‘You simply must read this book if you are serious about being a top-notch business coach. It is an excellent guide to best practices based on clear theory, experience and business wisdom.’- Carol Kauffman PhD, co-founder and Director of the Coaching and Positive Psychology Initiative at Harvard Medical School, and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Coaching: An International Journal of Theory Research and Practice. ‘This is an extraordinarily thorough book. It covers a great range of practical guidance on matters that will concern the new coach [and] addresses a wide range of approaches to coaching while remaining firmly embedded in an experiential learning tradition.’- David Megginson, Professor of Human Resource Development, Sheffield Hallam University, UK

Contents 1. About This Book 2. The Business Coaching Process 3. The Coaching Conversation 4. Working With Question Frameworks 5. Exploring and Understanding Coaching Models 6. Diversity, Culture and Gender 7. Existential and Experiential Learning Issues 8. Supervision, Contracting and Ethical Concerns 9. Developing a Body of Knowledge – Coaching Research 10. Integration and Synthesis