The Complete Handbook of Coaching

by Elaine Cox (editor), Tatiana Bachkirova (Editor), David Ashley Clutterbuck (Editor)

This book    provides a wide-ranging guide to the complex, multidisciplinary area of coaching, helping trainees to find comprehensive answers to their coaching questions. It allows them to identify and develop their own personal style of coaching.

A specially selected group of international authors contribute various expertise and insights across three key Learning is also supported by new online resources. Videos, case studies, journal articles, and useful websites have been carefully collated by our contributors to help trainees make the crucial link between theory and practice.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, Business

616 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2009

Reviews

[Heidi Goehmann]

Quite helpful with lots of foundations and techniques. I am impressed with the clarity of definitions offered for professional spaces that often seem vague.

[Beth Melillo]

I used this book as a resource for researching, designing, and improving coaching systems as part of my work in HR. I found the introduction to be excellent in guiding my use of the book, and appreciated the methodical approach to the topic of coaching.

I skimmed through Section I - Theoretical Approaches, focusing on the approaches I thought were most relevant to workplace culture, Cognitive Behavioral/Solution Focused/Person-Centered. I am certainly interested in reading the other sections of the book, but didn't spend much time on them this year.

In particular, Section II - Contexts and Genres (Chapters 14 - 25) were very practitioner focused and provided a balanced approach to determining which method of coaching would be helpful in different workplace scenarios. I pulled several ideas from here, and used the section on Peer Coaching as a resource for a LinkedIn article I authored. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ex...

As of this review, I have not read Section III.

I recommend this book as an overview of the different methods of coaching, and see it adding value for other HR practitioners, counselors, career/executive coaches, I-O Psychologists, and a good reference book to have on your shelf.

[Richard]

Very comprehensive

Thorough consideration of multiple schools of coaching thought, practical exploration of practice considerations, and good introduction to ethics, broader context, and ongoing directions.

[Milos Mirosavljevic]

Great and very comprehensive textbook on the coaching practice. It coves various styles, theory backgrounds, applications, case studies, and much more.

[Cecile Andreas]

Excellent and very readable text about the relationship between various schools of psychology and how they apply to coaching