THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF PROFESSIONAL COACHING: A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Development, Communication, and Behavioral Change
About this audiobook
THE COMPLETE HANDBOOK OF PROFESSIONAL COACHING
A Comprehensive Guide to Personal Development, Communication, and Behavioral Change
Great coaching is part science, part craft, and part presence. This in-depth handbook brings all three together, giving aspiring and practicing coaches a complete foundation in the psychology, communication skills, and practical tools needed to help people change, and to build a professional practice around it.
Across five parts and more than 25 chapters, this book covers:
Foundations of Coaching — coaching philosophy, the neuroscience of change and learning, human behavior and motivation, and the coach’s professional framework
Communication and Interpersonal Dynamics — the aggressive, passive, passive-aggressive, and assertive communication styles, how to recognize each, and how to coach clients toward assertiveness, plus active listening and body language
Emotional Intelligence and Self-Awareness — assertive beliefs and personal rights, a six-step method for emotional control, managing emotional states, cognitive restructuring, values and belief systems, and stress and burnout prevention
Coaching Tools and Techniques — goal-setting frameworks, the GROW model and its variations, Wheel of Life and SWOT assessments, timeline work, logical levels of change, anchoring and state management, and a deep chapter on visualization with ready-to-use guided scripts
Professional Coaching Practice — how to run a first session from preparation to coaching agreement, with variations for executive, team, and virtual contexts, plus red flags that signal when a client may need a different kind of support
Rounded out with practical appendices, checklists, and professional and ethical guidance throughout, this handbook is written for new coaches building their skills, experienced practitioners sharpening their craft, and anyone in a leadership, teaching, or helping role who wants to guide change with more skill and care.
Coaching is a professional development practice and is not a substitute for therapy or professional mental health treatment.
