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This ground-breaking book will give you the skills you need to become an advanced coach.

For many years, executive coaching assumed that feelings had no place at work, or in the coaching relationship. Fearful of getting into therapy, coaches ignored emotions at the expense of focusing on solutions too soon. Neuroscience is now showing us that emotion is the dominant part of the human brain and as coaches we can only ignore this at our peril. Everything in coaching is about trust between coach and client, and the only way to create trust is through skilled and sustained empathy.

Coaching with Empathy explains what empathy is, why it matters so much in coaching and what can go wrong when it's missing. Coaches who can use the skill of empathy, in the moment, have in their hands a powerful tool to nurture change in their clients. Anne Brockbank and Ian McGill provide an easily followed guide about how to create empathy and sustain it with clients, before asking them to think ra

Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
Acknowledgements

Why use empathy in coaching?
Empathy in situational coaching
Neuroscience and empathy
Once more with feeling
Questioning: why are you asking?
Using the NEWW model
Challenge in coaching
The boundary between coaching and therapy

Conclusion
Bibliography

Coaching with Empathy

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      Publisher Open University Press
      Published 16 August 2013
      ISBN-13 9780335246557
      978-0335246557
      ISBN-10 335246559
      Also in:
      Psychology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This ground-breaking book will give you the skills you need to become an advanced coach.

      For many years, executive coaching assumed that feelings had no place at work, or in the coaching relationship. Fearful of getting into therapy, coaches ignored emotions at the expense of focusing on solutions too soon. Neuroscience is now showing us that emotion is the dominant part of the human brain and as coaches we can only ignore this at our peril. Everything in coaching is about trust between coach and client, and the only way to create trust is through skilled and sustained empathy.

      Coaching with Empathy explains what empathy is, why it matters so much in coaching and what can go wrong when it's missing. Coaches who can use the skill of empathy, in the moment, have in their hands a powerful tool to nurture change in their clients. Anne Brockbank and Ian McGill provide an easily followed guide about how to create empathy and sustain it with clients, before asking them to think ra

      Table of Contents
      Series Editor's Foreword
      Acknowledgements

      Why use empathy in coaching?
      Empathy in situational coaching
      Neuroscience and empathy
      Once more with feeling
      Questioning: why are you asking?
      Using the NEWW model
      Challenge in coaching
      The boundary between coaching and therapy

      Conclusion
      Bibliography

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