Tony Stoltzfus
Leadership Coaching: The Disciplines, Skills and Heart of a Christian Coach
Leadership Coaching: The Disciplines, Skills and Heart of a Christian Coach
Do you want to increase your effectiveness in working with people, developing leaders and transforming lives? Leadership Coaching can show you how.
Leadership Coaching is an essential tool for coaches, leaders and trainees. Written by a prominent Christian coach and coach trainer, this book overflows with the practical tools, real life examples and practice exercises that bring the coaching approach to life.
The book begins with in-depth look at the heart of a leadership coach: the values and character qualities that give coaching its tremendous power. If you grasp the heart of coaching, you'll coach instinctively--so the author provides plenty of powerful stories and biblical examples to help. Starting with insights about how God builds leaders from the inside out, the book presents an integrated paradigm for developing leaders through coaching. As one coach trainer says:
"Without a doubt, it's the best I've read in the coaching genre. Tony has raised the bar for books on coaching with Leadership Coaching. This is especially true for coaching books written from a biblical perspective."
Part II shows you how to coach with interactive exercises and sample coaching dialogs. You'll learn the foundational coaching skills and best practices the following seven key areas:
- Creating the coaching relationship
- Working with the client's agenda
- Using goals to define the desired outcome
- Intuitive listening
- Powerful questions
- Creating action steps
- Setting up support structures for change
Six additional Master Class chapters offer additional tools, models and exercises to help you apply these coaching skills to real-world situations. Leadership Coaching also offers extensive lists of powerful questions and key coaching principles, feedback tips, tools for problem-solving and much more. It's a one-stop shop for all the practical insights you need to coach effectively.
For Spanish speakers, order a Spanish language version of Leadership Coaching