by Laura Whitworth, Karen Kimsey-House, Henry Kimsey-House, Phillip Sandahl
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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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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Nothing new under the sun ..., 2010-07-19
Average book elaborated on nice but not surprising model. I would recommend this to people who want to discover the basics about coaching method. Average theory, models, nice question overview of questions in the end of the book.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 A very valuable resource, 2010-05-29
In my view it does not matter where you are in your coaching career, this is a valuable resource.
The book is laid out in three parts. The first section goes into the fundamentals of Co-Active coaching. They discuss the Co-Active (or collaborative) coaching model and the coach client relationship.
Part two goes deals with the components of coaching: Listening, Intuition, Curiosity, Moving forward and deeper and Self-Management. These are the coaching skills and techniques you can develop and/or improve. I believe most coaches have the propensity to be skilled in these areas, but here is some sound practical advice on how to improve these skills and specific ways to use them in the coaching process.
Part three deals with Co-Active coaching principles and practices. Putting parts one and two into practice by going deeper into the theory and using specific examples to illustrate the points.
Then there is what might be the most valuable part of the book - the Coach's Toolkit. The toolkit is an extremely valuable resource containing forms and exercises that any coach can put to great use in their business. There are specific exercises, client interview forms, planning checklist, client profile and many, many other forms.
In addition there is a CD which has two practice coaching session in audio format as well as all the forms from the Coach's Toolkit in PDF format.
If you are serious about your coaching business, this is a wonderful resource that will save you time and money in running your business. It is also a very handy reference resource to refresh and improve your skills.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Excellent service, 2010-05-15
Received my new book, with speedy delivery and the book was still sealed.
Thank You,
Shotzie
6 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
Blind leading the blind, 2009-11-26
To their credit, the authors of this text do address the larger issues of the values that are behind the client's agenda, and they attempt to justify their approach by seeking those as the larger goal underneath the particular task(s) for which they may be engaged. Despite their efforts, this book reflects all of the philosophical objections one can raise when value neutral counseling or coaching is promoted.
No one can offer an unbiased worldview when approaching the issues, choices, and problems of life (my own preconceptions are admittedly Christian). The coach will inevitably bring his own presuppositions to the process of coaching. The authors are no exception. Beginning with their discussion of Balance in Chapter 1, they attempt to justify human wisdom about what is important in life, defining it as what is truly important to the client. They make their own value judgment that balance is, of itself, a worthy goal, without questioning exactly what is weighed. It is my view that if Christian values are not the basis of coaching, then the blind are leading the blind to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic (to combine metaphors).
This is aptly illustrated by the ostensibly unbiased view the coach is to take about the client's methods in achieving his goals (see "Spaciousness" p.17). The coach is completely detached from any judgments about means or ends "so long as the client continues to move toward the results the client wants. This `end justifies the means' argument is bad enough, but apparently not even the end is open to question. Where conscience might operate, the authors position might be construed as labeling it a "gremlin".
The importance of good listening skills led to a discussion of something presented as "Level 3 Listening". There are several problems with this technique as presented. It seems to be a synthesis of the coach and client's mental process - a rather mystical concept - that is not very well defined. It seems to offer rather fertile ground for the injection of the coach's bias. It is later presented under the category of direct observation, which raises the question of who is really being observed, the coach or the client?
Values are directly addressed in Chapter 8 "Client Fulfillment". Space does not permit a complete dissection of the authors' views here, but several points are worthy of note. Statements like "values are not morals.... are not principles" (p.119) are at the heart of the problem with their approach. Their view that "what is to be admired is not the value itself, but your client's ability to live that value fully in his life" is, quite simply, shocking. By that logic the client's fulfillment of his value of personal power would lead to a sense of "rightness" when he betrays his co-worker.
I'll end my response to this book by noting that the description of Process Coaching (pp.143-156) strongly resembles gestalt psychotherapy. This is a particularly new age approach that was probably to be expected in this book. As the authors pronounced "it's the process that counts", I was hearing in my mind "Life is a journey, Grasshopper!"
While there was valuable content to be found in this book, I found it to be morally and spiritually blind.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Co-Active Coaching - Very Helpful, 2009-10-24
I have tried several books written for coaches offering guidance, resources, tools, business strategies for coaches. However, sometimes I have been disappointed. This book does work for me and other colleagues in coaching because for over 1 1/2 years, I have used and continue to use this book extensively as: 1)it was required text for graduate-level Organizational Development degree course; 2) required text for my current coach certification training program (MentorCoach LLC); and 3) it is a helpful desktop reference with forms and a CD--good for both established and new coaches. My copy is well-worn and I intend to keep this book in my coaching toolkit.
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