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Personal Best: Step by Step Coaching for Creating the Life You Want [Paperback]

David Rock (Author)
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February 18, 2003
Personal Best gives you a first-hand experience of a powerful coaching system that has changed the lives of thousands of people around the world. Every professional sportsperson today has a coach, whose job is to guide, encourage, inspire and challenge the performer to achieve their personal best performance every time they go out on the field. Imagine what it would be like if you had a coach like that for your own life. Someone running along the sidelines with you, helping you set and reach your own goals, someone committed to you being the best you could be in the game of life. Imagine what a difference it could make to your performance every day. Personal Best gives you this unique opportunity. Written by David Rock, founder and CEO of Results Life Coaching, this book is designed as a step-by-step workbook, supported by inspiring stories of other people going through the coaching process.
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David started a coach training school in 1997 and has since trained over 200 coahes across Australia and New Zealan. His brand of coaching is now exported to the USA and United Kingdom. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia (February 18, 2003)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0743238176
  • ISBN-13: 978-0743238175
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #814,288 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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I have been interested in 'what makes us tick' since as early as I can remember, and my personal interest in brain research has been there since my teens.

In 2004 I found that brain research provided a missing piece in our understanding of how to be more effective leaders, managers or coaches. I have now written three books based on what I have been learning, including Quiet Leadership, the text book Coaching with the Brain in Mind, and Your Brain at Work.

I coined the term 'NeuroLeadership' in 2007, and am now closely involved with running a global Institute that is involved in research and education around how to improve organizations through the use of neuroscience. Learn more on that at www.neuroleadership.org I also run a consulting and training organization at NeuroLeadership.com

I maintain an active personal blog at www.davidrock.net, as well as posting regularly on psychology today, on a blog called 'Your Brain at Work'.

I live between Sydney Australia and New York City, and have a wonderful wife and two beautiful young daughters.

 

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27 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Very disappointing - another over simplistic life coaching book, March 18, 2006
This review is from: Personal Best: Step by Step Coaching for Creating the Life You Want (Paperback)
Very disappointing. I brought this book after being seeing one of David Rock's New York sales-pitch seminars. Although giving some useful tips on basic goal setting, this is yet another simplistic "step-by-step" life coaching book, light-weight with no substance and which promises far more that it delivers.

The book ends with another sales pitch about how the reader can train to be a life coach with Rock's comanpy. I thought I'd paid for a book, not a sales pitich.

I also found the author's claim to be the actual person who invented "Life Coaching" and "Workplace Coaching" to be distasteful, patronising and rather derogatory to the real pioneers of the coaching movement such a the late Thomas Lenard and the great Sir John Whitmore. Save your money.
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4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Strongly disagree with the 1st two reviewers, May 27, 2007
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I have skimmed this book. It is NOT sophisticated or advanced. It is, however, an easy yet comprehensive read. It presents basic concepts, facts and helps. If you've read other, similar or more advanced books, then it is undoubtedly covering old ground and is not for you. But if you are looking for basic guidance then this book is an excellent beginning source and guide.
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13 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars a simple personal development book, April 25, 2006
This review is from: Personal Best: Step by Step Coaching for Creating the Life You Want (Paperback)
If you are looking for a nice and simple personal development book this is it. You can read it in one afternoon and start coaching. I know that David has never had any formal education or coach training before inventing Life Coaching, and now I can understand why.

David Rock is a real master at taking the simple and making it simple. I use the results coaching system to help myself and others deal with major health problems. David is a true guru. Just being around him is healing, but using his coaching methods in conjunction with astrological science is really powerful. His approach fits so well with astrology. Try it.
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