Foundations of Professional Coaching: Models, Methods, and Core Competencies

by James Gavin

Foundations of Professional Coaching With HKPropel Access is the essential guide to developing coaching skills and creating influential coaching relationships. Offering foundational concepts and underlying principles of coaching, this text will help all types of coaches cultivate a growth environment that encourages lasting change and maximizes each client’s potential in their personal and professional lives.

Grounded in the International Coaching Federation's eight core competencies, the text covers the theoretical basis of professional coaching models and the application of those models in modern coaching. Readers will enrich their coaching skills as they learn to embody the coaching

Understanding the journey of behavior change with key models on the change processEmploying inclusive frameworks for working with clients to set and pursue goals and overcome challengesAdhering to ethical protocols, such as how to appropriately respond to clients' identity, environment, values, and beliefsCultivating trust and safety in the coaching relationship with respect to power and relationship dynamicsEstablishing presence as a coach and developing a coach’s voiceCommunicating effectively, with active listening and appropriate areas of inquiryThroughout the text, personal stories offer insights into meaningful coaching engagements, providing context for the concepts and their application to a wide variety of coaching interests, including those related to health and lifestyle wellness, professional and career concerns, and leadership development. Additionally, downloadable resources, delivered through HKPropel, include practical tools—such as forms and checklists—for a successful coaching practice.Foundations of Professional Coaching provides a pathway to excellence in coaching practice, with practical guidance on how to partner with clients in overcoming obstacles and developing goal-directed strategies leading to sustainable A code for accessing HKPropel is included with this ebook.

312 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 25, 2021

About the author

James^Gavin, author of books about jazz.

Reviews

[Jennifer · Rating 1 out of 5]

I made it 100 pages out of the almost 300. This book was dry. The citations were as invasive as kudzu in Virginia in June. It made me abandon the certification I was seeking when I was 60% through the course because the book was a misery to read. Life is too short.