Coaching Understood
A Pragmatic Inquiry into the Coaching Process
- Elaine Cox - Oxford Brookes University, UK
'This book is a milestone in the coaching literature. Elaine Cox provides an excellent text that is scholarly, practical and accessible. She offers clear insights into how coaching works so that coaching is truly understood!' - Bob Garvey, Professor of Business Education, York St John Business School
'The development of the coaching literature has often been protracted and modest. In recent years, few coaching texts provided a significant leap forward in our understanding of psychological dynamics of coaching. For this reason, Cox’s Coaching Understood is a game changer. More thoroughly and systematically than ever before, this work gets under the bonnet of the coaching engine and explores the mechanics of the coaching process. For anyone wondering why coaching works, this book is your answer.' - Yossi Ives, Tag International Development, UK (International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching Mentoring)
Coaching Understood takes a fresh approach to coaching skills and techniques by examining each element of the coaching process in detail in order to verify and justify its effectiveness.
By exposing the mystery underlying coaching's success as a personal and professional development intervention, Elaine Cox undertakes to generate a better understanding of coaching, improve coaching practice, and breed a new generation of more informed coachees and buyers of coaching.
Coaching Understood is essential reading for students and practitioners alike.
The text provides a strong, coaching-specific theoretical frame in which to locate individual contributory theories. This is both novel and foundational. It is a significant aid to theoretical thinking as well as a useful review of some important contributions to key topics.
Quality course has not been formally scheduled yet due to decreased number of college students thrughout the country due to economic reasons.
The book is very good as a reference easy to read short book for managers. It can be used as one of the primary textbooks for an undergraduate college course. It can't be the solo primary college textbook as traditionally expected by students.
We in Lebanon facing culture difficulties (more than the west) as students copy textbooks and are not purchasing new ones.
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Easy to read and key text
A very useful insight in to the psychology of needs in supporting and coaching. The best text on coaching to date.
Very good book for undergraduate students that provides essential theory to practice. The depth in which the coaching process is covered allows for students to explore further information provided in lectures. Highly recommended book for both the academic and practitioner.
Well written and informative book
A useful support resource for learners focusing on leadership and management. Easy to read and useful guidance to confirm the difference between coaching and mentoring.
Great to have a text that outlines what is behind coaching!
Useful text for both educational and business practitioners.
