Description
Book Synopsis
- What are the critical success factors in effective executive coaching?
- What are the key competencies of a psychologically-informed coach?
- What are the similarities and differences between coaching and therapy?
This book provides business coaches and management consultants with the framework for a psychological approach to executive coaching. It shows how performance-related issues in the workplace often have a psychological dimension to them and provides the reader with an understanding of how to work in more depth to help people resolve their issues and unlock their potential.
It analyzes what constitutes effective coaching, stressing the importance of sound coaching principles, good coaching process, the desirable competencies of the coach, the importance of the coaching relationship and the issue of 'coachability'. It also examines the impact of a stronger psychological approach to coaching, exploring the key psychological competencies required, how to develop th
Table of Contents
Series preface
Preface
Introduction
Part 1 A framework for effective coaching
1 Good coaching process
2 Critical success factors in executive coaching
Part 2 What coaches deal with – common themes and issues
3 Common themes and issues brought to coaching
4 Skills and performance coaching
5 Personal development coaching
6 Leadership coaching
7 Meaning-making
Part 3 The foundations of a psychological approach to coaching
8 The key dimensions of a coaching session
9 Psychological mindedness – the foundation stone of psychological competence
10 The desirable proficiencies of psychologically oriented coaching
11 Developing as a coach
Part 4 Supporting people through change – a Gestalt perspective
12 Creating the conditions for change
13 Achieving closure around issues
14 The coach’s guidance systems
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