The Coaching Shift

by Shonna D Waters, Brodie Gregory Riordan

The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You offers practical guidance on how to adopt a coaching mindset and how to build a coaching skill set to unlock better communication, stronger relationships, and high performance in others. Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help readers think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond. The book offers specific and tangible advice for readers to develop their coaching and communication skills, while also developing a deeper understanding of themselves. The Coaching Shift, with its clear tone, anecdotal references, and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, and for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. These concepts and practices are also relevant for anyone who wants to have more effective interactions with others.

212 pages, Paperback

Published November 1, 2022

Reviews

[Anita · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is primarily about coaching skills. It's not a handbook for professional coaches, and the authors are clear about that. It's organized well: focus on you the reader or individual, coaching, coaching individuals, coaching in organizations, and coaching in the world.

For professional coaches, it aligns well to the ICF core competencies, and the references are excellent!

I got the most value from the exercises at the end of the book rather than the ones at the end of each chapter, but depending on where you are in your coaching journey, you might find these questions valuable for your own "self-coaching."