Co-Active Coaching, 2nd Edition: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life (Paperback)

by Laura Whitworth (Author), Karen Kimsey-House (Author), Henry Kimsey-House (Author), Phillip Sandahl (Author)

Editorial Reviews

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New edition of this 1998 book, which ushered in the age of professional career coaching, can give you some ideas on how to help that budding executive blossom. -- Triangle Business Journal, April 13, 2007

The book provides a recipe for the necessary ingredients to serve as a business coach. -- T&D, March 2007

Product Description
A newly revised edition of the book that helped define the coaching profession, Co-Active Coaching captures the essence of what it takes to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships. The authors describe in detail their flexible and adaptive model-placing the client's agenda at the heart of the coaching partnership, define the skills required for success, provide dozens of sample coaching conversations, and a power-packed Coach's Toolkit of over 35 exercises, questionnaires, checklists, and forms to make these proven principles and techniques eminently practical and immediately actionable.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Davies-Black Publishing; 2nd edition (February 25, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891061983
• ISBN-13: 978-0891061984
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 7 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,200 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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220 of 223 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Model for Coaching Success in Others, November 13, 2000

By	Les Lauber (Lawrence, KS USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life (Hardcover)

"Co-Active Coaching" is written for the coach or prospective coach. The authors, Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House, and Phil Sandahl, share their model and ideas for coaching others in three parts. They then provide a toolkit for coaches.

Part I is "Coaching Fundamentals." Here they outline the model which places the client squarely in the center. The model focuses on the coach using his or her skills to focus on the client's fulfillment, balance, and process. The intake session is discussed here sufficiently to create the context of the later coaching sessions.

Part II is "Co-Active Coaching Skills." The authors detail in this section five skills key to the coach's success: listening, use of intuition, exploration of curiosity, action and learning, and self-management. There are activities to practice each skill at the end of each chapter--anyone wanting to coach should not skip these exercises, which are carefully designed to get to the heart of the skill described.

Part III is "Co-Active Coaching Processes." This section explains "the three core principles of coaching:" fulfillment, balance, and process. Especially helpful here is Chapter 11, "Tips and Traps," a valuable addition that warns and prepares the coach for things that may not go quite right....

The last section is "The Coach's Toolkit," and this alone is worth the price of the book. It includes Action Plans, Client Activities and Worksheets, Intake Checklists--everything a coach needs to begin a successful coaching program. A wise coach will undertake the exercises and worksheets for himself or herself, and thus will better understand what the client is asked to do.

118 of 122 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Whole-person coaching...a powerful approach., February 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life (Hardcover)

Co-coaching is distinctive in that it involves both the coach and the client; it is also referred to as personal/professional coaching because it addresses the whole person (the whole of their life).

Many books we have reviewed on this subject, while of value within the workplace, do not strive to address the multidimensional nature of the individual. In contrast, the approach presented here is distinctly holistic.

The authors' offer a model plus a set of skills and techniques. The book is filled with specifics and excellent insights, and gives extensive guidance about how to be highly effective in coaching. About 75 pages are devoted to "The Coach's Toolkit," consisting of forms, checklists, exercises, resources and a glossary. This book offers a potentially powerful approach to coaching. It is, in our view, requisite reading for anyone involved in, or considering, coaching. Highly recommended.

76 of 79 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent resource!, March 25, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and Life (Hardcover)

As a professor of Organizational Psychology at the California School of Professional Psychology, I've seen a lot of interest expressed by psychologists in the process of personal and executive coaching. Conventional training in psychology is not necessarily a very good preparation for this work. Rather, what is needed is the sort of empathetic and careful relationship building, informed by but not restricted to psychological approaches, that comes through in this book. I heartily recommend it to all who are interested in developing a greater sensitivity to the coaching process!