Coaching - What Really Works

Jenny Rogers was an early entrant to the world of coaching, beginning when she ran the BBC's management development department after earlier careers in teaching, television production and publishing. She left the BBC to start her own coaching company and has been a coach ever since, specializing in the world of senior executives. As well as working with her own coaching clients, she trains and supervises other coaches. Her books range from a 4th edition of Coaching Skills: The Definitive Guide to Being a Coach, a book used around the world as the 'Bible' on how to be a coach, to her four best-selling books on the psychometric instruments, the MBTI and the FIRO-B. She has also written books about how to start a coaching business, how to navigate career crises and how to get through a job interview successfully. Jenny was married for many years to the former BBC Editor and journalist Alan Rogers. He died in 2010. She lives in central London and is close to her two sons and three grandchildren. She is a keen cook, cat lover, filmgoer and walker. Website: www.JennyRogersCoaching.com

Introduction 1. Making sure that you have a real client 2. Drawing those boundaries 3. Negotiating the confidentiality maze 4. Listening for the client's boundaries 5. Staying within your areas of competence 6. Breaking the boundaries 7. Faking it is not making it 8. Switching off judgement 9. Looking openly at the coach-client relationship 10. Being authentic 11. Exploring the backstory 12. Understanding attachment 13. Becoming trauma-aware 14. Avoiding the lure of rescuing 15. Working with rescuers 16. Coaching the perfectionist 17. Getting away from endless intellectualizing 18. Using psychometrics wisely 19. Giving feedback - carefully 20. Collecting bespoke feedback for clients 21. Understanding that change isn't as easy as it may look 22. Working with Loss 23. Coaching through crisis 24. Working on life purpose 25. Putting away the toolbox 26. Understanding the challenges of becoming a coach 27. Continuing to learn, staying connected 28. Remembering that you are vulnerable too 29. Getting a supervisor Conclusion Further Reading

An apparently simple text, this one by Jenny Rogers is in reality not only full of considerations and reflections but numerous and effective, bibliographic references, as well as advice and suggestions that arise from professional experience. -- Andrea Castiello d'Antonio