Goal-focused Coaching Theory and Practice [Paperback]

This book offers a comprehensive, practical guide to goal-focused coaching. Addressing a significant gap in the literature, Ives and Cox contextualize goal-focused coaching within the broader coaching framework and explain the efficacy of this approach across a number of contexts and applications.

The book draws on behavioral science, rather than humanistic psychology, to provide a well-researched, evidence-based guide that includes:

• A detailed examination of the theoretical underpinnings of this approach
• A discussion of the skills, models and formats for goal-focused coaching
• Cutting edge insights into barriers to coaching and managing the coaching relationship
• Summaries, vignettes, references, and diagrams to aid learning

Goal-focused Coaching will be of interest to students taking classes in coaching, as well as professional executive coaches.

Preface Anthony Grant (University of Sydney)  1. Introduction  2. What is Goal-focused Coaching?  3. Goal-focused Coaching Theory  4. Goal-focused Methodology  5. Relationship Management in Goal-focused Coaching  6. The GFC Cycle  7. Team, Group and Peer Coaching with a Goal Focus  8. Goal Setting  9. Action Planning  10. Commitment in Goal-focused Coaching  11. Questioning and Listening Skills for GFC  12. The Complete GFC Process

This is the book that demonstrates the value of research-based performance focus in coaching. At last.

David Megginson, Professor Emeritus, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

In this book you will find an intelligent and well-informed exposition of a goal-focused approach to coaching which outlines a comprehensive theory of goal-focused coaching inls+