The Complete Handbook of Coaching
- Elaine Cox - Oxford Brookes University, UK
- Tatiana Bachkirova - Oxford Brookes University, UK
- David Clutterbuck - Clutterbuck Coaching and Mentoring International
This fourth edition provides the most comprehensive guide to the field of coaching, exploring a range of coaching theories and approaches, genres and settings and professional issues. It supports trainees and professionals to identify and develop a personal style of coaching. Each chapter includes discussion questions to facilitate reflection on the topic, further reading suggestions and case studies that help trainees make the crucial link between theory and practice.
Its three parts cover:
- The theoretical traditions underpinning coaching such as cognitive-behavioural, gestalt and existential
- Contexts and genres such as life, executive, peer, team and career coaching
- Professional issues such as ethics, supervision, continuing professional development, standards and mental-health issues.
This Fourth Edition comes with a new chapter on Diversity and Inclusion in Coaching, updated content throughout on cross-cultural coaching and updated Further Reading. A new online Teaching Guide provides chapter teaching and assessment suggestions, videos and further reading to help support trainees’ learning.
Thousands of practitioners and trainees across a variety of professions have been helped by this distinctive handbook. From those working in health to education, from business and management to psychology, this unique handbook is an invaluable resource for any coaching career.
Supplements
https://study.sagepub.com/coxhandbook4e
An instructor’s manual with chapter teaching and assessment suggestions, videos and further reading.
Useful resource for students studying ILM Coaching courses.
For those interested in coaching
A comprehensive text book which addresses the theoretical psychological concepts that underpin different approaches to coaching
An excellent text is comprehensive in its application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation of the full range of relevant and contemporary issues prevalent in coaching situations. The text is suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students completing any business and management module and especially any people management modules in any business, leadership, management and work-based programmes of study.
too specialised for my leadership course - interesting handbook though