1st Edition

Coaching from A to Z and back again 52 Ideas, tools and models for great coaching conversations

By Bob Thomson Copyright 2023
    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    276 Pages
    by Routledge

    Written by an experienced coach, mentor and mediator, this book is perfect for developing your coaching skills by drawing on ideas, tools and models to help you engage in effective coaching conversations.

    It takes ideas from a variety of approaches to coaching and explores issues such as ethics, coaching as a line manager, boundaries and qualifications/accreditation. It summarises key ideas from the literature on management, leadership, psychology and personal effectiveness, as well as coaching.

    Written in 52 short accessible chapters from A to Z and back again, it is a clear and engaging guide that can be read from beginning to end, or dipped in to as appropriate. Critical questions throughout help the reader  to reflect on their own knowledge and apply it to their work or studies.  This book is ideal for students on coaching programmes, people working as a coach, consultants, learning and development practitioners, and managers at all levels from supervisor to director. 

    A

    Awareness + Responsibility = Performance

    ABCDE model. CBC and Acceptance and commitment coaching

    B

    Boundaries

    Being a coach

     C

    Culture

    Contracting and confidentiality

    D

    Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There

    Debate and dialogue

     E

    Emotional intelligence

    Ethics

     F

    Feedback

    Facilitation

    G

    GROW model

    Growing People

     H

    How to Coach How not to coach

     I

    The inner game of coaching

    Impostor syndrome

    Judgement Journey

    Kolb learning cycle Kantor’s languages. Meetings

     L

    Listening

    Letting go

     M

    Mentoring

    Managing people – coaching as a line manager

     N

    Note taking and keeping Neuroscience and the Chimp Paradox

    O

    I’m OK, You’re OK

    Objectives, obstacles, options and outcomes

    P 

    Playing back

    Psychometrics

     Q

    Questioning

    Qualifications and accreditation

    R

    Coaching as a relationship

    Rich pictures (and other tools?)

     S

    Supervision

    Solution-focused coaching

     T

    Teams

    Time management

    U

    Understanding Yourself and Others

    Use of self

     V

    Voicing

    Values in Action. Positive Psychology

    W

    Writing

    Why?

    X 

    Xtraverts and Introverts

    Xploring metaphors

    Y

    Theory Y and Theory X

    Your own practice

    Z

    Zoom

    Zone of proximal development

    Biography

    Bob Thomson is a Professor at Warwick Business School, an experienced and accredited coach and supervisor of coaching, and a workplace mediator. He collaborated with the University of Warwick Wellbeing Services team to deliver a series of webinars to help line managers support their staff during the Covid-19 pandemic. He has worked as a volunteer counsellor and as a Samaritan. He is the author of a number of books on coaching and learning from experience.

    He was previously Leadership Development Manager at National Grid Transco. Before moving into coaching and management development he worked as an economist for eleven years with British Steel and ICI. Bob has degrees in maths, in economics and in management learning. He also has Certificates in counselling, coaching, supervision, and mediation.