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.

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 consultant on life- and business planning, 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 resource for coaches who are looking to improve their asking skills or find examples of life-changing questions.

Coaching for Performance
Price: $19.95
by John Whitmore
180 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

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.

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.

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Leadership Coaching Live! CD Set
Price: $39.99
by Tony Stoltzfus
Eight interactive sessions (4 hours) on 4 CDs
A companion to the book, Leadership Coaching

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Leadership Coaching Live gives you the chance to experience what coaching can do by watching a master coach at work. A perfect companion to the book, Leadership Coaching, this eight-session set was recorded live, and includes demos of key coaching skills, live coaching appointments, insightful debriefings and teaching sessions by a top Christian coach trainer. The book and CDs together are a perfect teaching tool to introduce others to the world of coaching, especially using the FREE course outlines (choose the second item below to get the outlines).

“I have a discipling relationship I’ve had for years. We’ve made more progress in the last few months using some of your questions than we have in five years.” -- Senior Pastor

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.)

Stop Parenting and Start Coaching
Price: $16.95
by Carol Carter, Gary Izumo and Joe Martin
100 pages
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Raising a teenager isn’t easy. Helping your child grow and change from someone dependent on your direction and care into an independent, self-sufficient young adult requires major changes in parenting strategy. Stop Parenting and Start Coaching can help you make the change from a telling parent to a coach -- a change that often allows both you and your teen to start enjoying your relationship again. The practical, easy-to-read story format introduces you to some of the tools and techniques of the coaching approach to parenting teens. Stop Parenting and Start Coaching can help you:

• See yourself through your teen’s eyes
• Understand what teenagers are going through
• Improve communication with coaching techniques like listening and asking
• Champion your child’s gifts, dreams and goals while increasing his or her motivation to succeed
  

The Master Coach Series
Price: $41.85
by Tony Stoltzfus
Audio Sessions (60+ min on each CD) plus handouts and transcriptions in Enhanced CD format

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Listening to a great coach at work in the Master Coach Series is an easy way to sharpen your coaching skills even during your drive time.

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