Becoming a Professional Life Coach
Price: $39.99
by Patrick Williams and Diane Menendez
349 pages, hardcover
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This excellent read by Pat Williams, a leader in the life coaching movement, provides lots 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 that life coach training program in a content-rich form that emphasizes tools, reasearch 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.

Blueprint for Life

Discovering the Life You Were Born to Live
by Michael Kendrick and Ben Ortlip
Multimedia Package: 160 pg Manual, 5 Audio CDs, Wall Chart, Gift Assessment and Leader's Guide
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Blueprint for Life is an excellent tool for helping groups or individuals clarify their life purpose and set goals to walk it out. This 8-week coached or self-study course includes a well-thought-out set of life purpose exercises, 5 audio CDs by well-known speakers like Andy Stanley and Bruce Wilkinson, and various self-discovery tools like a gifting assessment, life purpose journal and goals wall chart. The overall quality of the materials and packaging is superb, and it's an incredible bargain, too.

The Blueprint is a perfect follow up course for a church that has done a 40 Days of Purpose program -- it helps you discover your unique, individual destiny. It also provides great materials for one-on-one life purpose coaching. If you've been through a coaching certification program, you probably already have most of these tools -- the difference is that these are packaged in a way that makes it easy to promote life purpose coaching. A great addition to any coach's toolkit.

The Life Coaching Library
Price: $117.83 - $99.99 On Sale!
The Life Coaching Library is a great set of tools for life coaches. It includes five of our top-rated resources: Becoming a Professional Life Coach, The Path, Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries, Blueprint for Life, and Asking to Win.

• Becoming a Professional Life Coach is our top-rated book for learning the process of coaching life purpose issues.
• The Path by Laurie Beth Jones provides a simple, effective method for creating mission and value statements with a client.
• Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries provides an hour of live coaching demos on how to help others pursue their dreams.
• Blueprint for Life is an all-in-one set of life purpose CDs and exercises you can use for classes or one-on-ones with your clients.
• Asking to Win is a pocket asking guide by Bobb Biehl, a leader famous for changing your life with only a few questions.

This bundle is a great set of life coaching tools. So get The Life Coaching Library, and start life coaching today! Click Here to see more discount coaching bundles from Coach22.

The Path
Price: $13.95
Creating Your Mission Statement for Life and Work
by Laurie Beth Jones
249 pages
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In a world in which we are forced to make daily decisions that lead us either closer to or further from our goals, no tool is as valuable in providing direction as a mission statement -- a brief, succinct, and focused statement of purpose that can be used to evaluate and refine all our activities.

The Path provides inspiring and practical advice to lead you through every step of defining and fulfilling your mission. With more than ten years' experience in assisting groups and individuals, Jones offers clear, step-by-step guidance that help you create a mission statement in a matter of hours rather than a month or years.

Rich with humor, exercises, and case histories, The Path is essential listening for anyone seeking a lighter, clearer way in the world.

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 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.

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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Discover Your God-Given Gifts
Price: $16.99
by Don & Katie Fortune
278 pages
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Discover Your God-Given Gifts is a comprehensive look at the motivational gifts (from Romans 12) that God has built into every individual. Based on 25 years of pioneering research by Don & Katie Fortune, this book is a great asset for coaches and anyone else who wants to a bilbical framework for understanding human personality differences. Now in it's 27th printing, this book includes an in-depth look at 20 characteristics of each of the seven motivational gifts, plus areas for growth of each gift and an overview of different types of gifts in scripture.

The book includes assessment for discovering a person's gifts and providing basic information on each gift. The Gifts at a Glance Audio CD isa great compliment to the book, providing a short introduction to the characteristics of each one of the seven gifts on one handy CD.

The Dreamgiver
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by Bruce Wilkinson
160 pages, hardback
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Bruce Wilkinson, author of the bestselling Prayer of Jabez and creator of the Dreamgiver coaching network, shows how to identify and overcome the obstacles that keep us from living the lives we were created for. This engaging story is a great way to encourage a client who is rising to the challenge of discovering and pursuing their own destiny.

This allegorical modern-day parable follows the story of Ordinary, who dares to leave the Land of Familiar to pursue his Big Dream. With the help of the Dream Giver, Ordinary begins the hardest and most rewarding journey of his life. Wilkinson gives readers practical, biblical keys to fulfilling their own dream, revealing what God can accomplish when we choose to pursue the dreams He gives us for His honor.

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.

Becoming a Coaching Leader
Price: $19.95
by Daniel Harkavay
210 pages, hardback
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This must-read business coaching book by 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 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 the tools are available on-line so you can use them, too. This book is a great tool for anyone who coaches managers, executives or entrepreneurs.