The Power of Purpose
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by Peter S Temes
304 pages
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In this book about on-purpose living and fulfillment, Peter S. Temes draws on great thinkers from Augustine and Aristotle to Emerson and Mother Teresa to build the case that lasting fulfillment comes from serving others, not self. If you are looking for an erudite book on purpose that goes beyond shallow self-help and personal fulfillment, this volume is a great choice for reorienting business or life coaching clients. Temes treats themes like the choosing when to change the world and when to adapt to it, the competitive advantage of building a business on serving others, ambition vs. greed, and much more.

The Life Coaching Library
Price: $117.83 - $99.99 On Sale!
The Life Coaching Library is a great set of tools for life coaches. It includes five of our top-rated resources: Becoming a Professional Life Coach, The Path, Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries, Blueprint for Life, and Asking to Win.

• Becoming a Professional Life Coach is our top-rated book for learning the process of coaching life purpose issues.
• The Path by Laurie Beth Jones provides a simple, effective method for creating mission and value statements with a client.
• Powerful Questions: Coaching Visionaries provides an hour of live coaching demos on how to help others pursue their dreams.
• Blueprint for Life is an all-in-one set of life purpose CDs and exercises you can use for classes or one-on-ones with your clients.
• Asking to Win is a pocket asking guide by Bobb Biehl, a leader famous for changing your life with only a few questions.

This bundle is a great set of life coaching tools. So get The Life Coaching Library, and start life coaching today! Click Here to see more discount coaching bundles from Coach22.

New! Coaching Questions

A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
by Tony Stoltzfus
100 pages, Large Format
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Powerful questions are a coach's greatest tool--so nothing can improve your coaching ability more than building great asking skills. Whether you are a life coach in training or an experienced professional, if you are doing christian coaching or executive coaching, Coaching Questions has tools to help you coach with greater impact.

This reference guide is a toolkit packed with dozens of asking skills, models and exercises, covering everything from conversational models, options and obstacles to advanced asking skills like reframing, tolerations and decision strategies (click here to view the Table of Contents). Each questioning technique is briefly described, then illustrated with coaching question examples (over 1,000 in all), hints and application exercises.

Level II Coach Training Intensive | Presenter's Package
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by Tony Stoltzfus
Complete Presenter's Package with PowerPoint--Electronic Download

Take your coach training to the next level with the Level II Coach Training Intensive. This new open source Presenter's Package from Coach22 provides two full days of interactive coach training workshop sessions, and is designed to follow an introductory coaching course like Getting Started in Leadership Coaching or Peer Coach Training. The emphasis of the workshop is providing extensive practice with feedback to build confidence and competence in core coaching skills. Participants work from the book, Coaching Questions, while this Presenter's Package includes everything the trainer needs to offer the course:

• A 75-slide PowerPoint presentation, with photos, graphics and animations (view sample slides)
• Complete Presenter's Outlines with explanatory comments and learning objectives, keyed to the book and the PowerPoint (view sample session )
• A Presenter's Guide with info on how to set up and promote the course
• A Participant's Package with course schedule, sign-up form and other participant info
• A customizable, color E-Brochure for promoting your course to participants (view e-brochure)

If you are training coaches for your organization and want to go beyond the basic courses currently available, this package is for you. As an added bonus, the course materials are provided in an Open Source format (Electronic Download) that allows you to freely use and customize them to suit your needs.

A Pocket Guide to Coaching Small Groups

by Randall Neighbour
95 pages
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What your small group leaders need most is a friend... a small group coach who will support them in ministry and help their group achieve its goals. Without this kind of relational support from a coach, a small group ministry won’t grow and birth new groups.

In this quick read, Randall Neighbour, a leader in the cell church movement, illustrates how to build effective relationships between small group coaches and group leaders. This pocket guide provides excellent tips for time management, preventing burnout, investing in leaders for maximum impact, and the role of the coach in developing new small group leaders. Training your small group coaches in the simple principles found in this book will turn them into the kind of coaches that makes small group ministry a life-changing experience for everyone involved.

Life-on-Life Leadership

A Manual for Coaching Discipling Leaders
by Cheryl Baker and Tony Stoltzfus
120 pages, tabbed, with inside pockets
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Eight Principles of Life on Life Leadership is a practical handbook for coaching discipleship group leaders. The manual takes the eight timeless principles in the classic book, The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman, and uses nearly 100 coaching tools and exercises to help leaders apply them to small group life.

This coach's manual provides a step by step approach to coaching group leaders toward greater effectiveness. The process starts with an the leader and coach doing an assessment of group life based on Coleman's eight principles of discipleship (which cover selecting, training and reproducing leaders). The group leader chooses what to focus on and creates a growth goal in that area. Then the tools and coaching exercises in the manual are used to help move things forward. Click Here for more products from this author.

Peer Coaching Facilitator's Package

by Tony Stoltzfus
Books, DVDs and Promotional Materials

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Peer Coach Training can help you build lasting, accountable peer relationships in your church, small group or team. Or, it can be the perfect way to offer introductory Christian coaching skills training. This Facilitator's Package includes everything a leader needs to offer Peer Coach Training in his or her group. The package includes:

• The Peer Coaching Facilitator’s Guide is the leader’s complete handbook for offering the course, with session outlines, checklists, promotional hints, and follow-up materials. (Click here to see a sample session outline).
• The book Leadership Coaching provides a wealth of background information on the Christian coaching concepts presented. Each discussion question is keyed to the pages in the book where that concept is discussed. Click here to read a sample chapter.
• The Peer Coaching DVD Set includes 25 teaching and demonstration segments on two discs. Watch real peer coaching demonstrations, discuss, and then try the techniques out with your peer partner.
• A copy of the Peer Coaching Workbook includes handouts, peer exercises, debriefing questions, and other resources for participants. (Click here to view a sample).
• Ten Peer Coaching Brochures are also provided for recruiting people for the training. Click here to see the e-brochure.

The course includes an orientation plus eight 60- to 75-minute coach training sessions. A typical session features a short teaching segment plus a demonstration of a coaching skill, a debriefing time, and an application exercise where peers practice with each other. Several flexible schedules are provided for various workshop or classroom formats. (The workshop options eliminate the peer relationship component and focus solely on developing Christian coaching skills.)

Asking to Win

by Bob Biehl
31 pages
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A great question can transform your life. In this compact, high-impact booklet, Bobb Biehl, a well-known speaker and consultant on life- and business planning, has captured over 100 jewels from his own experience of asking profound questions. The booklet also contains samples of several planning tools and rules of thumb for asking, planning and deciding.

Bob Biehl's questions run the gamut from career change to brainstorming to organizing to problem solving. It's a great resource for Christian coaches who are looking to improve their asking skills or find examples of life-changing questions.

Coaching for Performance
Price: $19.95
by John Whitmore
180 pages
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Clear, concise, hands-on and friendly, Coaching for Performance is a top-rated business coaching guide written in a coaching style. Perfect for beginners or for practicing coaches, this bestselling handbook will help you master key skills of the coaching model and unlock people's potential to maximize their own performance.

The book contains an excellent introduction to the coaching approach, and follows with an in-depth look at the "GROW" conversational model, a widely used blueprint for structuring a coaching conversation. With tips, example questions and sample dialogue for each step, this definitive guide will quickly have you coaching people to clarity and action.

Adopted by many of the world's major corporations and with over 200,000 copies in print, this easy-to-use title argues persuasively for:

- Using questions instead of commands to raise awareness and responsibility
- Using the GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options, Will) to generate prompt action and peak performance
- The growing need to relate to the individual's sense of meaning and purpose

Leadership Coaching

The Disciplines, Skills and Heart of a Christian Coach
by Tony Stoltzfus
320 pages
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Leadership Coaching is the best how-to book available for anyone who wants to learn Christian coaching or improve their life coaching skills. Written by a top Christian coach trainer, it is filled with real-life stories, practical tools and application exercises that teach you the nuts and bolts of how to coach.

Part I is an in-depth look at how Christian coaching fits with the purposes of God. Starting with key biblical concepts about how God builds leaders, this book goes beyond proof-texting to present an integrated, values-based paradigm for Christian leadership coaching.

Part II uses a hands-on, interactive approach to show you how to coach. Utilizing the seven key elements of effective coaching as a framework, each facet of the life coaching relationship is explained in detail. Then follow-up Master Class sections help you internalize the key concepts and try them out in real life. Leadership Coaching is a great introduction to a powerful way of helping others grow.

To get even more out of this great book, purchase the companion CD set, Leadership Coaching Live!