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This book is the fourth in the coaching series with Kogan Page and
the Association for Coaching. In the first book in the series, Excellence
in Coaching: The industry guide, we explored coaching models and core
coaching concepts such as ethics, supervision and cross-cultural working.
That book has become one of the best-respected introductions to coaching,
which is a reflection of the high quality of the contributors who shared
their work in it. The book has now been through a series of reprints since
its first publication in 2006, and as a result we have worked to update
the book, with a second edition containing both updated material in the
existing chapters and several new chapters on new models, research and
evaluation. In the second book in the series, Psychometrics in Coaching, we
explored psychometrics and their use in coaching. The book aimed to
encourage coaches to take a broader view of their role and extend their
practice into a wider range of psychometrics. Such tools can be a useful
guide that to help coachees reflect on their own behaviour, personality
and abilities, as well as providing a language for a discussion about these
attributes, and how the coachee can change and develop to become more
effective in their role. The third book, Diversity in Coaching, applied a
similar approach to diversity, reviewing gender, national and cultural
differences, and how these differences may influence the coachee (and
coach) in the coaching relationship. |
