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Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions (Norton Professional Books)

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I wish every coach in the personal-growth industry adopted the solution-focused, efficient-coaching principles presented in this book. Long-term coaching relationships often benefit the coach more than the client. Today, the process of coaching with integrity is to collaborate with the client rather than promise to fix them. Through strategic conversations and negotiations, coaches can quickly focus on the solution, identify the client's current resources, and organize the most efficient and affordable road map for change. Whether that require one session or ten, Berg and Szabo teach coaches how to do this by placing the responsibility of results in the client's lap, while allowing the coach to act as guide--not guru.

~ Bob Olson, OfSpirit.com editor

This is not really a book about coaching. There are many other books that assist coaches to learn about ways of assisting clients and they are actually written by experienced coaches. "Total Life Coaching" by Dr. Patrick Williams is just one example. Instead, the author-experts have taken a useful technique (solution-focused psychotherapy) and applied it to coaching. Readers will learn about the technique, but I think it has less to do with real coaching and more to do with therapists and book publishers cashing in on the latest trend in working with people who want to achieve their dreams.