Something I'd like more of my bosses to have read! There were lots of useful tips and techniques that I'm excited to try out in the right setting with the right people. I liked how comprehensive this was.

I was given a copy of this book to review in exchange for my honest review.

This Fifth Edition is packed full with great tools and updated content.  Whether you are an experienced coach or a new manager wanting to incorporate coaching into your leadership, there is something for you.  For external coaches there are practical information on contracting and building a coaching practice.  I especially love the chapters on goal setting,  confidence building, and coaching during change.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book.

I’m in a management position and I found this book to be helpful in dealing with situations at work.

I just received a promotion to a position where I will be coaching my fellow technicians. I am excited to execute these tips and ideas on how to make my team the best. I will be referring back to this title in the future.

This is an informative, useful guide. I found myself highlighting and shaking my head yes while I was reading. It has tips, guidelines and advice for leaders and educators at all levels. This is a great reference book for coaches and leaders of all sorts.

A very interesting, informative and useful book that made me learn lots of new things and discover some tools that I can use for me or suggest to people who needs to coach their teams.
It's well written, plenty of examples and explanations.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I was given a copy of this book to review in exchange for my honest review. I am definitely the target audience for this book as I work in Human Resources for a large organization specifically in organizational and leadership development. But I also think there are tools here for managers and leaders who want to become better coaches to their teams. I found this book to be an absolute gold-mine of tools and ideas to use to enhance individual effectiveness, manager effectiveness and team effectiveness. I did not realize there had been previous editions of this book -why did I not know this? I have been truly missing out! These are the types of tools and variety I have been searching for. The authors are experts in coaching and the way the tools are presented give background on when to use, how to use, and hints. This new addition also includes a demonstration of the tools in action on the Kogan page website. They also have included a special section with top tools from other coaches. The authors also point out that there are different levels of mastery in these tools - transactional (such as coffee-break coaching which is a cool idea for just-in-time problem solving), transitional, and transformational.
This book is also perfect for individuals who are considering starting their own coaching practice, because there is a section on how to think about pricing, marketing, etc. I highly recommend this book -- the format makes it easy to understand the purpose of a tool and how to use it (and what to watch out for).

Jones and Gorell have a wonderful compilation of coaching tools in this fifth edition. Jones resides in the U.K. and Gorell in Australia, so they or their books may not be too familiar to a U.S. audience. With this edition, they added some new tools and kept some favorites. Each tool is described, along with when to use it, its process, the time required, and in some cases, hints and tips. There are forms, templates, tables and/or diagrams among the 15 chapters that are clearly laid out. The book shows a broad coverage of concepts and methodologies the authors’ draw on for their tools. Group coaching, coaching change or resistance to change, coaching women, and many other topics are addressed that would help external or internal coaches or someone else doing coaching, such as managers, who have their own chapter.

The many different tools with their forms or templates makes this a good reference book. You should scan each chapter, if you can’t read much of it at once, so you know what the book covers in case you need to find or use that tool later. The authors’ cover especially helpful material for those in the early stages of their coaching practice by addressing creating coaching packages, pricing and managing business processes and systems. You don’t always find a combination of tools for coaching sessions and the bigger picture of coaching businesses and/or organizational concerns in the same book. All in all, this book is a helpful and visually-oriented guide that can help someone in their first few years of coaching or even a more experienced coach looking for some fresh ideas.