Best Practice In Performance Coaching

About the book

Performance coaching helps individuals and organizations achieve their maximum potential, tackle challenges and reach specific goals. It leads to personal and professional development and helps to create a work/life balance.

Best Practice in Performance Coaching is both an introduction for anyone thinking of becoming or hiring a coach - whether private or corporate - and a reference guide for experienced coaches. A practical guide to the ‘what’ and the ‘how’ of performance coaching, it covers all topics from the personal and executive angle and explains the structure of a coaching relationship. There is extensive guidance on coaching techniques, models and tools as well as advice on how to train as a coach, how to run a coaching practice and how to structure coaching sessions.

Complete with worksheets and exercises, evaluations and international case studies this is a thorough guide to performance coaching.



Praise and Reviews

“The best coaching starter kit I have come across to date.”

Sir John Whitmore

“Carol Wilson’s book makes a real contribution to the field of coaching. A practical, accurate and thorough guide for anyone involved in coaching. With insights into the best coaching tools and techniques, there are plenty of coaching nuggets, too! A must-read for professional coaches, internal coaches, or anyone entering this emerging profession.”

Katherine Tulpa, Chair and Co-founder, Association for Coaching

“Carol Wilson has managed to capture much of the best of good practice in this excellent primer on coaching, both in her review of coaching basics and the informed comment of some of the UK’s most experienced coaching authorities. The book’s value is enhanced by case studies illustrating a variety of coaching approaches.”

David Clutterbuck, co-founder of the European Mentoring Centre (now the European Mentoring and Coaching Council), and visiting professor at Sheffield Hallam University’s Mentoring and Coaching Research Group

“Even experienced coaches have difficulties in integrating the wide range of skills and processes necessary for successful performance coaching within organisations. For many it is not easy to integrate theory and practice with process… This book gives the reader valuable insights in a straightforward and practical fashion. If only more coaching texts were as useful, unpretentious and jargon-free!”

Dr Anthony Grant PhD, Director, Coaching Psychology Unit, University of Sydney

“Anyone who knows Carol knows she is a class act and this book will certainly re-enforce that opinion. What I particularly like is the pragmatic simplicity of her language used to explain her ideas, models and techniques which are obviously based on her successful practical experience. As a major player in the emerging UK coaching profession she clearly articulates the growing consensus on what constitutes best practice. This is a ‘must read book’ for those who prefer commonsense to the often rather pretentious over academic psychobabble that mark too many new contributions to the coaching professional literature.”

Eric Parsloe OTLG / Oxford School of Coaching and Mentoring.