There are countless Leadership 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.
- Leadership Coaching: The Disciplines, Skills, and Heart of a Christian Coach (2005)
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever (2016)
- Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership (2017)
- Conscious Coaching: The Art and Science of Building Buy-In (2017)
- Coaching for Performance Fifth Edition: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership UPDATED 25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (2017)
- Coaching Questions: A Coach’s Guide to Powerful Asking Skills (2008)
- Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations (2014)
- The Art of Executive Coaching: Secrets to Unlock Leadership Performance (2018)
- Christian Life Coaching Handbook: Calling and Destiny Discovery Tools for Christian Life Coaching (2009)
- Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Life (2016)
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Coaching for Excellence (2008)
- Coaching a Season of Significance (2009)
Leadership Coaching: The Disciplines, Skills, and Heart of a Christian Coach (2005)
Leadership Coaching is an essential tool for anyone who wants to learn to coach or improve their coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that bring coaching techniques to life. Part I is an in-depth look at how coaching fits with the purposes of God.
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.
Leadership Team Coaching: Developing Collective Transformational Leadership (2017)
Organizations are most effective when the teams responsible for their success function to the best of their ability. When the relationships within the team work well and all members have a clear focus, the team is able to achieve goals more easily. is a roadmap for those who have the responsibility of developing a leadership team.
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. People are the ultimate performance variable, and understanding how to effectively blend knowledge of proper training with the nuances of human behavior is integral to helping athletes achieve their ultimate goals.
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.
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.
Unlocking Potential: 7 Coaching Skills That Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations (2014)
To get the best from your employees, you need to be more than a manager. You need to be a coach.You’re a leader because you possess expertise in your field. You have the training and experience. You understand your business…but can you fully motivate and engage your team?Michael K.
The Art of Executive Coaching: Secrets to Unlock Leadership Performance (2018)
As businesses become more complex, they tend to lean on their high performers to fend off competitors, innovate, and pivot to unexplored markets. But who do these executives and leaders turn to when they need to refine their own skills? Executive coaches. In The Art of Executive Coaching, Dr. Nadine Greiner takes you behind the scenes with nine stories of executive coach Alice Well and her clients.
Christian Life Coaching Handbook: Calling and Destiny Discovery Tools for Christian Life Coaching (2009)
Coach life purpose discovery with this practical, in-depth look at the tools and techniques of Christian life coaching. This sequel to the acclaimed book “Leadership Coaching” is filled with sample coaching dialogs, real-life examples, practical models, and over 60 formal destiny discovery exercises, all from a master coach trainer.
Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Life (2016)
Drawing on decades of research and experience as a coach and consultant, Adams uses a highly instructive and entertaining story that illustrates how to quickly recognize any undermining questions that pop into your mind–or out of your mouth—and reframe them to achieve amazingly positive and practical results. The book’s informative Choice Map helps guide you through this Question Thinking process. The result?
The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Coaching for Excellence (2008)
The most effective way for companies to achieve goals is by energizing their most important asset: their staff. From the executive suite to the assembly line, each staff person is a member of a team. However, keeping that team motivated is no easy task?until now with this powerful model of coaching outlined by a master coach. In any workplace, large or small, this program motivates?for power, growth, and success.
Coaching a Season of Significance (2009)
Coaching a Season of Significance was written by a soccer coach for soccer coaches, however, many of the ideas can be utilized by any coach for any sport. The book takes you from the beginning of the season, organization, setting goals, challenges along the way, to the conclusion of the season with a banquet.
Best Leadership Coaching Books You Should Enjoy
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 leadership 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.
Transformational Coaching for Effective Leadership
Author(s): Behnam Bakhshandeh, William J. Rothwell, Sohel M. Imroz, Farhan Sadique
ID: 3625730, Publisher: Routledge/Productivity Press, Year: 2023, Size: 19 Mb, Format: pdf
Leadership team coaching in practice : case studies on creating highly effective teams
Author(s): Peter Hawkins (editor)
ID: 3232222, Publisher: , Year: 2022, Size: 32 Mb, Format: pdf
Coaching Psychology: Catalyzing Excellence in Organizational Leadership
Author(s): Vicki V. Vandaveer, Michael H. Frisch
ID: 3523707, Publisher: American Psychological Association, Year: 2022, Size: 3 Mb, Format: pdf
Please note that this booklist is not definite. Some books are truly record-breakers according to Chicago Tribune, others are drafted by unknown writers. On top of that, you can always find additional tutorials and courses on Coursera, Udemy or edX, for example. Are there any other relevant links you could recommend? Leave a comment if you have any feedback on the list.