Psychology of Coaching

Contents: 1. Coaching psychology guide for making lasting and rewarding changes. 2. Psychology of coaching. 3. Personal coaching as a positive intervention. 4. Alliance coaching: psychology and sustainable infrastructure development. 5. The seven secrets of successful coaches: how to unlock and unleash. 6. New ideas for high performance coaches. 7. What is effective coaching and mentoring at work. 8. Creating the environment for coaching. 9. Coaching to the human soul ontological coaching and deep change. 10. Personal coaching: a model for effective learning. 11. How to implement in effective coaching strategy. 12. The practice of coaching: exploring alternatives to therapy for counseling. 13. Towards a psychology of coaching. 14. Positive psychology: the science at the heart of coaching. 15. Ontology: a professional basis for professional coaching. Bibliography. Index.

Coaching refers to the activity of a coach in developing the abilities of a coachee. Coaching tends to focus on an existing issue from which to move away or a specific outcome that the individual wishes to achieve move towards. In both cases, the coach aims to stimulate the coachee to uncover innate knowledge so they can achieve a sustainable result. Coaches will normally check that the specific learning can be successfully re-applied by the coachee, to deal with other issues in the future. The structure and methodologies of coaching are very numerous with one unifying feature, coaching approaches are predominantly facilitating in style, see facilitation; that is to say that the coach is mainly asking questions and challenging the coachee to learn from their own resources. The coaching process is underpinned by established trust in the coachee. Coaching is differentiated from therapeutic and counselling diciplines in that the issues and outcomes have contexts which are important in the present and with aims for the future these do not have emotional aetiology, or baggage, from the past-in other words, the coachee has the resources they need to make reasoned progress at the time that they seek coaching." (jacket)