Coaching - What Really Works Jenny Rogers 9781529744736

This is your essential companion to being a coach. Author Jenny Rogers distills her decades of experience to guide you through the challenges and pitfalls, joys and rewards, and dos and don’ts of coaching. Whether you are a qualified coach many years into practice, or a trainee moving into your first placement, the book provides a treasure trove of practical strategies and skills, theories and concepts that will enhance your practice. It captures what it takes to be a successful coach, and will support and inspire you to become a more confident, self-reflective practitioner.

1. Making sure that you have a real client 2. Drawing those boundaries 3. Negotiating the confidentiality maze 4. Listening for the client’s boundaries 5. Staying within your areas of competence 6. Breaking the boundaries 7. Faking it is not making it 8. Switching off judgement 9. Looking openly at the coach-client relationship 10. Being authentic 11. Exploring the backstory 12. Understanding attachment 13. Becoming trauma-aware 14. Avoiding the lure of rescuing 15. Working with rescuers 16. Coaching the perfectionist 17. Getting away from endless intellectualizing 18. Using psychometrics wisely 19. Giving feedback – carefully 20. Collecting bespoke feedback for clients 21. Understanding that change isn’t as easy as it may look 22. Working with Loss 23. Coaching through crisis 24. Working on life purpose 25. Putting away the toolbox 26. Understanding the challenges of becoming a coach 27. Continuing to learn, staying connected 28. Remembering that you are vulnerable too 29. Getting a supervisor