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Coaching Perspectives

Each year, coaches who earn their Certified Professional Coach designation with the Center Coaching Perspectivesfor Coaching Certification are invited to participate in writing a chapter for a book.  The feedback on the content has been excellent and the success this quality book ensures this effort continues.

Book Review: Coaching Perspectives provides excellent insights for executive, life, and business coaching as well as expertise in specific niche areas of coaching. 

Summary: The chapters of Coaching Perspectives are:

  • Stairway to Success Coaching Model by Cathy Liska
    • A comprehensive model for ensuring excellence in coaching.
  • Connecting with Words by Sue Kugler
    • A great overview of the application of neuro-linguistic programming for coaches.
  • The Curious Coach by Dawn Brunn
    • Powerful insights on the coach’s role of asking questions.
  • Coaching with Emotional Intelligence by Pam Nintrup
    • Step-by-step use in coaching of the realms of emotional intelligence.
  • Give Yourself the Seal of Approval by Beth Cook
    • The importance of self-esteem with tips on with ideas to develop it.
  • Conscious Change by Marci McCaffery
    • Ten specific ways to create conscious change.
  • Coaching for a Job Search by Robert Plain
    • Focus and a process for effective job search coaching.
  • Life and Career Coaching for Federal Inmates by Lynne Lovett
    • Powerful insight for applying coaching in a unique situation.
  • Coaching Millennials by Dorothy Montgomery
    • Timely information on working with the newest generation in the work force.
  • Coaching Leaders for Effective Employee Relations by Arquella Hargrove
    • How coaching works in the corporate setting.
  • Harmonious Relationships: Consultant and Executive Coach by Kris Rodriguez
    • Successfully combining consulting and coaching work.
  • Learning Fusion: Effectively Integrate Coaching with Training by Paul Unni
    • The power of training combined with coaching.

The Bad:  Each chapter is unique both in content and in writing style so this book is 12 e-books combined.

The Good:  The flow of the chapters does work in terms of content and the broad overview combined with specialized expertise is excellent.

Conclusion:  A great read for coaches, clients, and those thinking about coaching.

Cathy Liska

For content specific to coach training and coaching, guest blog posts are welcome.

Most blog posts here are written or curated by Cathy Liska, Guide from the Side®, CDP, MCC.

Cathy is CEO/Founder of the Center for Coaching Certification, CCC. As Guide from the Side®, she is a sought-after trainer and coach with over 30 years of experience in business management and ownership. Cathy built her diverse team at CCC that includes trainers, customer service, and coaches. She was Co-Leader for ICF’s Ethics Community of Practice, on the Leadership Team for the review and updating of the Code of Ethics in 2024, and active in the Ethics Water Cooler. To ensure she stays current in related areas of expertise, Cathy has earned the following: ICF’s Master Certified Coach (MCC), Certified Coach Trainer, Certified Consumer Credit Counselor, Certificate of Excellence in Nonprofit Leadership and Management, Grief Support Group Facilitator, Certified in the Drucker Self-Assessment Tool, Certified Apartment Manager, Certified Civil and Family Mediator, and Certified in DISC.

Cathy’s clients range from attorneys to corporate executives, government to nonprofit, entrepreneurs to children, under or unemployed to newly retired. She specializes in communication, management, conflict, and leadership. Her personal mission statement is “People.” Cathy is known for her passion to serve others so they achieve the results they want.

Podcast: https://www.coachcert.com/podcast.html

Publications: Coaching Perspectives (a series of books with chapters by coach training graduates) https://www.coachcert.com/resources/recommended-reading/coaching-perspectives-series-by-the-center-for-coaching-certification-and-more.html

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