Performance Coaching Toolkit
Learning from this book
Part 1: Orientation
Key issues in coaching
The STEPPA Model
Part 2: Coaching tools
Foundations of coaching
Subject focus in STEPPPA
Target focus in STEPPPA
Emotional focus in STEPPPA
PErception focus in STEPPPA
PLan focus in STEPPPA
Pace and act focus in STEPPPA
Advanced tools for coaches
Part 3: Further resources and conclusion
Coaching best practice: Linguistic tips
Review and What next?
Glossary
Appendix 1: Clean language questions
Appendix 2: STEPPPA Question bank
Appendix 3: Hot words and phrases
Websites
Bibliography
Index
Michelle Duval – Managing Director Equilibrio International
"For anyone new to the subject everything is well and simply explained, as such I’d recommend it as a must buy. Those more knowledgeable will find it refreshing in its content, presentation and practical approach…Overall, this is a great book and definitely recommended."
Caroline Nowell, Book Review Panel, Rapport Magazine
It offers a wealth of wise suggestions from two highly experienced coaches and readers may choose to read it right through or dip into it using the List of Tools, Glossary and Index. The keys to effective coaching, in the view of McLeod and Thomas, are questioning, listening and silence; they offer a very nice and easy exercise enabling coaches to balance all three. Among the many other offerings I like are the tools for checking and working with coachees' emotions and the 17 'starter questions' for coaching conversations."
Dr Susie Linder-Pelz, author of 'NLP Coaching’' (Kogan Page)
The Performance Coaching Toolkit is a practical handbook for anyone wishing to improve their coaching skills. It is enriched by methods taken from the authors' understanding and development of practical learning techniques as well as from their work in education, personal development and within various commercial organizations.
The approach of the book is concise and informative: all the tools sit within a practical framework for developing and enhancing your own coaching style. This framework is based on the STEPPPA Model which is built around:
- Subject focus
- Target focus
- Emotional focus
- Perception focus
- Plan focus
- Pace and Act focus
The layout has been designed to enable fast access to key information and the book has links to other related models and tools, so that the complexity of coaching processes, with time, becomes even more comprehensible.
This toolkit is key reading for coaches and prospective coaches in all sectors, particularly those who want a rapid and accessible route to understanding coaching practice and who want a reliable source book for coaching methods.