The Coaching Pathfinder

From the 2012 author of Power Up, a widely adopted strengths-coaching paradigm, and a coach, author and trainer labeled a "master mentor" and the "coach's coach" comes The Coaching Pathfinder. This concise guide to all things coaching is a contemporary, evidence-based resource for coaches of all stripes. It is an exceptional resource for coaching professionals already established, as well as those seeking to start or enhance a growing coaching praxis and business.
With dozens of very up-to-date references to literature for both targeting and enlarging the essential elements of top-notch coaching, this book affords the reader a range of processes and procedures for a masterful performance of this now uhelping skill now universally viewed as essential. Gene Knott has compiled the very best know-how elements for excelling as an independent practitioner, as a coaching supervisor, for leaders of teams at any organization level, or a person charged with deepening HR practices from on-boarding to developing veteran staff.
With dozens of new and revised tools and a keen, pliable and readily adopted model, The Coaching Pathfinder is a comprehensive address of all matters coaching. Divided into nine highly readable chapters in three complementary segments, the highly readable and story-laden book starts with coaching as a practice, then covers the four main groups of assets: strengths, mindset, skill set and toolsets, and finishes with applications for coaching as team leader and for adopting organization-wide coaching or mentoring programs.
The accumulated experience of a 34-year diverse coaching practice and instructional history combines herein for a unique set of approaches, with solid, science-based and rich insights for the reader who would learn anew. With a learner's bent in mind, and the perspectives from actual cases with reflective inquiry, as well as end-of-chapter review questions, this book offers a wealth of useful and readily useable features for the supervisor, team leader, coach or mentor.
Highlighting key topics from development to decision-making, and the centrality of change, to how to conduct a coaching compact over time, this is a book any coaching practitioner, literally any person looking to enlarge their adoption of a reliable, resourceful set of coaching processes in their corporate work will want at the ready.