Passmore / Sinclair Becoming a Coach

The Essential ICF Guide
2. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-3-031-55151-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 301 Seiten

This new and fully updated edition of the bestselling  brings this essential guide for ICF coaches up to date for 2024 and onwards. This book equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the ICF Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is well-informed by evidence and is up to the highest professional standards.

The book will also help you as you undertake any coaching training program, deepening your understanding of the core skills to be a coach and broadening your thinking as to how these can be applied with real clients in your own coaching practice.

Praise for the First Edition

" is the perfect place to start your coach development journey. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the issues in coaching and offers an essential guide to the new ICF coach competencies for new and developing coaches."

- Marshall Goldsmith - #1 Executive Coach for 10 years.

"Whether you are becoming a coach, or are a seasoned coach supervisor, mentor, trainer, or educator, this book is your vital companion. The authors bring decades of experience and research into one powerful resource. Grounded in evidence-based models, plus tools, activities, reflective exercises and more, this book is a must-read!” 

- Dr. Laura L. Hauser, MCC, MCEC | Training Director, Team Coaching Operating System® | Faculty, Fielding Graduate University coaching program | Executive Officer, GSAEC.org

"This is one of those rare books which has something for everyone. One of the most comprehensive guides to becoming a powerful coach which starts from the basics and takesus to the essentials of mastery. This book has embraced the complexity of coaching literature, approaches and tools. It has then structured and presented them in a fashion that brings together the chaos to a usable format. I can safely say that this book would offer a new idea, approach or perspective even to the most experienced of coaches."

- Shweta Handa Gupta, MCC, Change Leadership Coach, QuadraBrain® Transformation Solutions, Global ICF Young Leader Award Recipient, 2018   “In this crowded confusing profession called coaching, Sinclair and Passmore have written the guidebook that clears the fog for coaches on their path to coaching excellence. clarifies the distinction of coaching and why it is so effective, provides specific practices for embodying a coaching mindset, and is full of tools that will elevate your coaching impact. No matter where you are on your journey, this book will give you a bright light to follow.”

- Dr. Marcia Reynolds, MCC, ICF Global Board Past Chair, Author of

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Passmore, Jonathan

Sinclair, Tracy

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1.- What is coaching.- Who am I?.-  Understanding clients.- Coach maturity.- Section 2: Developing core coaching competences.-  Ethics & professional conduct (competency 1).- Contracting (competency 2).- Relationship (competency 3).- Presence (competency 4).- Active listening (competency 5).- Powerful questions (competency 6).- Direct communication (competency 7).- Creating awareness (competency 8).- Moving to action (competency 9, 10 & 11).- Integrating the behaviors (Summary).- Section 3: Approaches to coaching.-  The Henley Eclectic Model.- Behavioural approach and the GROW model.- Humanistic approach & the Time to think model.- Cognitive behavioural approach and ABCDE model.- Systemic approach.-  Gestalt approach.- Solution Focused approach.-  Psychodynamic.-  Neuroscience Integration.- Tools and techniques .- Coaching tools.- A series of short chapters (15-20) each describing a different tool and how the tool might be used in coaching practice.- Developing your coaching practice A series of short chapters on how to reflective practice, supervision and continuous professional development.- Contracting with clients (multi-party contracts – psychological contract, organizational coaching and individual contract).-  Maintaining an ethical approach (Ethical decision making & referrals).- Continuous professional development (coach mentoring, recorded sessions and feedback, reading, journaling).-  Supervision (what is supervision and how can it help your practice).-  Developing your business (how to develop your coaching business).

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Passmore is an award-winning and internationally respected chartered psychologist. He has written or edited over 40 books including ‘ and ‘’ and ‘, three volumes. His books have been translated into multiple languages. He has also written over 250 scientific papers and book chapters. He holds five degrees, ICF and EMCC coach credentials and is a professor at Henley Business School’s Centre for Coaching, which delivers post-graduate coach training. He is also Senior Vice President at EZRA (LHH), a global digital coaching provider. He continues to coach and provide supervision to coaches in training.

Tracy Sinclair was the 2020 Global President of the ICF and a trained coach mentor. She has practiced as a coach for 15 years and now leads a coaching, coach mentor, and coach training business helping clients and coaches in their development journeys. She has strong connections across the globe with ICF chapters and continues to speak at events across the world.