on transformational coaching as the universal, connective practice.

The Heart of Coaching introduces Transformational Coaching as a fundamentally different way of approaching the process of leading others to enhance their performance. It creates egalitarian, mutually supportive, high-trust partnerships between people that transcend the traditional boss/subordinate roles. Shifting your mindset from "The Boss" to "The Coach" is essential for this coaching transformation. This book is a clear guide for accomplishing that shift.

Transformational Coaching is the requisite skill for today’s leaders, managers, and supervisors who choose to enhance their personal effectiveness and the performance of those they lead.

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.

The Dream Manager
Price: $19.95
By Matthew Kelly
Hardcover, 158 pages
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In the style of Patrick Lencioni's leadership fables, Kelly explains how taking an interest in peoples' dreams is good business. The Dream Manager is about a company that hires coaches to help deal with high turnover--by creating a "Dream Manager" position to help employees find and follow their dreams. It's a great example of how coaching can be used at an organizational level instead of just with a few individuals. It's a great introduction to coaching for managers and business leaders, and an inspiring read for coaches who want to build a coaching culture in organizations.

Coaching for Performance, 4th Edition
Price: $24.95
by John Whitmore
4th Edition, 232 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

The Power of Purpose
Price: $13.95
by Peter S Temes
304 pages
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In this book about on-purpose living and fulfillment, Peter S. Temes draws on great thinkers from Augustine and Aristotle to Emerson and Mother Teresa to build the case that lasting fulfillment comes from serving others, not self. If you are looking for an erudite book on purpose that goes beyond shallow self-help and personal fulfillment, this volume is a great choice for reorienting business or life coaching clients. Temes treats themes like the choosing when to change the world and when to adapt to it, the competitive advantage of building a business on serving others, ambition vs. greed, and much more.