Business Coaching Mentoring

Top leadership coach Marcia Reynolds offers a model for using the Discomfort Zone - the moment when the mind is most open to learning - to prompt people to think through problems, see situations more strategically, and transcend their limitations. Drawing on recent discoveries in the neuroscience of learning, Reynolds shows how to ask the kinds of questions that short-circuit the brain’s defense mechanisms and habitual thought patterns.

Being a life coach is a fulfilling way to make money doing what you love, while making a difference! But, what most life coaches don’t realize when they get into it is that life coaching is a BUSINESS, not a job (usually). The truth is that most life coaches are not successful. Even when they find the perfect niche and master the art of getting clients, they can only reach a certain level of success, and income, by meeting one-on-one with clients. There is only so much time in a day, some of which is spent on marketing and other business-related-stuff.

The Mentoring Manual is based on methods developed—and proven—in business. This highly practical book will show you how mentoring works, take you step-by-step through everything you need to know and do, and show you how both parties can get the best from the relationship. Get the most from mentoring: help your mentee, develop your skills, and make a positive difference.

James King draws on his 15 years of experience as a trusted advisor to some of the world's most elite and exclusive organizations, combined with cutting-edge scientific research, to reveal the foundational principles that are proven to drive elite performance. Accelerating Excellence will revolutionize the way you perceive excellence, potential, and talent, crushing some of the most entrenched assumptions along the way. You will emerge inspired about the possibility that exists before you, enriched with purpose, structure, and direction.

This book has quickly become the gold standard for improving focus, attention, and concentration. It goes beyond traditional books and advice of “remove distractions” or "pomodoro technique" by offering unprecedented insight into how your mind and body create concentration, and more importantly, how and why they take it away.

Group and Team Coaching offers a new perspective on the "secret life of groups", the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate in groups and teams. Updated with new research and including a wealth of vignettes and case studies, it will be essential listening for coaches who work with groups and teams as well as leaders commissioning coaching; the second edition features new guidance for leaders and managers, an updated introduction and new expanded practical sections on working with teams, working on the phone.

To create a more sustainable transformation in the people you coach, you need to start with your own mindset. As a coach, you know you can’t change what you do, unless you alter what you believe first. By shedding the ineffective scripts, trappings and beliefs that a lifetime of personal interactions, professional training and even your parents have taught you, you can reset your thinking to a beginner’s mentality and so begin a fulfilling and exciting journey to coaching mastery.

Dan Foxx has spent more than 50,000 hours face-to-face with over 4,500 top execs from America’s finest companies, from high-flying high techs to promising start-ups. With pressure from boards of directors and investors to deliver dollars and high-ticket IPOs and with expectations from direct reports to make the savvy decisions, these CEOs bare all behind closed doors when their leadership chops are on the line.

One-on-one coaching can transform both your career and personal life. Whether you want to be successful at work, deepen your relationships with the people who matter most, or break free from unproductive patterns, working with a coach can help you create the future you've always wanted.

Developing Coaching Skills is essential listening for aspiring and practicing coaches, as well as for leaders and students of coaching. Learn what effective coaching really means, make coaching a habit, and bring out the best in other people!

People believe that working hard is enough to have success without realizing they need to create personal visibility for themselves. A pivotal feedback conversation Susan M. Barber had with a mentor led her to find a way to create authentic visibility for herself. Barber created a successful process that helped her build visibility for herself, her teams, and now her clients. This process is broken down into easy-to-follow steps in her new book, The Visibility Factor, a guide to shape the visibility that you want for yourself and your career.

What if you can successfully coach anyone in 15, five, or even 60 seconds using one question? Sales Leadership makes delivering consistent, high-impact coaching easy. For busy, caring managers, this removes the pressure and misconception that, "Coaching is difficult, doesn't work, and I don't have time to coach." Since most managers don't know how to coach, they become part of the non-stop, problem-solving legion of frustrated Chief Problem Solvers who habitually do other's work, create dependency, and nourish the seed of mediocrity.

Are you looking to learn the core elements of coaching in order to help take your performance, and, where applicable, that of your team or others around you to the next level? Is your goal to coach in the areas of business, sport, personal development, or any other area of life? If so, this book will provide you with all the information you need!

Study after study confirms that career development is the single most powerful tool managers have for driving retention, engagement, productivity, and results. But most managers feel they just don't have time for it. This book offers a better way: frequent, short conversations with employees about themselves, their goals, and the business that can be integrated seamlessly into the normal course of business.

What are companies like Uber, IKEA, Belgo, and Eurostar doing that makes them so profitable? They know how to scale relationships. But online gurus are lying to you about scaling to hundreds of clients without creating an exceptional customer experience. Ben and I created this book with that in mind. When you feel like there is much more to be done in how you serve your clients, we’ve got you. For a long time, marketers--specifically in the online space--have been making bolder and bolder promises.

Coaching for Breakthrough Success is packed with stirring personal stories, life-changing case studies, crucial coaching conversations, exemplary coaching questions, and ready-to-use tools that equip you to achieve professional mastery in coaching.

Coaching and Mentoring for Success is a practical way for coaches and mentors to learn the basics they need to do their jobs professionally. If you want to become a more able coach/mentor, or help your team members to develop their skills, this audio book is the place to start. Although primarily aimed at people who are starting out in these roles, Coaching and Mentoring for Success contains tips and techniques that will be of interest for coaches or mentors operating at all levels.

Good coaching is a skill that requires a depth of understanding and plenty of practice if it is to deliver its astonishing potential. This extensively revised and expanded new audio edition of Coaching for Performance clearly explains the principles of coaching and illustrates them with examples of high performance from business and sport. It continues to follow the GROW sequence (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) and clarifies the process and practice of coaching.

New owner's manual for success! Rewrite the story of your life. How many times have you replayed the disappointing or hurtful moments from your life over and over in your head? Has it shaped who you are? Do you believe your own negative self-chatter? Do you think success is only for the lucky, educated, or connected? Do you long for something you believe you'll never have? If there's one book that will shift that for you, this is it.

Are you ready for your coaching to make a bigger impact? Do you want to enable teams to make a real difference to the world? The challenges faced by organizations everywhere can be solved through better collective leadership, collaboration, and systemic thinking. And, as a coach, you’re already aware of the huge role that coaching can play in accessing the intelligence and coordinated power that teams could be leveraging. Become an impactful team coach with a distinctive personal style that solves problems, creates change, and gets sustainable results.