50 Top Tools for Coaching

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.

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