Coaching - What Really Works

Jenny Rogers

• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781529756814
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Self Improvement

This is your essential companion to being a coach. Author Jenny Rogers distillsher decades of experience to guide you through the challenges and pitfalls, joys and rewards, and dos and don'ts of coaching. Whether you are a qualified coach many years into practice, or a trainee moving into your first placement, the book provides a treasure trove of practical strategies and skills, theories and concepts that will enhance your practice. It captures what it takes to be a successful coach, and will support and inspire you to become a more confident, self-reflective practitioner.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• About the Author
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Making Sure That You Have a Real Client
• 2 Drawing Those Boundaries
• 3 Negotiating the Confidentiality Maze
• 4 Listening for the Client's Boundaries
• 5 Staying Within Your Areas of Competence
• 6 Breaking the Boundaries
• 7 Faking it is Not Making it
• 8 Switching Off Judgement
• 9 Looking Openly at the Coach–Client Relationship
• 10 Being Authentic
• 11 Exploring the Backstory
• 12 Understanding Attachment
• 13 Becoming Trauma-aware
• 14 Avoiding the Lure of Rescuing
• 15 Working with Rescuers
• 16 Coaching the Perfectionist
• 17 Getting Away from Endless Intellectualising
• 18 Using Psychometrics Wisely
• 19 Giving Feedback – Carefully
• 20 Collecting Bespoke Feedback for Clients
• 21 Understanding That Change Isn't as Easy as It May Look
• 22 Working with Loss
• 23 Coaching through Crisis
• 24 Working on Life Purpose
• 25 Putting Away the Toolbox
• 26 Understanding the Challenges of Becoming a Coach
• 27 Continuing to Learn, Staying Connected
• 28 Remembering That You Are Vulnerable Too
• 29 Getting a Supervisor
• Conclusion
• Further Reading
• Index