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Coach22 offers great coaching materials specifically designed for coaching and training small group, cell group or house church coaches.
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Authentic Coaching Relationships
by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (50 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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In this audio CD, recorded at a large small groups conference, coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus shows you how to build authentic relationships with those you coach (and with everyone else you meet!) Starting with the idea that an authentic relationship is only one conversation away, Tony shows how to use stories to catalyze an authentic atmosphere quickly. The disc covers the two fundamental paradigms of authenticity, four principles of authentic story-telling, different types of life stories (including the story of your identity), authenticity exercises and more. It's a great way to build coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.
The new Coaching Essentials Series CDs provide training in core skills for aspiring or practicing coaches, on enhanced CD format that includes handouts and articles as well as audio.
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The Small Group Coach's Library
Price: $65.93 - $56.99
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The five top-rated titles we most recommend for small group coaches, bundled together at a discount price!
The Small Group Coach's Library includes these must-have resources:
* Coaching Life Changing Small Group Leaders
* The Pocket Guide to Coaching Small Groups
* Leadership Coaching
* Coaching Small Group Leaders (Audio CD)
* How to Ask Great Questions
This new coaching bundle from Coach22 provides the key resources you need to get started or build your skills as a small group coach. Coaching Life Changing Small Group Leaders from Willow Creek provides invaluable tips on setting up your coaching system and applying coaching skills to the unique small group coaching arena. Leadership Coaching is the best how-to-coach guide available, with a wealth of tools and techniques as well as a picture of the values behind coaching. The Coaching Small Group Leaders audio CD lets you listen in as an international cell church consultant coaches his small group leaders, while The Pocket Guide to Coaching Small Groups foucses on how to build strong, effective relationships with the leaders you're coaching. Finally, How to Ask Great Questions is a wonderful resource for honing your asking skills as well as training small group leaders in discussion-leading and facilitation skills.
These five essential titles will get you off and running as a small group coach!
If you are coaching in a cell church or want to look at a slightly different package, check out The Cell Group Coach's Library.
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A Pocket Guide to Coaching Small Groups
by Randall Neighbour
95 pages
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What your leaders need most is a friend... a friend who will support them in ministry and help their group achieve its goals. Without this kind of highly relational support, a small group ministry won’t grow and birth new groups.
In this quick read Randall Neighbour, a leader in the cell church movement, illustrates how to build effective relationships between small group leaders and their coaches. This pocket guide provides excellent tips for time management, preventing burnout, investing in leaders for maximum impact, and the role of the coach in developing new leaders. If your coaches embrace the simple principles found in this book, they will become the kind of coach that makes small group ministry a life-changing experience for everyone involved.
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Coaching Small Group Leaders
by Les Brickman
Audio Sessions (70 minutes) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format
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Learn the coaching approach to caring for small group leaders with this great new CD from international cell church consultant Les Brickman of Strategic Cell Ministries. Coaching isn't just a new buzzword for mentoring or discipling: it's a whole new discipline, with a set of skills and techniques all it's own. On this CD, Les shows you three key techniques used by small group and cell coaches: pastoral care, debriefing after cell visits, and troubleshooting. After some brief input on each area, the skill is demonstrated in extended, live coaching sessions, followed by debriefing times where we discuss the coaching techniques used. It's a great way to build your coaching skills during your "drive time" in the car.
The new Coaching Essentials Series provides training in core skills for aspiring coaches or those who are already certified. They also include handouts, articles and bonus materials you can view on your computer. So take your coaching abilities to the next level with these new hands-on coaching CDs.
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Peer Coaching Small Group Package
Price: $199.00
by Tony Stoltzfus
Everything you need to take your small group through Peer Coaching Training!
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Build authenticity and provide a concrete growth strategy for your small group with this special peer coaching bundle. This Small Group Package includes everything yo need to offer Peer Coach Training in your small group or team. The package includes:
Each of the 9 course sessions features a short teaching segment plus a demonstration of a coaching skill from the DVD, a debriefing time led by the facilitator, and an application exercise where group members practice that week’s coaching skill with a peer. By the end of the course, everyone in yoru group will be meeting regularly with a peer partner to support and encourage each other in their Christian growth.
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How to Ask Great Questions
Price: $7.00
by Karen Lee Thorp
71 pages
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This short, practical volume offers a wealth of useful tips and techniques for constructing excellent questions. While not a coaching book per se (it is targeted at small group discussion leaders), it covers quite a few of the bread and butter asking techniques coaches use: open and closed questions, probing questions, asking about what's significant, and bringing out people's inner thoughts and true feelings.
The best feature of the book is that it includes example after example of well-designed questions created for specific scenarios or situations. Any coach (and especially beginners) could benefit from having this volume handy.
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How to Be a Great Cell Group Coach
Price: $12.99
by Joel Comiskey
140 pages
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Research has found that the greatest contributor to cell group success is the quality of the coaching provided for cell group leaders. If you are interested in using your coaching skills with the Cell Group or Small Group leaders in your church, How to Be a Great Cell Group Coach is an excellent guide. The book walks you through the kinds of issues cell leaders face and provides many proven principles of small group life in a practical and easy-to-apply format.
Be aware that the word "coach" is defined much more loosely in the Cell/Small Group coaching world than in professional coaching, so you'll see mentoring, discipling and supervision practices interspersed with coaching. So use a resource like Leadership Coaching (or better yet, go through a formal coach training program) to learn to coach, and use this book as a guide for implementing a coaching approach in your cell group or small group system.
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Leadership Coaching
The Disciplines, Skills and Heart of a Christian Coach
by Tony Stoltzfus
320 pages
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Leadership Coaching is quite simiply the best how-to book available for anyone who wants to become a Christian coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life.
Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, this book goes beyond proof-texting to present an integrated, values-based paradigm for leadership coaching.
Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life. Leadership Coaching is a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow.
To get even more out of this great book, purchase the companion CD set, Leadership Coaching Live!
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The Cell Group Coach's Library
Price: $60.88 - $51.76
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Four outstanding titles we recommend for cell group coaches, bundled together at a great price!
The Cell Group Coach's Library includes the following top-flight books and CDs:
* How to Be a Great Cell Group Coach
* Leadership Coaching
* Coaching Small Group Leaders (Audio CD)
* Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective (Audio CD)
Get four excellent resources for coaching cell leaders at super price! How to Be a Great Cell Group Coach by Joel Comiskey covers the nuts and bolts of setting up a cell coaching system and applying coaching techniques to working with cell leaders. Leadership Coaching is a great, practical guide to the ins and outs of how to coach, featuring a wealth of tools and techniques grounded in a thorough treatment of the values behind coaching. The Coaching Small Group Leaders audio CD lets you listen in as an international cell church consultant coaches his cell leaders, while Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective lets you listen to a masterful coach demonstrate multiple ways to change the point of view in a conversation to get people unstuck and start them moving forward.
These four essential resources are a perfect way to get started as a cell group coach!
If you are coaching small group leaders or want to look at a slightly different package, check out The Small Group Coach's Library.
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Peer Coaching Facilitator's Package
by Tony Stoltzfus
Books, DVDs and Promotional Materials
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Peer Coach Training can help you build lasting, accountable peer relationships in your church, small group or team. Or, it can be the perfect way to bring basic skills training to your coaches. This Facilitator's Package includes everything a leader needs to offer Peer Coach Training in his or her group. The package includes:
- The Peer Coaching Facilitator’s Guide is the leader’s handbook for offering the course. It includes checklists and promotional materials for launching the course, as well as a plethora of follow-up materials. The guide makes it easy to offer the training. (Click here to see a sample session outline).
- The book Leadership Coaching provides a wealth of background information on the coaching concepts presented in the training. Each debriefing question is keyed to the exact pages in the book where that concept is discussed. Click here to read a sample chapter.
- The Peer Coaching DVD Set includes 25 teaching and coaching demonstration segments on two discs. You’ll watch actual peer coaching demonstrations, discuss them, and then try the techniques out on your own peer partner.
- A copy of the Peer Coaching Workbook includes handouts for the teachings and demos, peer exercises, debriefing questions, and other resources for developing the peer relationships. (Click here to view a sample).
- Ten Peer Coaching Brochures are also provided for recruiting people for the training. Click here to see the matching e-brochure.
The course includes an orientation plus eight 60- to 75-minute group sessions. A typical session features a short teaching segment plus a demonstration of a coaching skill from the DVD, a debriefing time led by the facilitator, and an application exercise where peers practice that week’s coaching skill on each other. Several delivery formats are provided to fit your calendar, including two schedules for using the materials to offer basic coach training workshops (these options eliminate the peer relationship component and focus solely on developing coaching skills.)
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Coaching Life-Changing Small Group Leaders
Price: $17.99
A Practical Guide for Those Who Lead and Shepherd Small Group Leaders
by Bill Donahue and Greg Bowman
135 pages
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Small group leaders often feel the weight of shepherding their members. But who shepherds the shepherd? And what are the best ways to provide that support and guidance? These are the questions answered in Coaching Life-Changing Small Group Leaders.
This book from Willow Creek presents the mixed coaching/mentoring/shepherding model commonly seen in the small group world. It provides helpful info for lay coaches on topics like:
- Modeling a surrendered life to those you shepherd
- Gaining the tools and wisdom you need for coaching
- Helping leaders grow spiritually
- Nurturing the spiritual development of leaders
While not a book that will teach you to coach (a better choice for that is Leadership Coaching), think of this offering as a practical application guide for how to apply the asking techniques in coaching to walking with small group leaders. If you function in a Willow Creek-style "church of small groups" you'll appreciate the tools, examples and practical hints this book has to offer.
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The Master Plan of Evangelism
Price: $5.99
by Roert E. Coleman
140 pages
The Master Plan of Evangelism is a classic work (over 2 million copies sold) on how Jesus recruited, trained and unleashed his disciples to further his master plan for bringing in the Kingdom. Pair it with the new Life-on-Life Leadership coaching manual to use Coleman's principles for making disciples or coaching small group leaders in your church! Coleman identifies eight key principles Jesus used (Selection, Association, Consecration, Impartation, Demonstration, Delegation, Supervision and Reproduction) to build leaders who would carry on his work.
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New! Life-on-Life Leadership
A Manual for Coaching Discipling Leaders
by Cheryl Baker and Tony Stoltzfus
120 pages, tabbed, with inside pockets
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Eight Principles of Life on Life Leadership is a practical handbook for coaching discipleship group leaders. The manual takes the eight timeless principles in the classic book, The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman, and uses nearly 100 coaching tools and exercises to help leaders apply them to small group life.
This coach's manual provides a step by step approach to coaching group leaders toward greater effectiveness. The process starts with an the leader and coach doing an assessment of group life based on Coleman's eight principles of discipleship (which cover selecting, training and reproducing leaders). The group leader chooses what to focus on and creates a growth goal in that area. Then the tools and coaching exercises in the manual are used to help move things forward. Click Here for more products from this author.
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