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Coach22's Recommended Books and Resources

Below are the top coaching resources we most often recommend for professional coaches, ministry leaders or for coaching in church settings. Click here to learn what our reviewers look for in our Star Rating System.

How-to-Coach Books for those who want to learn coaching skills:
  Leadership Coaching: The most practical and thorough Christian coaching how-to.
     Coaching for Performance: A clear, accessible intro from a business perspective.
     Coaching for Christian Leaders : An intro to coaching from a top business coach.


Listening to Coach Training Audio CDs is a great way to build coaching proficiency:
    Leadership Coaching Live: Extensive live demos of basic coaching concepts.
    Coaching Transitions: Advanced coaching techniques for engaging God in transition.
    The Master Coach Series CDs: Live demos of specific advanced asking skills.

An Introduction to Coaching for those who are unfamiliar with it:
    Christ-Centered Coaching: Focuses on coaching's benefits for ministry leaders.
     Coaching for Christian Leaders : An intro to coaching from a top business coach.
     A Crash Course in Christian Coaching: DVD on coaching history & principles.

To learn to ask powerful Coaching Questions and perfect your asking skills:
    Coaching Questions: Dozens of asking tools, models, exercises and examples.
    The Master Coach Series CDs: Live demos of advanced asking skills on 3 discs.
    How to Ask Great Questions: Excellent examples of question construction.

Our top Life Coaching resources:
    Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Great tools from a life coach trainer.
    Becoming a Coaching Leader : Using life coaching tools in the business world.

    Blueprint for Life: A life planning tool you can offer as a class in your church.

Business Coaching resources for working with executives, managers and entrepreneurs:
    Coaching for Performance: Practical, great treatment of GROW model.
     Becoming a Coaching Leader : A guide to coaching within a business organization.

     Co-Active Coaching: Thorough and filled with usefyul information and examples.

General skill development resources for coaches:
    The Master Coach Series CDs: Live demos of advanced asking techniques.
    The Coaching Starter Kit: A plethora of forms, handouts & more you can adapt.
    The Path: An excellent process for helping clients discover their life mission.

Training resources for Small group, cell group or house church coaching:
    Leadership Coaching: Recommended by Touch USA as top how-to-coach book.
    A Pocket Guide to Coaching Small Groups: Building the coaching relationship.
    Coaching Small Group Leaders: Live demos of small group coaching skills.

Course materials for offering Coach Training in your organization:
    Peer Coach Training : Turnkey, DVD-based coach training class you can offer.
    Getting Started in Leadership Coaching: A turn-key intro course you can offer.
    Blueprint for Life: A great package for offering a life purpose coaching class

Build a coaching practice:
    The Business and Practice of Coaching: The one book to start your practice.
    Get Clients Now! A great sales book for coaches. Practical and applicable.
    Web Coaching Solutions Web Sites: An affordable, professional site in no time!


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Who's Behind Coach22?

If you are going to take our recommendations, maybe you should know a little bit about your reviewers! I'm Tony Stoltzfus (click for my full bio). I've been a professional coach since 1999, and a mentor for many years before that. I helped found a large, international Christian coach training school, ran it as Director of Training for 5 years, and wrote a total of 6 semester-length coach training courses. I have several thousand coaching hours. Since I know a lot of other professional coaches, I've brought ones I trust in to help me review everything we carry.

What Does Coach22 Mean?

People often ask me what the meaning of "Coach22" is. There's no big secret—its just a catchy name. Short, memorable domain names are hard to come by!

If you really want a hidden meaning, "Coach22" reminds you of "Catch22", an well-known book by Joseph Heller. The rough idea behind catch22 in the book was, if you don't think about your future, you are insane. I think that's a good coaching ideal.