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Discover the power of coaching: books for trainees and practitioners
Coaching is a dynamic, supportive process that fosters growth through personalised guidance and skill development. Whether you're exploring coaching as a career or looking to sharpen your expertise, we've gathered expert insights from our top textbooks to help you decide if coaching is the right path for you, begin your training with confidence and advance your skills to become a successful coach.
Developing your coaching skills: 5 free chapters from market-leading books to take you further
Read chapter: What is coaching?
From How to Coach: First Steps and Beyond by Bob Thomson
An essential guide for anyone starting in coaching or for existing coaches seeking to develop their craft. This practical introduction is packed with case studies showing theory in action, showing how to apply theory to practice in a variety of settings.
Read chapter: Becoming a coach
From An Introduction to Coaching Skills by Christian Van Nieuwerbugh
This bestselling book introduces you step by step to the key skills needed to become a successful coach. Supported by over 70 videos of coaching in action, it's a practical, invaluable resource for novices and trainee coaches.
"Finally, a text that encapsulates theory, application, ethics, supervision, anecdotal examples, visual demonstrations and concepts such as "the way of being" that are often intangible." - Dr Suzanne Vidler, School of Psychology, Faculty of Health, Deakin University
Read chapter: Psychological Development in Adulthood and Coaching
From The Complete Handbook of Coaching by Elaine Cox, Tatiana Bachkirova & David Clutterbuck
This guide explores a range of coaching theories and approaches, genres and settings and professional issues, helping you develop your own personal coaching style, no matter your area. Each chapter includes discussion questions, further reading and case studies to link theory and practice.
Coaching: What Really Works by Jenny Rogers
Author Jenny Rogers distils her decades of experience to guide you through the challenges and pitfalls, joys and rewards, and dos and don’ts of coaching.
Whether you are a qualified coach many years into practice, or a trainee moving into your first placement, the book captures what it takes to be a successful coach, and will support and inspire you to become a more confident, self-reflective practitioner.
Read chapter: Enquiring Collaboratively in Relational Coaching
From Skills in Relational Coaching by Simon Cavicchia & Charlotte Sills
This guide to the core skills and techniques of the relational approach to coaching brings the intersubjective, collaborative relationship between coach and client into focus. The authors use case examples from multiple settings to illustrate the skills needed at the stages of the coaching relationship.