Behavioral Coaching: Building Sustainable Personal and Organizational Strengths Book

This ground-breaking new text introduces for the first time a comprehensive scientific conceptual model of coaching practice. The book draws upon existing validated behavioral scientific practice and sets it in an important new coaching framework. Coaching today employs an increasing array of behavioral change techniques, rather than simply setting goals, motivating, championing and challenging coachees. Of recent years there has been a growing demand from coaches and their clients for a coaching model based on scientifically validated methodologies. It is in response to this demand that the behavioral coaching model was developed. Behavioral coaching can be defined as the science and art of facilitating the performance, learning and development of the individual or team, which in turn assists the growth of the organization. The book represents essential reading for any student or practitioner of coaching. You will find valuable information not only on how to apply the principles and skills of behavioral coaching to achieve meaningful, sustainable measurable outcomes but also how to develop a positive coaching philosophy. The resource text is filled with case-studies, validated strategies, summaries, and illustrations. The book is intended for coaches, learning and development professionals, consultants, trainers and individuals in the business and corporate sectors, and for executives, managers and those involved in personal coaching, health, education, sports and the public sector. It is written for people who are leading, managing and relating to others. As organizational and personal coaching strives towards professionalisation, it is dependent upon its ability to identify a body of behavioral scientific knowledge, practices, skills and values to further its development and establish its boundaries. This practice-oriented, how-to text book is an important contribution to this end. This book is a vital companion resource to the authors' first two coaching references: 'The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work' (which focused on the elements and nature of coaching, coaching frameworks, areas of application and the competencies of successful coaches) and 'The Coaching at Work Toolkit' ( a priceless toolkit of validated coaching tools and psychology-based coaching techniques, theories, tools and practices). Suzanne Skiffington, BA, MCP, MAPS, MISH, PhD in Clinical Psychology, and Perry Zeus, BA, Fellow VAAR have personally facilitated hundreds of coach training courses around the world. Suzanne is the Head of Education at the Behavioral Coaching Institute. BCI is a global, private, educational institution devoted to organizational coaching research and development. The Institute accomplishes its mission through innovative, practical and working applications of the behavioral sciences to the challenges facing individuals and organizations today and tomorrow. The Institute's unique global partnership program licences qualified individuals and organizations to establish their own (external or in-house) regional coaching college/educational center. Through their internationally renowned coach training and certification school, 1 to 1 Coaching School, they conduct tailor-made courses with established and new coaches, professionals and manager/leaders of organizations looking to establish a 'world best-standard' coaching business/practice or an in-house coaching program. Synopsis This work presents a coherent definition and model of behavioural coaching based upon scientific, validated behavioural principles. It provides structured models and strategies for bringing about durable and measurable change in individuals and organizations.Read More