Product Description

Coaching as a profession is experiencing dramatic growth. From senior executives at Fortune 100 companies to the self-employed, people at the point of change are looking more and more to coaches for guidance and support.

For professional coaches who want to increase their proficiency as well as for those interested in integrating coaching skills into their consulting practice, CO-ACTIVE COACHING presents a revolutionary new collaborative approach. Developed by three pioneers and leading authorities in the coaching field, this approach allows the client and coach to work together to identify both work-related and personal areas of development. Whitworth, Kimsey-House, and Sandahl, cofounders of the Coaches Training Institute, the largest nonprofit educational instiution devoted exclusively to the training of coaches, espouse a unique new model of coaching--co-active coaching. This model encompasses five specific skill sets and three key principles of coaching: fulfillment, balance, and process.

CO-ACTIVE COACHING offers a comprehensive view of the practice of coaching and features instructive coaching examples, skill-building exerciss for practitioners to use with clients, and coaching tips and traps.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #228497 in Books
• Published on: 1998-12-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Review
A book coaches will find worth having on their bookshelf as a reference and place to go to find ideas. -- Peer Resources Top Coaching Books, July 2004

Techniques for achieving one's goals from pioneers in the booming field of career coaching. -- New Age Journal, November/December 1998

The Co-Active Coaching model can (and does) provide interesting tools and tips to assist with coaching in a professional capacity. -- Personnel Psychology, Spring 2000

This book proposes a new kind of coaching, which involves the active participation of both the coach and the client. -- HR Magazine, February 1999

Whether you're training coaches, instituting a mentoring program, or evaluating a coach for your own use, the authors' model will come in handy. -- Training & Development, May 1999

From the Publisher
A selection of the Doubleday Executive Program book club. Foreword by John Whitmore, author of Coaching for Performance.

Discover the technqiues needed to transform your consulting skills into those required for professional and personal coaching--the hottest new profession in organizational consulting!

"Capture the wisdom of co-active coaching with this fine book...a must-read if you want your practice to thrive into the next century."--Richard J. Leider, Founder of The Inventure Group; author of The Power of Purpose and Repacking Your Bags

"Co-Active Coaching changes who people are at work. This book describes the pragmatic skills needed to create value alignment and high performance around workplace satisfaction and personalized customer service."--Don Semmler, Market General Manager, Marriott International, Inc.

"Co-Active Coaching breaks new and important ground in the field of coaching. It penetrates to the heart of the coaching process, enabling readers to discover how they can tap into the true power of coaching."--David B. Peterson, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Individual Coaching Services, Personnel Decisions International; coauthor of Leader as Coach

"I am a better manager, a more powerful leader, and a more understanding person as a result of co-active coaching. This book is a desperately needed prescription for those who want to play a bigger game."--David Balser, Ph.D., Director, Corporate Environment, British Columbia Hydro

From the Inside Flap
The coaching profession is on the rise. Recent surveys have shown that more and more executives and managers are seeking coaching for increased self-awareness, a more balanced life, better goal setting, and less stress. Do you have what it takes to be the coach these individuals are looking for?

Written by three leading authorities in the field of professional coaching, Co-Active Coaching offers a new model of practice for coaches as well as for all those who want to integrate coaching into their consulting practice. Authors Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, and Phil Sandahl describe the principles and components of co-active coaching, a ground-breaking technique founded on interactive participation and collaboration, and thoroughly examine the skills needed for practice. With over two dozen instructive coaching dialogues and examples, eighteen skill-building exercises to develop co-active coaching techniques, and a comprehensive coach's toolkit, this hands-on reference gives you the critical foundation and practical guidance you need to succeed as a professional coach.

Customer Reviews

Model for Coaching Success in Others
"Co-Active Coaching" is written for the coach or prospective coach. The authors, Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, and Phil Sandahl, share their model and ideas for coaching others in three parts. They then provide a toolkit for coaches.

Part I is "Coaching Fundamentals." Here they outline the model which places the client squarely in the center. The model focuses on the coach using his or her skills to focus on the client's fulfillment, balance, and process. The intake session is discussed here sufficiently to create the context of the later coaching sessions.

Part II is "Co-Active Coaching Skills." The authors detail in this section five skills key to the coach's success: listening, use of intuition, exploration of curiosity, action and learning, and self-management. There are activities to practice each skill at the end of each chapter--anyone wanting to coach should not skip these exercises, which are carefully designed to get to the heart of the skill described.

Part III is "Co-Active Coaching Processes." This section explains "the three core principles of coaching:" fulfillment, balance, and process. Especially helpful here is Chapter 11, "Tips and Traps," a valuable addition that warns and prepares the coach for things that may not go quite right....

The last section is "The Coach's Toolkit," and this alone is worth the price of the book. It includes Action Plans, Client Activities and Worksheets, Intake Checklists--everything a coach needs to begin a successful coaching program. A wise coach will undertake the exercises and worksheets for himself or herself, and thus will better understand what the client is asked to do.

Whole-person coaching...a powerful approach.
Co-coaching is distinctive in that it involves both the coach and the client; it is also referred to as personal/professional coaching because it addresses the whole person (the whole of their life).

Many books we have reviewed on this subject, while of value within the workplace, do not strive to address the multidimensional nature of the individual. In contrast, the approach presented here is distinctly holistic.

The authors' offer a model plus a set of skills and techniques. The book is filled with specifics and excellent insights, and gives extensive guidance about how to be highly effective in coaching. About 75 pages are devoted to "The Coach's Toolkit," consisting of forms, checklists, exercises, resources and a glossary. This book offers a potentially powerful approach to coaching. It is, in our view, requisite reading for anyone involved in, or considering, coaching. Highly recommended.

excellent resource!
As a professor of Organizational Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology, I've seen a lot of interest expressed by psychologists in the process of personal and executive coaching. Conventional training in psychology is not necessarily a very good preparation for this work. Rather, what is needed is the sort of empathetic and careful relationship building, informed by but not restricted to psychological approaches, that comes through in this book. I heartily recommend it to all who are interested in developing a greater sensitivity to the coaching process!