Dianne R. Stober

Anthony M. Grant

The first reference to bring scientifically proven approaches to the practice of personal and executive coaching The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook applies recent behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching, bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching works. A groundbreaking resource for this burgeoning profession, this text presents several different coaching approaches along with the empirical and theoretical knowledge base supporting each. Recognizing the special character of coaching-that the coaching process is non-medical, collaborative, and highly contextual-the authors lay out an evidence-based coaching model that allows practitioners to integrate their own expertise and the needs of their individual clients with the best current knowledge. This gives coaches the ability to better understand and optimize their own coaching interventions, while not having to conform to a single, rigidly defined practice standard. The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook looks at various approaches and applies each to the same two case studies, demonstrating through this practical comparison the methods, assumptions, and concepts at work in the different approaches. The coverage includes: An overview: a contextual model of coaching approaches Systems and complexity theory The behavioral perspective The humanistic perspective Cognitive coaching Adult development theory An integrative, goal-focused approach Psychoanalytically informed coaching Positive psychology An adult learning approach An adventure-based framework Culture and coaching

Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients

Evidence Based Coaching Handbook

Alison Leigh

Based on the hit ABC TV series Making Australia Happy, this practical, everyday handbook shows you how to become a happier person in just eight weeks. The simple exercises and activities in 8 Steps to Happiness are profoundly effective and scientifically proven, and can lead to measurable physiological changes, from improved immune function to better sleep and increased physical strength. The 8 steps program gives you no-nonsense tools to make real change in your life. Using these techniques, you too can be on the road to a happier, healthier and more fulfilled life. And be warned: happiness is contagious!

An Everyday Handbook

8 Steps To Happiness

Michael Cavanagh

Travis Kemp

Presents key papers from from the first Evidence-Based Coaching Conference, held at the University of Sydney, July 2003. Addresses the concerns of the emerging profession of coaching, giving an overview of the field, developing coaching theory and its evidence- based practice and reporting on empirical and qualitative studies.

Theory, Research and Practice from the Behavioural Sciences

Evidence-Based Coaching Volume 1

Jane Greene

No matter how good you are at your job, and how good your company is, unless you know how to get the best from your people, you might as well go home now. This is a direct, easy read, for smart busy managers that shows you how to become a highly effective coach as well as manager.

Managing People in a Complex World

Solution-focused Coaching

Work occupies a huge amount of our time and our headspace and generally we want to succeed in our chosen professions. Doing well is not just a question of showing up and getting on with it, but most of us are not sure how to develop a full range of skills to ensure we get ahead. And who can afford the luxury of your own workplace coach while you crawl your way up the ladder? Coach yourself @ work applies the precepts of life coaching to the workplace. It provides invaluable, real-life advice on working more efficiently and creatively, developing and using emotional intelligence, managing time, negotiating complex organisational systems, sustaining productive working relationships, dealing with bosses, colleagues and clients from hell, delegating effectively and making sure your contribution is recognised and your promotions are in the bag. Whether you're in the mailroom or the boardroom, you'll find pages and pages of useful tips guaranteed to make your working day more satisfying and rewarding.

Anthony M. Grant

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