COVER -- ENDORSEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF TABLES -- PREFACE -- FOREWORD TO THE SECOND EDITION -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CHAPTER ONE About this book -- CHAPTER TWO The business coaching process -- CHAPTER THREE The coaching conversation -- CHAPTER FOUR Working with question frameworks -- CHAPTER FIVE Exploring and understanding coaching models -- CHAPTER SIX Diversity, culture and gender -- CHAPTER SEVEN Existential and experiential learning issues -- CHAPTER EIGHT Supervision, contracting and ethical concerns -- CHAPTER NINE Developing a body of knowledge- coaching research -- CHAPTER TEN Integration and synthesis -- APPENDIX COMPETENCES IN BUSINESS COACHING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.

'You simply must read this book if you are serious about being a top-notch business coach. It is an excellent guide to best practices based on clear theory, experience and business wisdom.'- Carol Kauffman PhD, co-founder and Director of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Initiative at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice. 'This is an extraordinarily thorough book. It covers a great range of practical guidance on matters that will concern the new coach [and] addresses a wide range of approaches to coaching while remaining firmly embedded in an experiential learning tradition.'- David Megginson, Professor of Human Resource Development, Sheffield Hallam University, UK.

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