Becoming a Coach

The Essential ICF Guide
Third Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-3-032-30145-1
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 315 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

The third edition of this essential guide equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional coach. It encourages you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the International Coaching Federation's (ICF) Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, it ensures that your practice is well-informed by evidence and is up to the highest professional standards. The book also helps you as you undertake any coaching training program, deepening your understanding of the core skills to be a coach and broadening your thinking about these can be applied with real clients in your own coaching practice. What's new in this edition: Three new chapters, with critical updates to the rest of the chapters to match the latest ICF competency guidelines.

Praise for the book
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 - Thinkers 50 #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. Becoming a Coach 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

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Coaching, Training, Supervision
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Coaching, Training, Supervision

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section 1: Setting the Scene.- The Journey Toward Maturity.- What is Coaching?.- Who am I?.- Who are my Clients?.- Section 2: Developing Core Coaching Competencies.- Introduction to the ICF Core Competency Model.- Foundation Domain, Competency 1: Demonstrates Ethical Practice.- Foundation Domain, Competency 2: Embodies a Coaching Mindset.- Co-Creating the Relationship Domain, Competency 3: Co-Creating the Relationship Domain, Competency 3.- Co-Creating the Relationship Domain, Competency 4.- Cultivates Trust and Safety.- Co-Creating the Relationship Domain, Competency 5: Maintains Presence.- Communicating Effectively Domain, Competency 6: Listens Actively.- Communicating Effectively Domain, Competency 7: Evokes Awareness.- Cultivating Learning and Growth Domain, Competency 8: Facilitates Client Growth.- Section 3: Approaches to Coaching.- The Universal Eclectic Coaching Approach.- Behavioral Approach and the GROW model.- Humanistic Approach and the Time to Think Model.-  Cognitive-Behavioral Approach and ABCDEF Model.- Gestalt Approach and Chairwork.- Solution-Focused Approach and the OSKAR Model.- Systemic Approach and Force Field Model.- Psychodynamic Coaching and Transference.- Integration.- Coaching Practice.- Ethical Practice.- Contracting with Clients.- Taking and Managing Coaching Notes.- Maintaining Presence Through Mindfulness.- Intersessional Activities.- Metaphors in coaching.- Metaphors in coaching.- Section 5: Developing Your Practice.- Personal Development Plans.- Continuing Professional Development.- Supervision.- Reflective Practice.- Mentor Coaching.- Performance Evaluation and the ICF Credentialing Exam.- Progressing Your Coaching Skills.- Section 6: Tools and Techniques.- Coaching Tools and Techniques.

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan Passmore is an award-winning and internationally respected chartered psychologist. He has written or edited over 40 books including ‘The Coaches Handbook’ and ‘The Coaching Buyers Handbook’ and ‘Coaching Tools’, 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.