Description
'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
About the Author
Sunny Stout Rostron is a director of the Manthano Institute of Learning (Pty) Ltd and a founding faculty member of The Coaching Centre (TCC) in Cape Town. She is also founding chair of the Working Group on a Research Agenda for Development of the Field within the Global Convention on Coaching, research advisor to the Institute of Coaching at Harvard and Founding President of the professional association Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA). She has developed a range of international programmes in the corporate, legal and education fields, and is the author of six books including 'Accelerating Performance: Powerful New Techniques to Develop People' and 'Managing Training'
Reviews
'This book is an important milestone in the coaching literature. Coaching has long needed a comprehensive guide and reference book, and now it has one.'- Sir John Whitmore, PhD, author of Coaching for Performance'I am struck by the incredible generosity of this book. A rich and thorough blend of theoretical understanding and practical wisdom, delivered in a way that is highly accessible and of considerable value to experienced and inexperienced business coaches alike. It is a very welcome addition to my library.'- Gordon Spence, PhD, MAPS, leading Australian coaching psychologist, lecturer, and Program Director of the Master of Business Coaching at Sydney Business School at the University of Wollongong'The world of business coaching can rejoice - the book we have been wanting and needing is here. This book harnesses the vast and complex world of excellence in coaching and offers it to us digestibly, delectably, and with impressively accessible scholarship.'- Nancy Kline, President of Time To Think, Inc., and author of Time To Think: Listening To Ignite The Human Mind and More Time To Think: A Way Of Being In The World
Book Information
ISBN 9781782200970
Author Sunny Stout-Rostron
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Karnac Books
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
About the Author
Sunny Stout Rostron is a director of the Manthano Institute of Learning (Pty) Ltd and a founding faculty member of The Coaching Centre (TCC) in Cape Town. She is also founding chair of the Working Group on a Research Agenda for Development of the Field within the Global Convention on Coaching, research advisor to the Institute of Coaching at Harvard and Founding President of the professional association Coaches and Mentors of South Africa (COMENSA). She has developed a range of international programmes in the corporate, legal and education fields, and is the author of six books including 'Accelerating Performance: Powerful New Techniques to Develop People' and 'Managing Training'
Reviews
'This book is an important milestone in the coaching literature. Coaching has long needed a comprehensive guide and reference book, and now it has one.'- Sir John Whitmore, PhD, author of Coaching for Performance'I am struck by the incredible generosity of this book. A rich and thorough blend of theoretical understanding and practical wisdom, delivered in a way that is highly accessible and of considerable value to experienced and inexperienced business coaches alike. It is a very welcome addition to my library.'- Gordon Spence, PhD, MAPS, leading Australian coaching psychologist, lecturer, and Program Director of the Master of Business Coaching at Sydney Business School at the University of Wollongong'The world of business coaching can rejoice - the book we have been wanting and needing is here. This book harnesses the vast and complex world of excellence in coaching and offers it to us digestibly, delectably, and with impressively accessible scholarship.'- Nancy Kline, President of Time To Think, Inc., and author of Time To Think: Listening To Ignite The Human Mind and More Time To Think: A Way Of Being In The World
Book Information
ISBN 9781782200970
Author Sunny Stout-Rostron
Format Paperback
Page Count 416
Imprint Karnac Books
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
