Infinitum Leadership: Unlock Your Potential

Matt Somers's  Coaching at Work  guides the implementation of coaching principles in organizations. The book explores a coaching model emphasizing  awareness, responsibility, and trust  to improve employee performance. Somers examines various work contexts, including sales, presentations, and personal organization, illustrating how coaching techniques can enhance performance and address common...

High-Performance Coaching for Managers details a model for high-performance coaching, focusing on improving employee job performance through a structured, step-by-step process. The authors present a framework encompassing needs assessment, gap analysis, root cause identification, solution generation, implementation planning, and evaluation. Rothwell and Bakhshandeh emphasize building rapport with...

This research article proposes a new theory of team coaching, emphasizing  three key features :  coaching functions  (motivational, consultative, educational) focused on task performance,  optimal timing  of interventions (beginnings, midpoints, ends of task cycles), and  contextual conditions  (unconstrained processes, well-designed teams). Wageman argues that effective team coaching hinges on al...

Co-Active Coaching , outlines a model for transformative conversations. It emphasizes the four cornerstones of the model: listening, intuition, curiosity, and a focus on the whole person. The book details coaching skills, contexts, and principles—fulfillment, balance, and process—to foster empowered conversations and positive change in both personal and professional settings. The authors, renowned...

Jennifer Britton's  From One to Many: Best Practices for Team and Group Coaching   presents case studies illustrating various team coaching interventions. The book emphasizes a comprehensive approach involving leaders, management teams, and the organization.  Several successful case studies are detailed , highlighting improved financial results, enhanced collaboration, and increased employee engag...

Marcia Reynolds's   Breakthrough Coaching  guides coaching techniques focused on creating transformative "lightbulb moments" in coaching conversations. The book details a  five-part program  covering mindset, client focus, outcome clarification, addressing limiting beliefs, and turning insights into commitments.  Emphasis is placed on  cultivating psychological safety, using sensory...

Marcia Reynolds's  Coach the Person, Not the Problem  provides a guide to reflective inquiry, a powerful coaching method. The book emphasizes coaching individuals' thinking and behaviour rather than directly solving their problems. Reynolds details five essential coaching practices:  focus ,  active replay ,  brain hacking ,  goaltending , and  new and next . She also addresses common misc...

Doug Silsbee's  Presence-Based Coaching  provides a practical framework for cultivating self-generative leaders. The book emphasizes the importance of a coach's presence, achieved through mindful practices engaging mind, body, and heart, to facilitate lasting client development. Silsbee offers specific coaching models and techniques, including self-observation and generative practices, to...

Coaching with the Brain in Mind  is a book that explores the intersection of coaching and neuroscience. The authors explore coaching's theoretical underpinnings, drawing from various philosophical and social science perspectives while grounding their approach in contemporary neuroscience. They examine how understanding brain function, including neuroplasticity and emotional processing, can enh...

Stelter's  A Guide to Third Generation Coaching  details a narrative-collaborative approach to coaching. The author advocates for a less goal-oriented, more in-depth, and sustainable coaching model that emphasizes the co-creation of meaning through dialogue. Stelter explores relevant theories, including social constructionism, positive psychology, and phenomenology, to support this approach. S...

This dissertation by Ruud Koopman examines coaching and mentoring of entrepreneurs. It investigates the historical development of these practices, analyzes how they are defined and used in research, explores the gap between intended and experienced support, and proposes a "Soft Support Model" to improve the education and training of entrepreneurs' hard and soft skills. The study uses...

James Flaherty's   Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others  is a guide to coaching practices emphasizing a  holistic approach beyond simple techniques. The book utilizes  models and frameworks  to understand human behaviour and the coaching process but cautions against the rigid application, advocating  pragmatism and adaptability . It stresses the importance of  building strong client relation...

Richard Strozzi-Heckler's   The Art of Somatic Coaching  explores a body-centred approach to coaching, emphasizing embodied presence and self-cultivation for personal and societal transformation. The book critiques traditional rationalistic views of the mind-body split, arguing for a unified approach that integrates physical sensations, emotions, and spirituality. It details a four-stage metho...

Narrative Coaching details a method integrating ancient wisdom, social science, and neuroscience. It offers a comprehensive framework for personal transformation, using clients' stories to focus on desired narratives and mindful presence. Drake explores the model's theoretical underpinnings, practical applications, and tools like pivoting and the Narrative Diamond, emphasizing the coach&#3...

This book details Codevelopment Action Learning (CAL), a structured, collaborative business learning method. CAL uses a seven-step process to foster teamwork, innovation, and skill development among participants . The book highlights testimonials supporting CAL's effectiveness, outlines the method's components, and provides case studies showcasing successful implementations across various...

Elena Aguilar's   Coaching for Equity  is a guide for educational leaders committed to social justice. The book uses a  transformational coaching model  to help educators address systemic inequities. It focuses on improving conversations and building trusting relationships. Aguilar emphasizes the importance of  self-awareness ,  emotional intelligence , and understanding one's own  identity marker...

This book explores diverse coaching approaches across various cultures and contexts.  It examines the impact of cultural values, communication styles, and social identities on coaching effectiveness.  The text includes case studies illustrating challenges and successful strategies in different countries, including Brazil, China, South Africa, and the Arab world. Specific attention is given to coac...

Philippe Rosinski's   Coaching Across Cultures  explores the intersection of coaching methodologies and cultural differences. The book presents a  Cultural Orientations Framework  to help coaches understand and leverage cultural variations in communication, power dynamics, and time management. It emphasizes a  global coaching process , integrating personal and organizational goals with broader...

Relational Team Coaching explores team dynamics through various theoretical lenses, including Gestalt psychology and systems psychodynamics. It emphasizes relational aspects and the importance of context. It offers practical models and techniques for team coaches to facilitate reflection, address conflict, and foster effective teamwork. The authors highlight the significance of contracting, handli...

The Heart of Coaching Supervision  is a book exploring various aspects of coaching supervision.  Expert contributors  offer diverse perspectives on the practice, including the importance of  self-resourcing ,  diversity and inclusion , and  reflective practices  like journaling and the  Thinking Environment .  The book features  case studies  illustrating practical applications and addresses the ...

The Heart of Coaching is  a book advocating transformational coaching as a crucial leadership skill for creating high-performance cultures. It emphasizes a shift from traditional command-and-control management to a coaching approach that fosters employee empowerment, collaboration, and mutual accountability. The book details a transformational coaching methodology involving feedback, dialogue, and...

Mary Beth O'Neill's book,  Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart ,details a systems approach to executive coaching. O'Neill, an experienced executive coach, shares her methodology, emphasizing building a strong "signature presence" in the coach and fostering client responsibility for achieving business results. The book explores concepts like interactional force fields a...

Peter Hawkins' book  Creating a Coaching Culture  explores how organizations can integrate coaching into their overall strategy and operations to improve performance and create shared value. The book outlines a seven-step model for building a coaching culture. It starts by establishing a panel of external coaches, progressing to embedding coaching in HR processes, and ultimately making coachin...

A s explored in Hawkins and Turner's book, systemic coaching  moves beyond individual-focused approaches  to encompass the broader organizational and ecological contexts influencing the coachee. The authors advocate for a  revolution in coaching practices , emphasizing  multi-stakeholder engagement  and  ethical considerations  in achieving sustainable change. Systemic Coaching  presents vario...

Marilee Adams'  Change Your Questions, Change Your Life  details a coaching program centred around "Question Thinking" (QT). The book uses a fictional narrative to illustrate how recognizing and shifting between "Learner" and "Judger" mindsets through specific questioning techniques can improve personal and professional results. Change Your Questions includes a fo...