Coaching Understood
A Pragmatic Inquiry into the Coaching Process
- Elaine Cox - Oxford Brookes University, UK
'This book is a milestone in the coaching literature. Elaine Cox provides an excellent text that is scholarly, practical and accessible. She offers clear insights into how coaching works so that coaching is truly understood!' - Bob Garvey, Professor of Business Education, York St John Business School
'The development of the coaching literature has often been protracted and modest. In recent years, few coaching texts provided a significant leap forward in our understanding of psychological dynamics of coaching. For this reason, Cox’s Coaching Understood is a game changer. More thoroughly and systematically than ever before, this work gets under the bonnet of the coaching engine and explores the mechanics of the coaching process. For anyone wondering why coaching works, this book is your answer.' - Yossi Ives, Tag International Development, UK (International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching Mentoring)
Coaching Understood takes a fresh approach to coaching skills and techniques by examining each element of the coaching process in detail in order to verify and justify its effectiveness.
By exposing the mystery underlying coaching's success as a personal and professional development intervention, Elaine Cox undertakes to generate a better understanding of coaching, improve coaching practice, and breed a new generation of more informed coachees and buyers of coaching.
Coaching Understood is essential reading for students and practitioners alike.
This book offers a superb clarity to both the practice of coaching and the underpinning theory that defines this emergent profession. It deconstructs the coaching cycle so fluently for both coach and client. However, for me the chapters on Reflecting,Becoming Critical and Integrating Experience were so powerful and persuasive in both their theorical focus and - thinking and planning and their impact on actual experience. A fantastic read!
Dr Peter Treadwell
This is a good text for the first year modules of our MA in Coaching and Mentoring Practice programme. It is already adapted for this purposes and students appreciate how relevant it is for their study.
A very enjoyable, detailed and scholarly book. The author weaves theroretical and practical applications coherently resulting in a holistic description of coaching.
Great to have a text that outlines what is behind coaching!
A very useful insight in to the psychology of needs in supporting and coaching. The best text on coaching to date.
Easy to read and key text
Well written and informative book
The book did not sufficuiently link to the personal development model being used within the module for which it was being considered
Quality course has not been formally scheduled yet due to decreased number of college students thrughout the country due to economic reasons.
The book is very good as a reference easy to read short book for managers. It can be used as one of the primary textbooks for an undergraduate college course. It can't be the solo primary college textbook as traditionally expected by students.
We in Lebanon facing culture difficulties (more than the west) as students copy textbooks and are not purchasing new ones.
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Good book for those selecting coaching as an optional unit within Dip. E & T
