Book Review: Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success In Work And, Life

This book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Life Coaching, the practice of assisting clients to determine and achieve personal goals. A coach will use a variety of methods, tailored to the client, to move through the process of setting and reaching goals. Bruce D Schneider is the Official Guide to Life Coaching.nn Co-Active Coaching: New Skills for Coaching People Toward Success in Work and, Life is a valuable resource for people interested in Life Coaching, and it is available through Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble.nnT&D, March 2007nThe book provides a recipe for the necessary ingredients to serve as a business coach. nnTriangle Business Journal, April 13, 2007nNew edition of this 1998 book, which ushered in the age of professional career coaching, can give you some ideas on how to help that budding executive blossom. nnSynopsisnA newly revised edition of the book that helped define the coaching profession, Co-Active Coaching captures the essence of what it takes to design and maintain successful, collaborative, and empowering coaching relationships. The authors describe in detail their flexible and adaptive model-placing the client's agenda at the heart of the coaching partnership, define the skills required for success, provide dozens of sample coaching conversations, and a power-packed Coach's Toolkit of over 35 exercises, questionnaires, checklists, and forms to make these proven principles and techniques eminently practical and immediately actionable.