There are countless Coaching courses, tutorials, articles available online, but for some, having a book is still a necessity to learn. This is an up-to-date list of recommended books.
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (2016)
- Coaching for Performance Fifth Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership UPDATED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (2017)
- Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In (2017)
- Co-Active Coaching, Fourth Edition: The proven framework for transformative conversations at work and in life (2018)
- Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills (2008)
- Professional Coaching Competencies: The Complete Guide (2018)
- The Art of Coaching Teams: Building Resilient Communities that Transform Schools (2016)
- Successful Coaching (2012)
- Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change – Second Edition (2014)
- The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation (2013)
- Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) (2010)
- Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives (2011)
- The Book Of Coaching: For Extraordinary Coaches (2017)
- Coaching Better Every Season: A Year-Round System for Athlete Development and Program Success (2016)
The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (2016)
In Michael Bungay Stanier's The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact. Drawing on years of experience training more than 10,000 busy managers from around the globe in practical, everyday coaching skills, Bungay Stanier reveals how to unlock your peoples' potential.
Coaching for Performance Fifth Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership UPDATED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (2017)
Coaching delivers high performance in you, your team, and your organization. An international bestseller, featuring the influential GROW model, this book is the founding text of the coaching profession. It explains why enabling people to bring the best out of themselves is the key to driving productivity, growth, and engagement. A meaningful coaching culture has the potential to transform the relationship between organizations and employees and to put both on the path to long-term success.
Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In (2017)
In the world of strength and conditioning, learning how to move others—not just physically, but also psychologically and emotionally—is paramount to getting the most out of them.
Co-Active Coaching, Fourth Edition: The proven framework for transformative conversations at work and in life (2018)
The book that changed the field of professional coaching forever. The wait is over! This is the new 4th edition of the cultural and business phenomenon that helped launch the professional practice of coaching!
Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills (2008)
The single most important skill in coaching is asking powerful questions. In this volume, master coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus joins with 12 other professional coaches to present dozens of valuable asking tools, models and exercises, then illustrates these coaching strategies with over 1,000 examples of penetrating questions.
Professional Coaching Competencies: The Complete Guide (2018)
Professional Coaching Competencies: The Complete Guide is an indispensable, comprehensive, hands-on guide to understanding and artfully applying the International Coach Federation professional coaching competencies.
The Art of Coaching Teams: Building Resilient Communities that Transform Schools (2016)
The Art of Coaching Teams is the manual you never received when you signed on to lead a team. Being a great teacher is one thing, but leading a team, or team development, is an entirely different dynamic. Your successes are public, but so are your failures—and there’s no specific rubric or curriculum to give you direction.
Successful Coaching (2012)
As America’s best-selling coaching text, Successful Coaching has helped over a million coaches develop their coaching philosophies; improve their communication, teaching, and management skills; and understand their responsibilities as a coach. The updated fourth edition of Successful Coaching offers students as well as new and veteran coaches a comprehensive guide to every aspect of coaching.
Wellness Coaching for Lasting Lifestyle Change – Second Edition (2014)
Guided by his long experience as a wellness coach, Dr. Arloski blends the wisdom of the wellness field with the proven processes of the coaching profession to bring us an easy-to-use training tool. The book is used throughout the world to train wellness coaches.
The Art of Coaching: Effective Strategies for School Transformation (2013)
This practical resource offers the foundational skills and tools needed by new coaching educators, as well as presenting an overview of the knowledge and theory base behind the practice. Established coaches will find numerous ways to deepen and refine their coaching practice. Principals and others who incorporate coaching strategies into their work will also find a wealth of resources.
Coaching Agile Teams: A Companion for ScrumMasters, Agile Coaches, and Project Managers in Transition (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Cohn)) (2010)
As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back.
Co-Active Coaching: Changing Business, Transforming Lives (2011)
THE FULLY REVISED THIRD EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT CHANGED THE COACHING FIELD FOREVER This third edition includes fresh coaching examples, the latest in coaching terminology and an expanded, web-based ‘Coach’s Toolkit’.
The Book Of Coaching: For Extraordinary Coaches (2017)
This book is for YOU The coach who has so much to give, you wake up thinking about how to contribute more. The coach who wants to make a difference in the world and build an abundant life and business in the process. The coach who wants to be more than good More than great This book is for the coach who wants to be truly extraordinary. This is not just a technical manual or a motivational manifesto. This is not a book with vague theories and philosophies.
Coaching Better Every Season: A Year-Round System for Athlete Development and Program Success (2016)
Maximize the development of your athletes and team throughout the year, and just maybe win a postseason title in the process. Coaching Better Every Season: A Year-Round System for Athlete Development and Program Success presents a blueprint for such success, detailing proven coaching methods and practices in preseason, in-season, postseason, and off-season. The Coach Doc, Dr.
Best Coaching Books Worth Your Attention
We highly recommend you to buy all paper or e-books in a legal way, for example, on Amazon. But sometimes it might be a need to dig deeper beyond the shiny book cover. Before making a purchase, you can visit resources like Library Genesis and download some coaching books mentioned below at your own risk. Once again, we do not host any illegal or copyrighted files, but simply give our visitors a choice and hope they will make a wise decision.
Coaching for high performance : how to develop exceptional results through coaching
Author(s): Sarah Cook.
ID: 1156318, Publisher: Books24x7.com, Year: [2005?], Size: 398 Kb, Format: pdf
Don’t Work Stupid, Coach Yourself: 40 Things Managers Won’t Tell You. A Step by Step Guide to Coach Yourself
Author(s): Mark Baggesen
ID: 2429513, Publisher: Independently Published, Year: 8 Apr 2019, Size: 181 Kb, Format: epub
The Completely Revised Handbook of Coaching: A Developmental Approach
Author(s): Pam McLean
ID: 2299964, Publisher: Jossey-Bass, Year: 23 July 2012, Size: 4 Mb, Format: epub
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are absolutely record-breakers according to Washington Post, others are written by unknown authors. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant resources you could recommend? Drop a comment if you have any feedback on the list.