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Super Coaching

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SuperCoaching is the definitive guide to the philosophy, methodology and application of coaching in business. Do you want to create the right environment for high performance, develop the self-awareness, relationships and skills to create every-day success and achieve positive outcomes in every interaction? If so, let two of the world’s best known coaches give you the toolkit.

Drawing upon the latest findings from the largest ever global study of high performance, SuperCoaching explains why coaching is essential in the modern business world of needing to create more success, at a faster pace, with less resource, more competition and constant uncertainty in a global marketplace. It shows how coaching is a vital ingredient for today’s leader and manager in order to get the best out of people. It also explains how to maximise performance, development and fulfilment through achieving measurable results in alignment with explicit business needs. Let SuperCoaching enable you to go beyond what you thought was possible.

About the authors

Graham Alexander, innovator and leading edge thinker, is the founder of business coaching in Europe. He started the Alexander Corporation in 1986, which grew to be Europe’s largest corporate coaching company and market leader. Graham is advisor to the Hudson Highland Center for High Performance in Chicago. More about Graham...

Ben Renshaw, a leader in wellbeing and performance is a director of the SuperCoaching programme and Success Intelligence. Ben is the author of six books, including Successful But Something Missing. Media credits include relationship coach for C4’s award-winning series Perfect Match. More about Ben...

Each of the ten chapters deals with an aspect of coaching, building upon each other to create a full picture of how to become a world-class coach.

1. Super Success (what is coaching?) presents a definition of coaching – an enabling process to increase performance, development and fulfilment. SuperCoaching differs from coaching in that it maximises performance, development and fulfilment through achieving measurable results in alignment with explicit business needs. A Super Coach differs from a coach in having the experience and capability to ensure value in every coaching interaction and in enabling people to go beyond what they thought was possible. This chapter discusses the core elements of SuperCoaching in order to build understanding for leaders, managers and coaches.

Sections: Valuing people, A unique relationship, An important conversation, Enabling people, Liberating talent, Realising potential, Achieving high performance, Raising awareness, Gaining insight, Creating commitment, Establishing meaning, Creating results and well-being, Coaching applications.

2. Super Times (why coaching now?) explores the drivers of the rise in popularity of coaching, why it is a vital feature of modern business life and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. It highlights the features of modern organisations including the importance of defining Success, maximising Performance, recruiting and retaining Talent and managing unpredictable Change. The features of modern life include: a crisis in Meaning, Family, Relationships, Health and Lifestyle.

3. Super Style (what’s the right approach?) helps to clarify the approach of non-directive coaching and explains the distinctions between coaching and other types of interpersonal activities including mentoring, counselling and training. It also explores how coaching fits within leadership and management.

Sections: Direction vs non-direction, Push vs pull, Tell vs ask.

4. Super Being (the essence of coaching) describes the essence of coaching and positions the coach’s quality of being as the foundation from which effective coaching emerges.

Sections: Self-awareness, Presence, Ego-less, Being non-judgmental, Being accepting, Being non-defensive, Being authentic, Being flexible, Being intention-led, Being an enabler, Having the right attitude, Being confident, Being comfortable with ambiguity.

5. Super Relationship (how to connect?) examines the component parts that make up successful coaching relationships and provides a blueprint for how to create high quality relationships in general.

Sections: Trust, Respect, Openness, Honesty, Support, Challenge, Choosing a coach, Creating a coaching contract, Agenda formulation.

6. Super Doing (the skills of coaching) looks at the optimum mental state for coaching including Focussed attention, relaxed concentration, Allowing, Inner Dialogue and then covers the main skills a coach uses: listening, questions, summarising, suggestions and feedback.

7. Super Model (the GROW Model) covers GROW in detail which has now become the world’s best-known coaching model appearing in most coaching books and numerous coaching development programmes.

Sections: Goal, Reality, Options, Wrap-up.

8. Super Tools (increasing capability) explores how coaching can be used to develop emotional literacy and how we can increase our effectiveness as coaches in the domain of emotions. It then offers a series of useful tools to add to the readers kit.

Sections: The purpose of emotions, Coaching emotions, Emotions and high performance, Clarifying Vision, Purpose and Values, Results and Well-being Process, The Precision Model, The Structure of a Problem, Issue Resolution, Areas of Life Cards, Life Pictures, Perceptual Positions, Off The Wall, Do It Now, Shadow Coaching.

9. Super Effectiveness (ensuring best practice) explores how a coach monitors himself, his coachees and his coaching sessions to ensure that his coaching is on track and delivering best value.

Sections: Self-monitoring, Monitoring the coachee, Monitoring the interaction using the FLOW Model, Co-coaching, External coaching.

10. Super Value (receiving the benefits) covers explores how to maximise the potential of coaching as individuals, within teams, and organisations and ultimately within families, communities and quality of life.

Sections: As a coach, Relationship coaching, Team coaching, Family coaching, Education, Community, Quality of life.

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“Graham Alexander is the World's number one executive coach.”

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