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.
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).
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The Coward's Guide to Conflict Price: $16.95 Empowering Solutions for Those Who Would Rather Run Than Fight
by Tim Ursiny, Ph.D. 282 pages
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As a coach, you'll be called on often to help your clients sort through and effectively face their conflicts at work and at home. This down-to-earth book, written from a coaching perspective, provides practical tools and language for dealing with conflict in a healthy way.
Learn how to deal with conflict with skill and confidence with the help of coach, author and psychologist Tim Ursiny. You'll learn to identify your own conflict style (as well as the style of your coaching clients), motivate yourself to face conflict, and learn tools strategies to succeed in these difficult conversations. Tim also teaches you how to avoid the top 10 mistakes made when dealing with upset people.
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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The Master Coach Series is a great way for practicing coaches to improve their asking skills. It includes Coaching Visionaries, Problem-Solving the Coaching Way, and Changing Perspective. Each disc in this practical series includes input on several advanced techniques, live demos of that skill by a master coach, and debriefings to help you tune in to exactly how it is done. These CDs even include bonus handouts of powerful questions and transcripts of the coaching conversations to make these tools more accessible to you as you coach.
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.
Why should ministry leaders take a serious look at coaching? Author Jane Creswell, a well-known Christian coach with extensive experience coaching in corporate America, answers that question with a look at seven important benefits of Christ-centered coaching.
With examples, sample dialogs, and scripture, Jane lays out what the Christian coaching approach can do. If you are brand new to coaching or want to introduce coaching to a ministry leader who is unfamiliar with the discipline, this book is a great choice.
