Good book, valuable insights. Perfect for anyone on a development journey or helping to boost the development of others. Your team, your family, and your friends will thank you for reading this book.

This book is amazing! It has not only useful, but relatable advice. I would never have thought to compare leadership to coaching, but the strategies make sense. Highly recommend!

I came to this book as a professional coach, rather than as a manager, interested in different coaching models and approaches and how they might be used.

“The Coaching Effect” falls into the basket of “challenging coaching”, that is a model that proposes moving employees out of their comfort zone to create a high-growth organization. The model proposed is well-researched and the authors provide some rich stories and examples as illustration of how it works. And while the book is primarily focused on coaching sales teams, I found the theory of Growth Rings an insight that could be useful in any organisation or circumstance (including our personal lives).

The authors also challenge coaches to measure their own performance. They place the success of the team firmly at the coach’s door. Measuring inputs (coaching contacts) and outputs (changes in outcomes) seems like common sense but was an aha! moment for me (as I suspect it will be for most team leaders) because I had only ever done this through peer review. How to do this using “The Eyes of the Team” in a systematic way is explained in Chapter 3 and is well worth reading for any team leader or professional coach.

The book also provides some useful advice for those without a formal coaching background on how to conduct effective one-on-one coaching sessions/meetings, team meetings and performance feedback. Feedback is a particularly difficult area for most managers and the book is worth buying for this chapter alone. It provides a practical, easily implemented approach to feedback that any manager can implement no matter what sort of team they are leading.

However, I think the coaching model itself needs to be used with some caution. Those put under too much pressure/discomfort may not be strengthened – they could well break or run – and this may not be a desirable outcome. Unfortunately, managers are not psychologists and may not see this coming. A chapter on how to recognise the team member being left on the sidelines – and how to respond to this – would have been a good addition.

Expertly written. Finally a book that gives practical ideas to deal with every coaching situation. The supplemental tools provided with this book are priceless. I immediately felt more confident working with my next client after I finished reading this book. It really challenged me to evaluate myself and my coaching style. Allowing me to define areas in which I could grow as a coach, this providing a note valuable coaching experience for my client. This is a must read for anyone in the coaching industry. Absolutely fabulous!