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Coaching Skills is a popular text for coach training schools all over the world, brought to life with dozens of case studies and practical guidance, while also emphasizing the importance of underpinning psychological awareness and understanding. Substantially updated throughout, the latest edition has new material on coaching and the human brain, working with clients on their self-limiting beliefs, new models of understanding what coaching is and being a coach during the psychological stresses of a severe economic recession. Coaching Skills is a popular text for coach training schools all over the world, brought to life with dozens of case studies and practical guidance, while also emphasizing the importance of underpinning psychological awareness and understanding. This book will support you whether you are an experienced coach working with senior executives, or a beginner taking your first steps on the journey to becoming a master-practitioner. The book answers questions such as: •Are there really boundaries between coaching, therapy and training, or is it all more fluid than many people acknowledge? •Which tools and techniques pay dividends every time and which should you avoid? •What are the magic ingredients that determine whether the coach-client relationship works? •Why are goal-setting and questioning such important skills for any coach and how can you acquire them? •How as a coach can you work with clients to make truly transformational changes in their lives? “A straight-forward approach to the simple art of coaching conversations, while offering insight into the complexity and sophistication of coaching for those looking to take their practice to the next level.” Dr Jonathan Passmore

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Jenny has been teaching adults throughout her career, starting with 18 year olds in a College of Further education who didnt really want to be there and branching out to adult education and over the last sixteen years, management development and training other executive coaches. She has an international reputation as a coach, consultant and writer on learning and leadership issues. She is widely experienced as a consultant in organisational development and works as executive coach to many directors and chief executives in leading public and private sector organisations. As well as her work as a college lecturer, Jenny has also worked as a freelance journalist, commissioning editor and for twelve years as a BBC television producer where one of her projects was the 'discovery' of Delia Smith. She also ran the BBCs management training department for three years in the early nineteen nineties. Jenny has a keen interest in psychological assessment and her books on the MBTI Sixteen Personality Types and Influencing Others through the Sixteen Personality Types and on the FIRO-B (co-authored with Judy Waterman) sell well on both sides of the Atlantic. She is Series Editor for the Open University Press series Coaching in Practice.

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