The Heart of Coaching -- transformational business coaching

The Heart of Coaching

by Tom Crane

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In The Heart of Coaching (second edition) Thomas Crane introduces a transformational coaching approach to creating coaching relationships and organizing and conducting coaching conversations that simultaneously build trust and improve working relationships. Thousands of people have attended workshops and read this book to learn this approach to having a “coachee-centered” conversation.

This book is a guide on how to use the transformational coaching model as a framework to guide the conversation –- the coach and coachee add the content. When this approach becomes the common method for coaching across an entire culture, achieving sustainable results becomes easier.

What People are Saying about the Heart of Coaching...
"I own no less than 30 books on coaching and giving performance feedback, and this is the best yet. I say this for three reasons. It is structured around an easy-to-understand model. It is detailed enough to be genuinely useful without being overwhelming. And lastly, it advocates a strong philosophy of genuine caring that is essential to effective coaching. You can bury people in skills training, but they won't do it in the real world unless they have beliefs and values that support this difficult set of management skills. Coaching is easy to talk about, hard to do. This book makes it clear what to do and also encourages the reader to actually do it."

Laura Page

"The concept of Boss as Coach is a compelling one, and Transformational Coaching will define leadership in the 21st Century. Tom Crane provides a mechanism for individual and organizational change that will add enormous value to people and their organizations."

Eric Mokover, Asst. Dean and Director, MBA Program, The Anderson School of Management, UCLA

About Thomas Crane

Tom Crane is an author, consultant, and speaker who specializes in assisting leaders in creating high-performance through the development of transformational coaching cultures. He works with all levels of leaders and their teams to embrace coaching as a primary method of communication designed to enhance both individual and team effectiveness in achieving performance objectives.

Tom’s passion (and book, The Heart of Coaching) focuses on changing a leader's mindset from “the BOSS OF people” to the mindset of "the COACH FOR people." The premise of the book is that a performance-based, “feedback-rich” transformational coaching culture will more effectively support an organization's business strategy, and lead to higher and more sustainable levels of performance.