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Required Reading
Coaching to the Human Soul Ontological Coaching and Deep Change, Vol. 1
Coaching to the Human Soul breaks new ground in the literature on coaching, for it provides a comprehensive coverage of what is probably the world's most advanced approach to Executive Coaching and Life Coaching. Ontological Coaching is based on a new understanding of human beings and human interaction. Grounded in a substantive and robust theoretical framework, the method and practice of Ontological Coaching enables people being coached to connect with their souls and experience deep positive change. In this first of three volumes on Ontological Coaching, a new practical understanding of language and communication, and its coaching applications, is presented. This is a timely and invaluable contribution to progressing coaching from a fragmented industry towards becoming a profession.
Recommended Readings
It's Up To You: Learn Ten Powerful Leadership Practices
by Craig Miller
Books on leadership are often either abstract or anecdotal—they focus on concepts and theories or the stories of others. But leadership is a performance art. It’s about taking action, utilizing your skill set, and getting results. Craig Miller has crafted a no-frills, pragmatic guide to helping you design the practices you need to become a strategic, visionary leader who can effect immediate change. All you have to do is take the first step in the process.
We live in a world informed by innovation. And yet, too many leaders in the knowledge sector are relying on instinctive, outdated—sometimes even toxic—methods to guide their teams.
It’s time for management to start innovating, too. In this bold new approach to leadership, sought-after executive coach, speaker, and author Melanie Parish shows you how to approach projects and situations with a scientist’s mindset—testing hypotheses and analyzing results in a systematic way that will enable you to experiment and refine how you deal with challenges and opportunities.
The Thin Book of Trust (An Essential Primer for Building Trust at Work)
by Charles Feltman
This is a small book about a very important subject. Good work is too often sabotaged by interpersonal conflict, political infighting, apathy, or cynicism. This can almost always be traced to a breakdown in trust. It kills good work and inevitably creates fear, anger, frustration, resentment, and resignation. By contrast, in successful companies where people engage in productive conflict and debate about ideas, and have fun working together one will find strong, trusting relationships. Having the trust of those you work with is too important to leave to chance. This book will help you consistently build and maintain trust, and repair it when it’s been broken.
You don't have to do it alone. In this engaging guide to understanding and conquering the personal and professional fears that keep us from turning to others in times of need, coach Nora Klaver offers readers compelling insights on why we don't ask for help, why we should, and how to do it. Mayday! Asking for Help in Times of Need shows how to make the intimidating but potentially rewarding process of asking for help far less daunting. Using an inviting conversational style sprinkled with humor and personal stories, M. Nora Klaver first delves deeply into the social and psychological factors that keep us in isolation and then lays out a straightforward process for cultivating a mindset that will accept and invite help at home and at work.
The Field Guide to Emotions: A Practical Orientation to 150 Essential Emotions (A Practical Orientation 150 Essential Emotions)
by Dan Newby and Curtis Watkins
Humans are emotionally ignorant not because we have to be but only because we don’t make emotions a legitimate focus of learning. You may see emotions as a problem, but if you reflect on the challenges in your life you’ll find that many stem from a lack of emotional understanding of yourself or others. This can be changed.
5 Life Energies: The Choice You Have in How Energy Shapes Your Life
by Carol Harris-Fike
The flow of life energy within each of us determines how we perceive the world and how others perceive us. When we shift the direction of the flow of our life energy we shift how we move, feel, think, and speak. Yes, you have a choice in the flow of your life energy! There are 5 distinct flows of life energy: Earth, Fire, Water, Air and Center. Carol has related each of these to an archetype: Elephant, Tiger, Fish, Eagle and Tree. Any of the 5 Life Energies can work for you or against you depending on the circumstance. This book gives you the tools to find out what energies you are using (or not) in the different areas of your life, when they are working for you (or not), and how to shift them to accomplish your goals.