The Small Group Coach's Library

Coaching Life Changing Small Group Leaders

This book from Willow Creek 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

Think of this offering as a practical application guide for how to apply the asking techniques in coaching to walking with small group leaders. You'll appreciate the tools, examples and practical hints this book has to offer, especially if you function in a Willow Creek-style "church of small groups"

A Pocket Guide to Coaching Small Groups

Look Inside! Read the introduction for free!

In this quick read Randall Neighbour of Touch Outreach Ministries 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.

Leadership Coaching

Look Inside! Read the first chapter for free!

Leadership Coaching is the best how-to-coach book available for small group coaches. 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. An invaluable facet of this book is that it separates out coaching, mentoring and supervision and focuses exclusively on the skill of coaching.

Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God. 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.

Coaching Small Group Leaders

Learn the coaching approach to caring for small group leaders with this great new CD from cell church consultant Les Brickman of Strategic Cell Ministries. On this CD, Les shows you three key techniques used by small group coaches: pastoral care, debriefing after small group visits, and troubleshooting small group problems. 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.

How to Ask Great Questions

This short, practical volume offers a lot of useful tips and techniques for constructing excellent questions. It is targeted at small group discussion leaders, and covers some of the bread and butter coaching techniques: 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 (as well asl any small group leader) could benefit from having this volume handy.