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A List of Books on Coaching and Leadership
The Inner Game of Work
Focus, Learning, Pleasure and Mobility in the Workplace
W.Timothy Gallwey
Thomson Texere
2003
ISBN: 1 58799 172 1
This book captures the power and simplicity of non-directive
coaching. It’s a great starting point for anyone wanting to learn to coach effectively
as well as return to basics for those having gotten mired in complexity.
Effective Coaching
Lessons from the Coach’s Coach
Myles Downey
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1996
ISBN: 1857881702
A very accessible and
easy to read basic introduction to Coaching. This handbook helps readers learn the
skills and the art of good coaching, and realise its enormous value in unlocking
people's potential to maximise their own performance. It argues for using questions,
rather than instructions and commands to generate prompt action and peak performance.
Coaching for Performance: People skills for professionals
Sir John Whitmore
Nicholas
Brealey Publishing 1996
ISBN: 1857881702
A very accessible and easy to read basic introduction
to Coaching. This handbook helps readers learn the skills and the art of good coaching,
and realise its enormous value in unlocking people's potential to maximise their
own performance. It argues for using questions, rather than instructions and commands
to generate prompt action and peak performance.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Sub-title: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen R Covey
ISBN: 0 684 85839 8
Presents
the reader with a holistic, integrated and principle-centred approach for solving
personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes,
Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty,
and human dignity. Covey defines the "habits" as "the intersection of knowledge,
skill and desire" and states that the seven habits of the title are not mutually
exclusive but, when developed together, help to form a well-rounded, sensitive, confident
and effective human being.
Coaching for Leadership
Marshall Goldsmith, Laurence Lyons, Alyssa Freas
John Wiley
and Sons Ltd
ISBN: 0787955175
Today almost all managers and leaders are seeking information
on coaching - what it is, what it can do, how to apply it. This book draws on these
strands in a single, coherent framework. This guide should be useful for executives
in the art of coaching which is easy to do but hard to get right.
Coaching with NLP
Joseph O’Connor and Andrea Lages
Harper Collins Publishers 2004
ISBN:
0 00 715122 5
This is one of the best presented and written books on NLP and coaching.
Full of simple answers to the ‘How’ questions of: Giving your life direction; living
your deepest values; making powerful plans; dealing with obstacles; achieving success;
effective questioning. Lots of practical examples.
NLP at Work
The difference that makes a difference in Business
Sue Knight
Nicholas Brealey Publishing 1995
ISBN: 1 85788 070 6
A clear and readable
book that cuts through the jargon and introduces many NLP techniques useful in a
business context.
Coaching across cultures
New tools for leveraging National, Corporate and Professional
differences.
Philippe Rosinski
Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publishers 2003
ISBN 1 85788 301 2
Expands
the notion of culture to different groups within the workplace. Introduces a creative
way of coaching to consider differences of every kind - from engineers and nurses
to business mangers.
Making Coaching Work
Creating a Coaching Culture.
David Clutterbuck and David Megginson
CIPD 2006
ISBN 1 84398 074 6
Coaching will only work well in a culture and climate
that supports learning and development. This book points the way forward to creating
the right conditions for coaching practices to succeed.
The Coaching at Work Toolkit
A Complete Guide to Techniques and Practices
Perry Zeus and Suzanne Skiffington
McGraw Hill 2006
ISBN 0 074 71103 2
A very comprehensive
and practical resource for coaches in the use of theories, tools, techniques and
practice that effect learning and change.
Handbook of Coaching Psychology
A Guide for Practitioners.
Eds. Stephen Palmer and Alison Whybrow
Routledge 2007
ISBN 978 1 58391 707 7
Outlines
the development of coaching practice and insights into the application of eleven
different psychological approaches to coaching practice.
The Situational Leader
Dr. Paul Hersey
Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publishers 1992
ISBN 0 446 51342 39
A down
to earth practical book on the subject of leading and managing people. A small book
which presents complex ideas in a simple and useful way.
