Jonathan Passmore

Ethical practice is the heart of good quality coaching. It is the foundation of trust, safety and professional credibility. Developing Ethical Maturity is a practical guide to the 2025 ICF Code of Ethics, translating values, principles and standards into clear choices coaches can apply in real client work. This essential guide explains how ethical conduct and the Core Competencies operate together. It provides the reader with a structured approach to working through grey areas and coaching dilemmas, and addresses contemporary challenges such as working on technology platforms, confidentiality, dual roles and AI-enabled coaching. Developing Ethical Maturity uniquely also provides focused preparation for the ICF ethics examinations at ACC, PCC and MCC levels, alongside lessons drawn from common complaints, and richly varied global case studies. This is an essential read for every professional coach.

As coaching continues to grow in popularity, supervision and mentor coaching have become the disciplines that protect quality, deepen mastery and sustain coaches. Becoming a Coaching Supervisor and Coach Mentor is a practical, evidence-informed guide to the ICF Supervision and Mentor Coach Competencies, translating standards into clear behaviours, reflective questions and session-ready processes. The book explores contracting, formative appraisal, ethics, difference and boundaries, alongside the key supervision models which every supervisor should know such as Seven-Eyed, cognitive behavioural, transactional analysis and team supervision. With case studies and guidance for group, digital and technology-supported practice, Becoming a Coaching Supervisor and Coach Mentor is a vital resource. Whether you are an emerging supervisor, experienced mentor coach or training provider, this book offers the structure and insight to raise your practice and is an essential core text for supervisor and mentor training.

Dieses Buch, verfasst von angesehenen Spezialisten im Coaching, dient allen, die sich mit Coaching in Bezug auf die aktualisierten Kompetenzen der International Coaching Federation (ICF) befassen. Es fokussiert auf Kernfähigkeiten, Wissen und die Entwicklung von Selbstbewusstsein im Coaching. Es ist ein grundständiger Text für die Coachausbildung und ein Leitfaden für weltweit ICF-akkreditierte Programme. Dieses Buch hilft Leserinnen und Lesern, sich die Fähigkeiten und das Wissen anzueignen, die für die professionelle Entwicklung als Coach erforderlich sind. Es regt dazu an, über das eigene Sein, Handeln und Wachstumspotenzial zu reflektieren. Auf Basis des Goldstandards der Coaching-Ausbildung und aktueller Forschung stellt es sicher, dass die Praxis evidenzbasiert und höchsten professionellen Standards entspricht.

How can you become the best team coach you can be? Written by highly experienced and award-winning authors and speakers, this book will help to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional team coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the Gold Standard for team coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is both well informed by evidenced and up to the highest professional standards. The book will also help you as you undertake a team coaching training program, as part of ICF team coaching development. “Becoming a Team Coach is a critical resource created by top executive coaches that offers a cumulation of the authors’ experience and knowledge in the field. This guide provides practical frameworks and expert advice for both new and experienced coaches and combines theory with real-world applications for the most effective teaching. Whether you're just beginning or looking to refine your skills, this guide will help you make a significant impact.” Dr. Marshall Goldsmith is the Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There. “Team coaching is a fast-growing phenomenon in the professional coaching field. Yet, there are still some misunderstandings, lack of clarity and frankly some mis-information. This book is a great resource for anybody who is interested in either being trained in team coaching or engaging this service for their organization. Easy to navigate and very practical, it is a real comprehensive resource for all.” Magdalena Nowicka Mook, CEO International Coaching Federation “As the world of coaching evolves, learning how to be a team coach is both a survival strategy for practitioners and a way to add more value to clients. While competencies have a role to play, the core skill is to move beyond them --- this book maps out how to achieve this”. Prof. David Clutterbuck

This new and fully updated edition of the bestselling Becoming a Coach: The Essential ICF Guide brings this essential guide for ICF coaches up to date for 2024 and onwards. This book equips you with the skills and knowledge you need to develop yourself as a professional coach. It will encourage you to reflect on who you are, what you do and how you can enhance your skills. By drawing on the ICF Gold Standard for coach training and the latest coaching research, it will ensure your practice is well-informed by evidence and is up to the highest professional standards. The book will also help you as you undertake any coaching training program, deepening your understanding of the core skills to be a coach and broadening your thinking as to how these can be applied with real clients in your own coaching practice. Praise for the First Edition "Becoming a Coach is the perfect place to start your coach development journey. The book provides a comprehensive coverage of the issues in coaching and offers an essential guide to the new ICF coach competencies for new and developing coaches." - Marshall Goldsmith - Thinkers 50 #1 Executive Coach for 10 years. "Whether you are becoming a coach, or are a seasoned coach supervisor, mentor, trainer, or educator, this book is your vital companion. The authors bring decades of experience and research into one powerful resource. Grounded in evidence-based models, plus tools, activities, reflective exercises and more, this book is a must-read " - Dr. Laura L. Hauser, MCC, MCEC Training Director, Team Coaching Operating System(R) Faculty, Fielding Graduate University coaching program Executive Officer, GSAEC.org "This is one of those rare books which has something for everyone. One of the most comprehensive guides to becoming a powerful coach which starts from the basics and takesus to the essentials of mastery. This book has embraced the complexity of coaching literature, approaches and tools. It has then structured and presented them in a fashion that brings together the chaos to a usable format. I can safely say that this book would offer a new idea, approach or perspective even to the most experienced of coaches." - Shweta Handa Gupta, MCC, Change Leadership Coach, QuadraBrain(R) Transformation Solutions, Global ICF Young Leader Award Recipient, 2018 "In this crowded confusing profession called coaching, Sinclair and Passmore have written the guidebook that clears the fog for coaches on their path to coaching excellence. Becoming a Coach clarifies the distinction of coaching and why it is so effective, provides specific practices for embodying a coaching mindset, and is full of tools that will elevate your coaching impact. No matter where you are on your journey, this book will give you a bright light to follow." - Dr. Marcia Reynolds, MCC, ICF Global Board Past Chair, Author of Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry

How can you become the very best coach you can be? Becoming a Coach provides all the knowledge and inspiration needed to reflect on who you are, what you do, and how you can develop as a professional coach. Drawing on the latest ICF coach competence framework and up-to-date coaching research, the authors set out a wide range of contemporary coaching models and techniques and show how they can be integrated in order to deliver an evidence-based coaching service to the very highest professional standards. Deepening readers’ understanding of core competencies and broadening thinking on how to apply them in practice, Becoming a Coach is the is the only book to align directly with the world’s most widely accepted and up-to-date professional coaching guidance. As such, it is a perfect foundational resource for any coaching practice, and the ideal textbook for any coaching education programme.

Over the past 30 years, coaching has grown into a professional service, delivered by billion-dollar businesses for people at every level. But support for those tasked with the responsibility of buying coaching is still hard to come by. This book is designed to help individual coachees, line managers of coachees, and organisational buyers of coaching to get the most out of coaching. Through compiling the 50 most popular questions and drawing together a diverse panel of experts, The Coaching Buyers' Handbook presents crisp and clear answers to each. By helping create smarter, more informed buyers, this book will contribute to driving up standards throughout the coaching industry.

Over the past 30 years, coaching has grown into a professional service, delivered by billion-dollar businesses for people at every level. But support for those tasked with the responsibility of buying coaching is still hard to come by. This book is designed to help individual coachees, line managers of coachees, and organisational buyers of coaching to get the most out of coaching. Through compiling the 50 most popular questions and drawing together a diverse panel of experts, The Coaching Buyers' Handbook presents crisp and clear answers to each. By helping create smarter, more informed buyers, this book will contribute to driving up standards throughout the coaching industry.

Coaching is an emerging discipline that is continually exploring new frontiers. An area of particularly fertile ground is cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT). Developed from behavioural roots by integrating cognitive models of behaviour, and since developed in a range of directions to place increased value on individuals’ histories, emotions and potential, CBT offers a host of interrelated, evidence-based approaches that draw on psychology and our knowledge of the brain to help people cope with psychological challenges. Adapting cutting-edge psychological science to the needs of a coaching audience, Third Wave Cognitive Behavioural Coaching shows how, by drawing on techniques from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), Schema Therapy (ST) and more, coaches can adopt a more holistic approach that takes account of the problem, the context and the unique individual.

Succeeding as a Coach is aimed at coaches who have completed their training and are looking to take the next steps on their professional journey. It provides insights from expert practitioners in a uniquely concise format, with frequently asked questions discussed in bitesize chapters that allows any coach or trainee to quickly find the specific guidance they need to add new ideas to their coaching repertoire. The content is divided into five sections: Section 1 deals with training, setting up in practice, attracting business and planning sessions; Section 2 looks at starting a session and establishing the coaching relationship; Section 3 covers core skills such as reflection, listening, questioning and the coaching mindset; Section 4 explores how to manage time and close sessions; and finally Session 5 considers wider coaching issues such as supervision, personal development and developing self-awareness.

"This Handbook is sure to become a key resource for any researcher or professional looking for the latest and most innovative thinking from around the world on the full range of topics related to training, development, and performance management." Bradford S. Bell, PhD, Cornell University, USA. Editor, Personnel Psychology "I wish I could have accessed this book many years ago. Comprehensive and scholarly, the four sections ? training, e-learning, personal and professional development and performance management ? fit well together and address a gap in the literature that has been apparent for some time. The psychological perspective speaks to growing interest in the micro-foundations of strategic success, and the blending together of both formal and informal perspectives on learning in organizations ensures a holistic rather than piecemeal approach to the question of how to build individual knowledge, skills, and competences in organizations. I believe that this book will make a significant impact on its target audience in this critical area." Helen Shipton, Professor of International Human Resource Management, Nottingham Trent University, UK The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of the Psychology of Training, Development, and Performance Improvement provides up-to-date, contemporary information for researchers and professionals by reviewing the latest literature and research in the interconnected fields of training, development, and performance appraisal. It brings a psychological perspective to bear on a multidisciplinary field that links to management, human resources, and education. Unique to reference works in this area, it maintains a truly global focus on the field with top international contributors looking at research and practice from around the world, including South America, Europe, Canada, and Australia, as well as the United States and the United Kingdom. The chapters cover a diverse range of important contemporary topics, such as needs analysis, job design, active learning, self-regulation, simulation approaches, 360-degree feedback, and virtual learning environments. Together, they offer researchers and professionals essential information for building a talented organization, a critical and challenging task for organizational success in the twenty-first century.

A Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology focusing on occupational safety and workplace health. The editors draw on their collective experience to present thematically structured material from leading thinkers and practitioners in the USA, Europe, and Asia PacificProvides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions that psychology can make toward the improvement of workplace safety and employee healthEquips those who need it most with cutting-edge research on key topics including wellbeing, safety culture, safety leadership, stress, bullying, workplace health promotion and proactivity

Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a widely recognised process for engaging people in organizational development and change management. Based on conversational practice, it is a particular way of asking questions, fostering relationships and increasing an organization's capacity for collaboration and change. It focuses on building organizations around what works, rather than trying to fix what doesn't, and acknowledges the contribution of individuals in increasing trust and organizational alignment and effectiveness. Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management studies AI in depth, identifying what makes it work and how to implement it to improve performance within the business. Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management explains the skills, perspectives and approaches needed for successful AI, and demonstrates how a practical conversational approach can be applied to organizational challenges in times of change. Case studies from organizations that have already integrated AI into their change management practice, including Nokia and BP, reveal why the processes are valuable and how to promote, create and generate such conversations in other organizations. Written in jargon-free language, this second edition now includes chapters on how positive psychology can enhance appreciative practice and appreciative coaching, making it an essential resource for anyone looking to implement AI in their organization.

A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of coaching and mentoring. Puts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but who do not always have the time or resources to keep up with scholarly researchThematic chapters cover theoretical models, efficacy, ethics, training, the influence of emerging fields such as neuroscience and mindfulness, virtual coaching and mentoring and moreContributors include Anthony Grant, David Clutterbuck, Susan David, Robert Garvey, Stephen Palmer, Reinhard Stelter, Robert Lee, David Lane, Tatiana Bachkirova and Carol KauffmanWith a Foreword by Sir John Whitmore

A Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Psychology focusing on occupational safety and workplace health. The editors draw on their collective experience to present thematically structured material from leading thinkers and practitioners in the USA, Europe, and Asia PacificProvides comprehensive coverage of the major contributions that psychology can make toward the improvement of workplace safety and employee healthEquips those who need it most with cutting-edge research on key topics including wellbeing, safety culture, safety leadership, stress, bullying, workplace health promotion and proactivity

A state-of-the-art reference, drawing on key contemporary research to provide an in-depth, international, and competencies-based approach to the psychology of coaching and mentoring. Puts cutting-edge evidence at the fingertips of organizational psychology practitioners who need it most, but who do not always have the time or resources to keep up with scholarly researchThematic chapters cover theoretical models, efficacy, ethics, training, the influence of emerging fields such as neuroscience and mindfulness, virtual coaching and mentoring and moreContributors include Anthony Grant, David Clutterbuck, Susan David, Robert Garvey, Stephen Palmer, Reinhard Stelter, Robert Lee, David Lane, Tatiana Bachkirova and Carol KauffmanWith a Foreword by Sir John Whitmore

Top Business Psychology Models is a quick, accessible overview to the fundamental theories and frameworks that will help you understand human behaviour, emotions and cognition at work. Each model is presented in a short and crisply written summary, which could be easily converted into materials for use in training or in coaching conversations. Clear, succinct and well-referenced chapters also offer routes into accessing further information. Free of academic jargon, Top Business Psychology Models explains all the main theories and models used by psychologists, giving you all the essential information to immediately implement business psychology techniques in your organization.