Laura Whitworth et al’s Co-Active Coaching

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Let me get my little gripe on this one out of the way right at the start. The emphasis on co-active coaching appears somewhat unnecessary and artificial, as I can’t see any fundamental differences between this and what I’ve learned so far about coaching in its unadorned and unqualified state. I don’t disagree with the […]
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Jenny Rogers, Coaching Skills – Review

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This is a practical and generally very encouraging guide to coaching. It provides specific tips, even down to lists of tried and tested questions to ask clients and lots of discussions of what actually happens in a coaching session. Well-integrated case studies bring the advice to life. Liz GoosterI like to describe myself as happily […]
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John Whitmore’s Coaching for Performance

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Clearly-written in a positive but not gushing style, this book has a well-deserved classic status and advocates a no-nonsense approach that has been proven to work Whitmore’s book is one of the cornerstones of the coaching literature and it’s easy to see why. A former professional racing driver, back in the early 1990s when coaching […]
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