Values Driven Leadership
Price: $17.99
by Aubrey Malphurs
Second edition
184 pages
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This book is a pioneering work designed to help church and parachurch leaders understand how to develop a set of core values. Every ministry organization has a set of core values (with you are aware of them or not!) that guides what the ministry seeks to accomplish. This book promotes the importance of core values, and provides tools and exercises needed to create concrete action steps for identifying and spelling out one's core values.. Includes questions after each chapter, sample credos, two core value audits, and a readiness-for-change inventory.

The Making of a Leader
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by J. Robert Clinton
272 pages
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In this classic book on the stages of leadership development, Clinton helps you understand what God is doing in the transitional seasons of your life. If you are in the middle of a career change, a significant move, or sense a coming change of seasons in your life, this wonderful handbook will help you and your coach maximize God's work in you in the midst of change. It's definitely a book that should be in every leader's library.

In The Making of a Leader, Dr. Robert Clinton identifies the key patterns God uses to develop a leader over a life. Through studying the lives of hundreds of historical, biblical, and contemporary leaders, Dr.Clinton has identified the six stages of leadership development, and documented the processes and types of events God uses to develop the leader in each season of life. Transitional seasons between stages are treated in depth, as these waypoints are key indicators of where a leader is in his or her development.

The Calling Journey

by Tony Stoltzfus
188 pages
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The Calling Journey fills a vital need for coaches by mapping out the progression of stages and transitions God moves us through on the road to our call. This path includes predictable mountains to scale and painful, disorienting valleys all leaders must navigate to fulfill their destiny. Each stage has a unique growth agenda, and Tony shows how to coach each stage differently to line up with what God is doing in that season.

Filled with examples from the lives of biblical and contemporary leaders and overflowing with insight on how God works through our circumstances, The Calling Journey will provide a powerful perspective on your own journey and a great set of tools to work with those you coach.

Becoming a Coaching Leader
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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.

Asking Profound Questions (formerly "Asking to Win")

by Bob Biehl
31 pages
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A great question can transform your life. In this compact, high-impact booklet, Bobb Biehl, a well-known speaker and life- and business planning consultant, has captured over 100 jewels from his own experience of asking profound questions. The booklet also contains samples of several planning tools and rules of thumb for asking, planning and deciding.

Bob Biehl's questions run the gamut from career change to brainstorming to organizing to problem solving. It's a great pocket resource for Christian coaches seeking to improve their asking skills or find examples of life-changing questions.

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.

Type Talk
Price: $17.00
The 16 Personalities that Determine How We Live, Love and Work
by Otto Kroeger and Janet Thuesen
290 pages
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Type Talk shows you how to determine your personality type through the scientifically validated Myers-Briggs type system. Based on pscyhological research by C.G. Jung, Myers-Briggs is a rich personality system that is very useful to coach and client alike. This book is an easy-to-read look at why you think and act the way you do--and why others think differently! It includes profiles of all 16 MBTI types, stories and examples of how your type influences parenting, relationships and more, and walks you through determining your own type.

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.

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

DISC Assessment and Report
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The Extended DISC® Assessment from Coach22 is a great tool as well as a great bargain. You take a scientifically-validated on-line assessment, from which you will receive a personalized 25-page report on your DISC type. The report tells you what motivates your type, what energizes and de-energizes you, what kind of work environment you flourish in, and much more. Interpretation instructions and action items are also included to help you make the most of what you learn about your personality type. If you want to become more self-aware about your innate Design, this DISC tool does the trick.

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.