Cathy Liska Each year, coaches who earn their Certified Professional Coach designation with the Center for Coaching Certification are invited to participate in writing a chapter for a book. The feedback on the content has been excellent and the success of this quality book ensures it continues.
Book Review:
Coaching Perspectives provides excellent insights for executive, life, and business coaching as well as expertise in specific niche areas of coaching.
Summary:
The chapters of Coaching Perspectives are:
- Powerful Goal Setting for Results by Cathy Liska
- A step-by-step guide on how to set goals so that you achieve them.
- Two Experts in the Coaching Process by Ruth Dillon
- A demonstration of how the client is their own best expert and the coach is the process expert.
- Positivity is Key to Effective Coaching by Pamela Lewis
- Honing in on the power of choosing positivity and the language that supports it.
- The Path to Coaching Effectively by Cynthia Foster
- Working with the first coaching client after training.
- Building Credibility and Success by Peggi Peaslee
- The importance of how you present yourself as a coach.
- Selling by NOT Telling by Erica Torres-Dudziak
- Offering coaching services as an option and an opportunity.
- Present Your Way to Profits by Megan Huber
- Speaking as a way to build your coaching business.
- I’m a Great Person – I Think by Nicole Stragalas
- About coaching individuals with fragile self-esteem.
- Coaching and Christians by Sharon Wilcox
- Understanding the hesitations of a Christian and moving forward with coaching.
- Defining Your Journey to Success: Career Coaching by
Ahfeeyah Thomas- Exploring the impact of career coaching.
- Building Leaders at Sigma-Aldrich Corporation – A Case Study by Erick Koshner
- The application of coaching leaders within a corporation.
- Moving Beyond Metrics with Performance Based Coaching by Jeanne Hathcock
- Coaching for engagement and productivity in a corporation.
The Bad: Each chapter is unique both in content and in writing style so this book is 12 e-books combined.
The Good: The flow of the chapters does work in terms of content, and the broad overview combined with specialized expertise is excellent.
Conclusion: A great read for coaches, clients, and those thinking about coaching.
