Becoming an ICF Credentialed Coach aims to help professional coaches on their journey to mastery. Whether you are an ICF coach in training, preparing for your ACC assessment, progressing towards PCC, or getting ready for your MCC submission, this book is essential reading. The book includes for the first time the ICF BARS and Markers used by ICF assessors in marking ICF ACC, PCC and MCC submissions, along with coach assessors’ guidance on how coaches can demonstrate these competen...

As coaching continues to grow in popularity, supervision and mentor coaching have become the disciplines that protect quality, deepen mastery and sustain coaches. Becoming a Coaching Supervisor and Coach Mentor is a practical, evidence-informed guide to the ICF Supervision and Mentor Coach Competencies, translating standards into clear behaviours, reflective questions and session-ready processes.The book explores contracting, formative appraisal, ethics, difference and bou...

Outdoor coaching combines all the benefits of a reflective goal-based conversation, while engaging in a low-impact exercise and gaining all the benefits of being in a natural environment, from birdsong to sunshine. This book explains the why, what and how of Outdoor Coaching in this definitive practical guide.Jonathan and Ellie draw on their experiences of their epic Source to Sea journey along the River Thames. If you are a facilitator, trainer, coach or a manager, this book will g...

Ethical practice is the heart of good quality coaching. It is the foundation of trust, safety and professional credibility. Developing Ethical Maturity is a practical guide to the 2025 ICF Code of Ethics, translating values, principles and standards into clear choices coaches can apply in real client work. This essential guide explains how ethical conduct and the Core Competencies operate together. It provides the reader with a structured approach to working through grey areas and...

This new and fully updated edition of the bestselling Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide brings this essential guide for ICF coaches up to date for 2024 and onwards. This book equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the ICF Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your ...

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a widely recognised process for engaging people in organizational development and change management. Based on conversational practice, it is a particular way of asking questions, fostering relationships and increasing an organization's capacity for collaboration and change. It focuses on building organizations around what works, rather than trying to fix what doesn't, and acknowledges the contribution of individuals in increasing trust and organizational alignm...

How can you achieve coaching excellence? Use the latest research and insights from some of the biggest industry names in this fully revised fourth edition, which provides a diverse range of theory, tools and models for students and practicing coaches alike.Excellence in Coaching is a comprehensive guide presenting the latest cutting-edge thinking in the field of workplace coaching. Published with the Association for Coaching, this book cov...

This comprehensive volume offers ideas, examples, and guidance to help coaches develop skills in their coaching practice, specifically in the areas of health and wellbeing as they are experienced by their clients.The book also explores the growing importance of wellbeing coaching within the wider coaching world and the health sector. Starting with definitions of wellbeing and health coaching, then delving into health and wellbeing issues faced by clients, and tools for coaches alon...

This handbook looks at the Fourth Wave of coaching – ‘in’, ‘with’ and ‘for’ nature. It presents a comprehensive overview and practical set of emerging practices in coaching related to the environment, nature and the climate, and reflects a wider move towards outdoor and nature coaching as an antidote to the over-reliance on digital and AI technologies.This next book in the acclaimed Coaches’ Handbook Series brings together internationally respected coaching experts and pra...

How can you become the best team coach you can be? Written by highly experienced and award-winning authors and speakers, this book will help to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional team coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the Gold Standard for team coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is both well informed by evidenced...

What does it mean to be ethical as a coach? Just how ethical are you? How does ethics influence your coaching and how do you know if you are engaging in ethical practice? This important and eye-opening volume provides critical insight from the thought leaders in coaching across a full range of ethical issues.Presented in four parts, this new handbook works to guide the reader towards ethical maturity to strengthen their practice, though examination of theory and thought provoking p...

This comprehensive practitioner guide supports coaches in developing their understanding of digital technologies and how to work in ever-changing digital environments, and shows coaches how to craft their own practices to take advantage of working online.The practice of coaching is undergoing significant change, with technology widely embedded and used in professional coaching services today. Coaching practitioners worldwide are adapting to digital environments, and a host of new t...