The Process of Highly Effective Coaching offers a unique blend of theory and practical methods for conducting effective coaching conversations. It provides an umbrella under which all of the major conceptual models for helping people change can not only coexist but work together. In addition to using this integrative approach, The Process of Highly Effective Coaching presents a framework for conducting coaching conversations and for relating the coaching process to the coaching competencies defined by the International Coach Federation, the largest coach-credentialing organization in the world.
One of the best books for the beginning coach and the basis text for the Executive and Organizational Coaching program at the Univ. of Texas at Dallas. Dr. Hicks' work is based solidly in facts and neuroscience. A clinical psychologist, Dr. Hicks as build a world-class coaching program at UTD.
It’s a thorough, research-based text for coaching that isn’t woo-woo. Sometimes dry, yes, but it covers all the bases for beginners looking to coach using the foundation of psychology.