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Top-Rated Christian Coaching Books and Coach Training Resources
Life Coaching is a rapidly growing new discipline. But if you want Christian coach training or to build life coaching skills, how do you sort what's truly useful out from the the chaff? At Coach22, we've read and professionally reviewed what's out there in the coach training and Christian life coaching worlds, and handpicked only the best books, training resources and coaching courses to help you make the most of your time and money.
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Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills
by Tony Stoltzfus
NEW LOWER PRICE
100 pages, Large Format
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Want to perfect your asking skills with help from a master coach? Coaching Questions is the best-selling asking resource for coaches in training and seasoned professionals. This comprehensive toolkit is packed with dozens of asking tools, 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 described, then illustrated with coaching question examples (over 1,000 in all), hints and practice exercises. It even includes self-study schedules for becoming a "master of asking". This reference guide is one you'll turn to again and again.
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A Crash Course in Christian Coaching
by Christopher McCluskey
DVD in clamshell case - 80 min.
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Want to introduce coaching to a friend or a leader from your church? This video teaching session by well-known coach and coach trainer Chris McCluskey provides an overview of the coaching approach, explores its roots and distinguishes between coaching, consulting and therapy. In the second half of the disc, Chris also explores coaching as a profession and appliccations of coaching to the church. Newcomers and experienced coaches alike will enjoy this presentation of the fundamental principles and practices of coaching.
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New! Transformissional Coaching
Price: $19.99
Empowering Leaders in a Changing Ministry World
by Steve Ogne and Tim Roehl
304 pages, hardcover
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Even leaders need leading. In this greatly changing world, ministry experts Steve Ogne and Tim Roehl have coined the phrase "transformissional" to define the unique type of inspired coaching they offer to spiritual leaders in need of fresh direction.
This book is a basic coaching how-to with an emphasis on church planting, coaching post-moderns and working with leaders. While it covers some of the same ground as other how-to books (like Coaching Christian Leaders or Leadership Coaching), it adds some valuable information on coaching missional leaders and post-moderns that is not found anywhere else. A good addition to a coaches library.
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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 focuses on coaching discipleship group and small group leaders. Based on The Master Plan of Evangelism by Robert Coleman, this book wraps Coleman's eight enduring discipling principles with nearly 100 coaching tools and exercises to help leaders apply those principles to small group life.
The manual offers a step-by-step approach to coaching your group leaders. You start by identifying a coaching agenda with an assessment of how the group is doing in each of the eight key areas Coleman's identifies (which cover selecting, training and reproducing leaders). The leader picks an area to focus on, and the manual walks you through the process of creating a growth goal in that area. The coaching tools and exercises provide ready-made action steps, giving the coach something substantial to offer. If your coaches wonder what to do when they meet with a group leader, this book can help.
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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.
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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.)
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Blueprint for Life | Christian Life Purpose Tool
Discovering the Life You Were Born to Live
by Michael Kendrick and Ben Ortlip
Multimedia Package: 160 pg Manual, 5 Audio CDs, Wall Chart, Gift Assessment and Leader's Guide
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Blueprint for Life is an excellent tool for helping groups or individuals clarify their destiny and life purpose, and set goals to walk it out. This 8-week coached- or self-study course includes a well-thought-out set of life purpose exercises, 5 audio CDs by well-known speakers like Andy Stanley and Bruce Wilkinson, and various self-discovery tools like a gifting assessment, life purpose journal and goals wall chart. The overall quality of the materials and packaging is superb, and it's well-priced for what's included.
Blueprint for Life is a perfect follow up course for a church that has done a 40 Days of Purpose program -- it helps you discover your unique, individual calling and destiny. The author, Ben Ortlip, also provides excellent materials for one-on-one Christian life coaching. If you want to introduce Christian life coaching and life purpose discovery to your church, Blueprint for Life is a great way to do it.
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Stop Parenting and Start Coaching
Price: $16.95
by Carol Carter, Gary Izumo and Joe Martin
100 pages
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Stop Parenting and Start Coaching can help you make the change from a telling parent to a coach -- a change that often allows both parents and teens to start enjoying your relationship again. The practical, easy-to-read story format introduces you to some of the tools and techniques of coaching teens. Stop Parenting and Start Coaching can help you:
- See yourself through your teen’s eyes
- Understand what teenagers are going through
- Improve communication with coaching techniques like listening and asking
- Champion your teen’s gifts, dreams and goals while increasing his or her motivation to succeed
Stop Parenting and Start Coaching unlocks the process of coaching teens.
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Tony Stoltzfus Author Bundle
Price: $118.82 - $99.99
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Six great titles at a discount price from popular author and coach trainer Tony Stoltzfus.
This package is a great fit for new or aspiring coaches, and includes:
Leadership Coaching is our top-rated book for learning how to coach. Filled with tools, sample dialogs, and skill building exercises, It also grounds those techniques in a solid presentation of the coaching approach and in a biblical value system. Leadership Coaching Live! is a companion 4-disc set that demonstrates key concepts in the book. Reading about coaching is good, but it is essential that you spend time listening to a great coach at work to catch the nuances of how it's done.
Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills is a handbook of dozens of asking tools, models and techniques, with self-study schedules to help you put them into practice. Illustrated with over 1000 examples of great coaching questions, this guide is a great way for any coach to sharpen his or her skills.
The Master Coach Series combines three advanced coaching CDs, each with over an hour of live coaching demos, debriefings and input on a particular skill area. Learn techniques that will boost your coaching effectiveness while you listen. Bonus handouts and question lists are also included.
We've bundled these six key resources together at a price you won't find anywhere else. So start building your coaching skills today! Click Here to see more discount bundles from Coach22.
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Presenter's Package: Getting Started in Leadership Coaching, Version 2.0
Price: $49.95 - $9.95
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by Tony Stoltzfus
Coach Training Outlines for a Complete Coaching Course
Electronic Download
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A Christian Life Coach Training Course You Can Offer for Under $10 (that's almost free!)
These coach training outlines will help you introduce Christian life coaching in your church, team or ministry. The 7-week class or tele-class outlines contain everything you need to offer the Getting Started in Leadership Coaching training course. Course materials (purchase separately) are the acclaimed book Leadership Coaching and the companion 4-disc CD set. Each week participants read a few chapters from the book, listen to a demo coaching session from the CD set, and then participate in a live, interactive class session with you as the coach trainer.
This Presenter's Package includes all the materials you need to offer the course: a complete Facilitator's guide with in-depth outlines, course schedules, a participant's packet, an orientation outline, tips for running and promoting the coaching class -- even a color promotional e-flyer you can modify with your course name and dates.
To offer this coach training course, simply purchase the Presenter's Pack here, and you'll recieve a code in your purchase reciept that lets you download the Christian coach training outlines and presenter's information. You'll also get a license to purchase the books and CDs needed for the course at a special 30% discount. Please note: this is not a self-study course, but a set of outlines that let you function as a trainer for others.
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