The Heart of Coaching
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by Thomas Crane
225 pages
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Yesterday’s management skills do not guarantee success in today’s or tomorrow’s organizations. To create a sustainable, competitive advantage for your organization, you need a team-based, feedback-rich, high-performance culture that relies on coaching as the universal, connective practice.

The Heart of Coaching introduces "Transformational Coaching" as a fundamentally different way of approaching the process of leading others to enhance their performance. It creates egalitarian, mutually supportive, high-trust partnerships between people that transcend the traditional boss/subordinate roles. Shifting your mindset from "The Boss" to "The Coach" is essential for this transformation. This book is a clear guide for accomplishing that shift.

Transformational Coaching is the requisite skill for today’s leaders, managers, and supervisors who choose to enhance their personal effectiveness and the performance of those they lead.

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.

Powerful Questions: Changing Perspective

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 powerful perspective techniques, which are then demonstrated in extended, live coaching sessions. Sharpen your coaching skills by listening to a masterful coach at work!

One of the key things people want from a coach is perspective: on their challenges, dreams, rationales and decisions. This CD uses live coaching demos to help you become a master at helping others get perspective. You'll learn three powerful asking approaches that help people see things from new angles:

- The Proportion Technique helps a person see things in relation to the big picture of other values and priorities.
- The Objectivity Approach helps takes us beyond our own viewpoint to see things as they really are.
- The Viewpoint Technique lets you look at a situation from 11 different angles.

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The Making of a Leader
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by J. Robert Clinton
272 pages
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In this classic book on the stages of leadership development, Clinton helps you understand what God is doing in the transitional seasons of your life. If you are in the middle of a career change, a significant move, or sense a coming change of seasons in your life, this wonderful handbook will help you and your coach maximize God's work in you in the midst of change. It's definitely a book that should be in every leader's library.

In The Making of a Leader, Dr. Robert Clinton identifies the key patterns God uses to develop a leader over a life. Through studying the lives of hundreds of historical, biblical, and contemporary leaders, Dr.Clinton has identified the six stages of leadership development, and documented the processes and types of events God uses to develop the leader in each season of life. Transitional seasons between stages are treated in depth, as these waypoints are key indicators of where a leader is in his or her development.

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.