What do you think?
Rate this book
Mastering Coaching
Coaching is one of the most sought-after leadership skills - vital for anyone who wants to develop a team of people who will perform effectively, but are also motivated and relish working together. It's also a dynamic discipline which, in recent years, has developed and grown to embrace theory and practice from a wide range of other disciplines, frameworks and models.
Mastering Coaching starts by asking what skills an effective coach must now possess to boost the performance of their coachees. In response, it summarises the most important research in areas such as neuroscience, sports psychology and mindfulness, positive psychology, mastery and goal-setting and offers a clear, simple and practical guide to how this new thinking can help coaches and managers to develop their own coaching practice.
Written by Max Landsberg, executive coaching and professional development expert and author of the perennial bestseller The Tao of Coaching , Mastering Coaching goes beyond the basics of coaching by providing insights which offer a proven route map to coaching success.
Practical and jargon-free, the book will equip readers with the techniques and tools necessary to take their coaching to the next level.
Mastering Coaching starts by asking what skills an effective coach must now possess to boost the performance of their coachees. In response, it summarises the most important research in areas such as neuroscience, sports psychology and mindfulness, positive psychology, mastery and goal-setting and offers a clear, simple and practical guide to how this new thinking can help coaches and managers to develop their own coaching practice.
Written by Max Landsberg, executive coaching and professional development expert and author of the perennial bestseller The Tao of Coaching , Mastering Coaching goes beyond the basics of coaching by providing insights which offer a proven route map to coaching success.
Practical and jargon-free, the book will equip readers with the techniques and tools necessary to take their coaching to the next level.
256 pages, Paperback
First published October 1, 2015
37 people are currently reading
148 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews
July 17, 2018
The book provides a good outline of tools that can be used in coaching. I would have preferred if the author had gone deeper into each topic.
May 27, 2020
Landsberg "Tao of Coaching" was a much better work in my opinion. This book takes off from where he left off in the previous work. Some of the more advanced concepts of coaching are given a cursory treatment in this work...
February 26, 2025
Highly useful starting point for getting the lay of the land for a coach developing their learning agenda. Somewhat useful for learning and applying practical frameworks to their coaching practice.
I’m guessing I’ll find this more useful as an early stop when looking for ideas and have already developed a great todo list of areas that sound high potential for deeper study.
I’m guessing I’ll find this more useful as an early stop when looking for ideas and have already developed a great todo list of areas that sound high potential for deeper study.
February 24, 2019
Not really a coaching book but a practical collection of management tools
February 25, 2019
Overall a decent book to get you started/interested in the subjects it focuses on
January 18, 2024
Ancora imparro. There are so much to learn.
March 11, 2016
One of the areas I would like to explore more is the world of coaching. 2016 started off with reading this book prior to attending an NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Coaching course. This allowed me to understand and come prepared for the course. Mastering Coaching provides a solid foundation of what coaching is about, the various areas of coaching (psychometrics, sports, positive, experiential etc.) along with a number of tools.
The biggest misunderstanding is on what coaching is. Landsberg clears this up with a clear difference from mentoring, counselling and therapy; he refers to coaching as "facilitating self-directed neuroplasticity."
The book is divided into three areas to provide the reader detail on the science, strategies and situations when coaching. There are plenty of diagrams and examples cited from experts in the neuroscience field. It is an excellent starter manual to the world of coaching. Landsberg also provides a plethora of additional reading options throughout the book for those that want to delve deeper into the various topics discussed.
Three key takeaways from the book:
1. Coaching is very different to mentoring, counselling, and therapy. The best metaphor I can use is to lead a horse to water but not the horse drink
2. Multi-tasking. I am continually reading the message that the brain is built to process one task at a time. If we multi-task, we reduce the brain's overall speed and accuracy
3. Experimental learning and the 70/20/10 rule. Individual learning comes is 70% self-directed, 20% from specific people, 10% from reading/training
The biggest misunderstanding is on what coaching is. Landsberg clears this up with a clear difference from mentoring, counselling and therapy; he refers to coaching as "facilitating self-directed neuroplasticity."
The book is divided into three areas to provide the reader detail on the science, strategies and situations when coaching. There are plenty of diagrams and examples cited from experts in the neuroscience field. It is an excellent starter manual to the world of coaching. Landsberg also provides a plethora of additional reading options throughout the book for those that want to delve deeper into the various topics discussed.
Three key takeaways from the book:
1. Coaching is very different to mentoring, counselling, and therapy. The best metaphor I can use is to lead a horse to water but not the horse drink
2. Multi-tasking. I am continually reading the message that the brain is built to process one task at a time. If we multi-task, we reduce the brain's overall speed and accuracy
3. Experimental learning and the 70/20/10 rule. Individual learning comes is 70% self-directed, 20% from specific people, 10% from reading/training
July 10, 2017
A wonderful book with applicable tools to sail in the ocean of Coaching. As a Coach it doesn't matter if you are newbie or expert, you'll need this book dear.
Displaying 1 - 8 of 8 reviews