Confident Coaching: The fundamental theories and concepts of coaching: a practical guidebook

: 1 A Brief History of Coaching: The origins of coaching and how it has evolved and broadened over the years.: 2 Approaches to Coaching: All the most important models of coaching.: 3 To Coach or Not to Coach…: How to recognise when coaching is appropriate and when it isn't.: 4 The Coaching Relationship: The collaborative nature of the coaching relationship.: 5 Coaching Your Staff/Team: Special issues to be considered when managers and leaders opt to coach their own staff.: 6 Working as an External Coach: The advantages and disadvantages of working as an external coach.: 7 Practical Matters: All the practical things every coach needs to consider.: 8 The Intake Session: All the ingredients for getting things off to a good start.: 9 Prepare Yourself: All aspects of emotional and mental readiness.: 10 Questions, Questions, Questions: Different kinds of questions and what makes a question powerful.: 11 Raising the Bar and Making Things Happen: Some of the fundamental skills of coaching, supported by sample dialogue.: 12 Tools and Techniques: Ideas to help coaches facilitate change.: 13 Acting as a Mirror for the Client: Providing observations, reflecting back patterns or themes and articulating what you notice to your clients.: 14 Offering Suggestions: Asking permission to put forward suggestions.: 15 Utilising Metaphors/Stories: The power of working with the similes and analogies clients often come up with.: 16 Their Stuff/Your Stuff: What to do when clients raise issues that are all too familiar to you.: 17 When the Going Gets Tough:  Overcoming problems and handling ‘gremlins'.: 18 Closure/Completion: Bringing the coaching relationship to a satisfactory conclusion.: 19 Developing Yourself as a Coach: Evolving your own style as a coach and ways of developing coaching skills.: 20 Coaching as a Career: Advice for those who want to set themselves up as an independent coach.