50 Top Tools for Coaching: A Complete Tool Kit for Developing and Empowering People

by Gillian Jones, Ro Gorell

The coaching market is still growing, and as it matures clients are becoming demanding buyers of coaching services. The need for coaching to demonstrate credibility and competence is increasing. This book sets out to help professional coaches achieve more with their clients. 50 Top Tools for Coaching provides a broad range of tools and techniques that can be easily applied to many situations. The book will help coaches assess the needs of their clients, select tools that address their needs, and allow them to coach with confidence. It covers topics crucial to the coaching relationship, setting goals and measuring progress, understanding and resolving problems and conflict, increasing confidence and enhancing performance, interacting and working more effectively with others, enhancing one's leadership style. The book includes sample forms and tables that can be used in a coaching session. A companion offers these forms for download and provides access to video samples of coaching sessions.

Genres: Business, Leadership, Nonfiction, Personal Development

240 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2009

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Reviews

[Ell · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an informative, useful guide. I found myself highlighting and shaking my head yes while I was reading. It has tips, guidelines and advice for leaders and educators at all levels. This is a great reference book for coaches and leaders of all sorts.

[Darren · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a quite specialised book for a specialist audience, yet even the more curious generalist could get something out of it if they try. This book is effectively a secret look into the toolkit of a coach, giving 50 top tools that can help transform a coaching situation.

The authors set out to provide the reader with the right mix of techniques, preparative aids and analytics assistance to really provide a powerful “coaching experience” for clients. You may consider yourself to be a top-flight coach already, but any elite sports trainer will tell you, keeping an eye on what other experts do can yield benefits as, at this level, even a marginal improvement can move mountains. For the rest of us, this book will help you up your game.

There is something for everyone; maybe you need to tighten up your provision of the relationship, perhaps you must work on increasing your client’s confidence and enhancing their performance or maybe you are not so hot on developing a leadership style. From start to finish, you are given it all. You still have to implement it, react to the information and deliver. This is a coach for a coach, in other words. A guide, not a rigid template.

If you don’t know what you are doing then either you are a coach who needs a lot more practical help and education or a general reader; here this book might be a bit too overwhelming but perseverance and a positive attitude can pay off. For those who are more experienced in the art of coaching, it might be a little goldmine.

That’s it really. Short and sweet. It seems to do what it says on the tin and then some more. It can either deliver major renovation assistance to your coaching skillset or just let you further polish an already polished operation. Either way, what do you have to fear?

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[Jane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a gift to coaches--50 different protocols, questioning techniques, activities, exercises, reflection prompts and more to broaden your methods for interacting with clients. You might find a tip for improving one of your current tools or an entirely new idea that will work just right for that client that doesn't "get" your favorite one. I particularly liked some subtle variations to my favorite problem-solving tool and a new method for helping a client get clear about goals. And, if you think one of the tools in the book seems crazy or off-base, think for a moment as to who you know that would love it--it might be worth a try.

Thanks, NetGalley, for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

[David Alexander · Rating 2 out of 5]

The tools mentioned are mostly geared toward corporate coaching. Some of them are helpful. Like most coaching books, the methodology promoted is steeped in humanism.

[thebookiereviewer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book, really informative on corporative coaching. I look foward to take it into practice.

disclaimer: I got an arc from netgalley for my honest review.

[Duong Tan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful book for professional coaches.