Books for Clients and Coaches

Carson - Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

In this book, Rick Carson describes a low-key but tremendously effective approach to banishing the tenacious, self-defeating aspects of your personality. Read it and learn how to experiment playfully with new actions and attitudes and how to realize that your self-concept is just that--only a concept--which you can change anytime.  Carson gives simple exercises for tuning in to your true self and tuning out your gremlin.  Read more about this book ...

Miedaner - Coach Yourself to Success : 101 Tips from a Personal Coach for Reaching Your Goals at Work and in Life

In Coach Yourself to Success Talane Miedander shares the same core principles that she applies when personally coaching executives and international business leaders from companies such as AT+T, Chase Manhattan Bank, and Giorgio Armani. Miedaner shows readers how to tap into their natural motivation and leverage their strengths to achieve the results they desire.  Read more about this book ...

Richardson - Take Time for Your Life: A Seven-step Programme for Creating the Life You Want

This is a guide for anyone struggling to balance the demands of career and family, or who are simply looking to find peace of mind in a world of chaos. This seven-step programme contains advice, action plans and client success stories.  Read more about this book ...

Scott - Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success in Work and in Life, One Conversation at a Time

Susan Scott maintains that a single conversation can change the trajectory of a career, marriage or life.

Whether it's conversations with yourself, partner, colleagues, customers, family or friends. Fierce Conversations reveals how to: overcome barriers to meaningful conversations, express who you are and what you believe  in, confront tough issues with courage, confidence and sensitivity, overcome fear to get to the heart of the problem, inspire followers, attract believers and build visions that become reality, build authentic, strong relationships with colleagues, clients, friends and family, bring about real change through talking, encourage others to reveal their true opinions.

This book is packed with exercises and questionnaires to help you have the best conversations possible.   Read more about this book .....

Sher and Gottlieb - Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want

This human, practical program puts your vague yearnings and dreams to work for you - with concrete results. You’ll learn how to: discover your strengths and skills, turn your fears and negative feelings into positive tools, diagram the path to your goal, and map out target dates for meeting it. You will also learn to chart your progress day by day, create a support network of contacts and sources, and use a buddy system to keep you on track.  Read more about this book ...

Coaching Models and Strategies

Flaherty - Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others

Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others proposes rigorous methods of practice and self-observation in a relationship of mutual trust, respect and freedom of expression. It will probe you to rethink and possibly undo how you relate to your clients, your partner, your staff, your friends, and how you produce long-term excellent performance in yourself.  Read more about this book ...

Whitworth et Al - Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Towards Success in Work and Life

This book covers the four cornerstones of the Coaches Training Institute’s (CTI) model for coaching and discusses how to design a good coaching alliance. The final section of the book is called the Coach’s Toolkit. It is filled with tools, forms and checklists to serve both individual and corporate clients. In addition, the book comes with a CD with more information, examples of coaching conversations and printable forms.  Read more about this book ...

Whitmore - Coaching for Performance: Growing People, Performance and Purpose

This is an accessible and clearly written book which gives an invaluable introduction to the principles of coaching and the widely used GROW model.  Each of the elements of the GROW model are carefully delineated with supporting coaching questions.  This book is useful for all new coaches and managers using coaching skills in performance management - particularly, if they would like a model to complement outcomes based coaching models they may be aready be using in business or corporate coaching. Read more about this book ...

Leadership

Michael Useem - The Leadership Moment

Michael Useem, director of the Center for Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, has long used poignant real-life examples of people facing their "moments of truth"--regardless of the setting--to teach students how best to perform under the pressures they will face in the business world. Read more about this book ...

Arbinger Institute - Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box

The authors of Leadership and Self-Deception suggest that the key to leadership lies not in what we do, but in how we "are." They explore this compelling secret: Self-deception is the central player and trap underlying all leadership failures, relationship issues, and performance problems in organizations. Leaders who live in the box of self-deception are trapped: they cannot lead, no matter how hard they try and no matter how many skills and techniques they employ. With convincing examples, the authors show clearly how self-deception operates and how to overcome it.  Read more about this book ...

Drucker - The Daily Drucker: 366 Days of Insight and Motivation for Getting the Right Things Done

Management thinker Peter F. Drucker provides a thoughtful, day-by-day companion that offers his penetrating and practical wisdom. Amid the multiple pressures of our daily work lives, The Daily Drucker provides the inspiration and advice to meet the many challenges we face. With his trademark clarity, vision, and humanity, Drucker sets out his ideas on a broad swath of key topics, from time management, to innovation, to outsourcing, providing useful insights for each day of the year. Read more about this book ...

Krisco - Leadership and the Art of Conversation

Krisco covers everything managers need to converse more effectively, including: the basic tools and principles of effective conversations, sample scripts and real-life examples, making proper requests and dealing with nonresponses, generating and maintaining commitment, managing the flow of a conversation, applying the eight conversational principles.  Read more about this book ...

Jaworski - Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership

Sparked by a conversation about the lack of moral and ethical standards at high levels in business, this text explores the issues of leadership through the story of Jaworski's life. Jaworski  describes how he became dissatisfied with his successful life-style, he was a highly paid trial lawyer, and wanted to do something else.  He  came to believe in the importance of teaching people the importance of good leadership and eventually founded the American Leadership Forum which focused on developing leadership in American communities, businesses and administration. Read more about this book ...

Covey - Principle-centered Leadership

A guidebook to personal fulfilment and professional success through "principle-centered leadership" based on timeless principles - showing how goals of excellence and total quality express an innate human need for progress in personal and organizational life.  Read more about this book ...

Positive Psychology

Glasser - Choice Theory: A New Psychology of Personal Freedom

Choice theory sees conscious or unconscious desire for external control as the main problem in the four major personal relationships: husband-wife, parent-child, teacher-student, and manager-worker. If you think you can control others, it counsels, you are in for trouble, for the only person you can control is yourself.  Combining choice theory and reality therapy in his practice, Glasser has been able to shorten the durations of his treatment programs substantially. As he presents them here, his theories and approaches can be applied in education and business as well as for self-help.  Read more about this book ....