Since I'm delivering training on coaching today, albeit in the context of coaching team member within an organisation as opposed to professional coaching, I figured it might be apt to review this book right now. ![]() ![]() Ultimately, NVC made me want to learn more about NVC, and this book completely satisfied my interest in coaching (not for me!), so perhaps it did its job better than I know. To be fair, NVC was more of an overview, and this seems more of a textbook, with its lengthy appendices (almost half the book) and additional CD of materials (which I did not look at, and whose material may be lively as all get-out). My experience reading this was eerily similar to the one I had reading Non-Violent Communication, whose author states outright that a lot of the humor that comes into play in practice necessarily must be stripped from any explanation, both for brevity and clarity. ![]() While I've never been coached by someone formally trained (by ICF) in this style of coaching, I have been coached in the collaborative style, and found it challenging, invigorating, and highly engaging-qualities that are completely leached out in the dissection and description of it, save a few spots here and there, chiefly the examples of coach-client conversations. This book thoroughly explains a kind of coaching that uses collaboration between coach and client to activate the client's natural creativity and abilities towards solving the client's problems. The world would work infinitely better if everyone read this book and followed the Co-Active model for being in relationship with others. There is so much to be learned in here about really effective communication, meaningful conversation and transformational relationships, at home or at work, it really should be required reading starting in junior high/middle school. I also think this book is extremely valuable for non-coaches. Since reading it, I've been through CTI's coach training and certification program so I can confidently say that the book is an excellent basis for understanding a tried-and-true method for coaching, but nothing replaces the in-person training and, of course, many hours of coaching! The book itself is easy and enjoyable to read and does a good job explaining this approach to coaching. It's the only coaching school in partnership with the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School and the only one you can get real college credit for (if desired) because it's so rigorous. CTI's school and Co-Active model of coaching are considered the gold standard in the industry. Many other coaching schools use this book as their textbook too. ![]() This is the definitive textbook on life coaching written by the pioneers in the field who have run their own coaching school for over 20 years called The Coaches Training Institute (CTI). This edition also contains an on-line Coach's Toolkit (replacing the CD of the second edition), several new coaching demonstrations and more than 35 updated exercises, questionnaires, checklists and reproducible forms. The third edition emphasizes evoking transformational change in the client and extends the use of the Co-Active Model into leadership management and its effectiveness throughout organizations. This fully revised third edition of Co-Active Coaching has been updated to reflect the expanded vision of the newly updated Co-Active Model and coaching course curriculum at The Coaches Training Institute, the training organization founded and run by the authors for 20 years. Published in more than ten languages now, this book has been used as the definitive resource in dozens of corporate, professional development and university-based coaching programs as well as by thousands of individuals looking to elevate their communication, relationship and coaching skills. When Co-Active Coaching was first released in 1998, this pioneering work set the stage for what has become a cultural and business phenomenon and helped launch the profession of coaching.
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