The Coaching Companion is a short book written to new coaching clients. It is our hope to put this resource into the hands of every person who receives professional coaching - whether in the domain of leadership, career, health, or life. Use of this resource will elevate the quality of coaching for even the most masterful of coaches. Why? The impact of coaching is a result of not only the coach's skill, but also the clients' ability to fully the leverage the coaching they receive. Coaches' skills are based on hundreds if not thousands of hours of training and experience. Clients, on the other hand, have few if any resources or experiences on which to build their capacity to be coached. Given that the coach's success is, by definition, the client's success, we believe that building client's capacity to be coached is a critically important. Clients, consider this: You are investing your time and resources in coaching. You have made every effort to select the best coach, and you're hoping that this coach can help you succeed in at least one big way. The Coaching Companion is filled with guidance on how to maximize your coaching experience. It will help you prepare for coaching conversations, communicate your goals and experiences clearly, translate insight into action, and ultimately maximize your return on investment. Coaches, consider this: Our clients are more than half the equation. How they show up and what they do throughout the coaching process determines their success...any by extension, ours. Rarely do we, as coaches, have the time we might like to prepare our clients to get the most from their coaching experience. And rarely are we sitting with our clients when they come across the situations they can learn from. The Coaching Companion helps our clients understand the importance of their role in the growth process so that they may approach their personal and professional development more thoughtfully and intentionally. It will allow you, their coach, to get more quickly into meaningful conversation. Integrating The Coaching Companion into your practice is simple. Gift this book to your clients at the beginning of each engagement. Consider which chapters you'd like them to read prior to your kickoff session, and where other chapters may support your style and approach to coaching along the way.

Introducing "Elevate Your Coaching Game: The Ultimate Business Coaching Companion" – the ultimate guide for anyone looking to take their coaching skills to the next level! Business coaching has become an essential tool for individuals and organizations seeking to achieve success, but with so many resources and approaches available, it can be challenging to know where to start. That's why we've created this comprehensive guide, packed with practical guidance and resources to help you elevate your coaching game and achieve your goals. Whether you're a seasoned coach or just starting in the industry, this guide offers a deep dive into the world of business coaching, covering a wide range of topics and strategies to help you develop your skills, overcome challenges, and achieve success. From the fundamentals of coaching to specific areas like leadership, time management, effective communication, and goal-setting, this guide has it all. With "Elevate Your Coaching Game," you'll learn the key benefits of coaching, the role of the coach, and the different types of coaching available. You'll also explore the most effective strategies for developing your coaching skills, identifying strengths and weaknesses, developing effective performance metrics, and improving communication skills. This guide is an essential resource for anyone looking to improve their coaching skills and achieve success in business. With practical guidance and resources on a wide range of topics, "Elevate Your Coaching Game" offers the ultimate toolkit for anyone looking to elevate their coaching game and achieve their goals. So why wait? Elevate your coaching game today with "Elevate Your Coaching Game: The Ultimate Business Coaching Companion." Order now and start achieving success like never before!

The Provocative and Practical Guide to Coaching Agile Teams As an agile coach, you can help project teams become outstanding at agile, creating products that make them proud and helping organizations reap the powerful benefits of teams that deliver both innovation and excellence. More and more frequently, ScrumMasters and project managers are being asked to coach agile teams. But it’s a challenging role. It requires new skills—as well as a subtle understanding of when to step in and when to step back. Migrating from “command and control” to agile coaching requires a whole new mind-set. In Coaching Agile Teams, Lyssa Adkins gives agile coaches the insights they need to adopt this new mind-set and to guide teams to extraordinary performance in a re-energized work environment. You’ll gain a deep view into the role of the agile coach, discover what works and what doesn’t, and learn how to adapt powerful skills from many allied disciplines, including the fields of professional coaching and mentoring. Coverage includes Understanding what it takes to be a great agile coach Mastering all of the agile coach’s roles: teacher, mentor, problem solver, conflict navigator, and performance coach Creating an environment where self-organized, high-performance teams can emerge Coaching teams past cooperation and into full collaboration Evolving your leadership style as your team grows and changes Staying actively engaged without dominating your team and stunting its growth Recognizing failure, recovery, and success modes in your coaching Getting the most out of your own personal agile coaching journey Whether you’re an agile coach, leader, trainer, mentor, facilitator, ScrumMaster, project manager, product owner, or team member, this book will help you become skilled at helping others become truly great. What could possibly be more rewarding?

"An excellent resource for both beginning and experienced literacy coaches. This well-conceived book is grounded in a realistic understanding of what it means to work collaboratively and effectively in the demanding world of today′s schools." —Dorothy S. Strickland, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Professor of Education Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey "If a coach could only have one book to help with the daunting task of advancing teachers′ instructional knowledge and skills, then this is the text to own. Coaches everywhere have been waiting for a book like this!" —Connie Molony, Reading Intervention Specialist Fargo Public Schools, ND A concise reference with essential protocols for successful early literacy coaching! Literacy coaches have become an increasingly important part of school literacy teams. As a result, there is a greater need for understanding the issues related to this growing position. This book addresses those issues and highlights the expanding role of literacy coaches in early and elementary literacy programs. Chapters feature user-friendly guidelines and evidence-based strategies for sustained professional development, protocols for classroom observations and teacher conferences, and vignettes offering solutions to common coaching challenges. Coaches will discover how to: Define an effective, proactive role in promoting literacy initiatives Strengthen content knowledge and coaching skills to support teachers′ efforts and students′ literacy development Collaborate with teachers and school leaders to establish productive learning communities Communicate their changing roles to administrators Insightful and thought-provoking, The Literacy Coach′s Companion, PreK–3 is a must-have resource for pursuing professional growth as a literacy coach.

Leading with Mastery and Heart: The Coaching Companion for Thriving Nurse Leaders provides expert, on-the-spot coaching for nurses who lead. Content centers on topic-specific columns that feature an easy-to-read, personable writing style not found in any other leadership title. Just a few of the hot topics covered in this collection are: how to stay centered and positive in the midst of highly stressful situations; how to manage resistance and negativity; how to provide inspiration along with direction; and how to combat limiting circumstances and beliefs. With its wealth of proven, real-world advice, Leading with Mastery and Heart: The Coaching Companion for Thriving Nurse Leaders is perfect for any current or aspiring nurse manager or executive looking to quickly and effectively hone their leadership skills. - Well-organized collection of over 60 columns on leadership excellence for nurses covering topics such as the challenges of being new on the job, what change really means, managing resistance, developing others in challenging times, and coaching your boss - Practical advice based on real circumstances in real healthcare organizations offering true to life examples and successful solutions that apply to nurse leaders at all levels. - Emphasis on self-awareness reflecting the extensive research validating that the more self-aware we are, the better leaders we become - Concrete and immediate solutions providing uncommon insight and guidance for even the most intractable challenges

From age-appropriate drills to motivation strategies, this step-by-step guide to youth baseball offers all the information parents and coaches need to help young players reach their full potential.

This new edition of The Keyed Bugle is an expansion rather than a revision of the first edition. The performance practice discussion has been extended to cater to the needs of the reader who wishes to learn the instrument. All chapters contain new information, and the chapters on Performers, Makers and Sellers have been extensively expanded. An additional chapter offers an explanation of the peculiarly distinct acoustics of keyed bugles and provides an analysis of construction styles employed by particular makers. After closely researching instruments that have been documented by the signatures of specific firms and comparing them with unmarked examples, the author enables readers to make confident observations on the nature of regional and manufacturer's styles. The new research in this area provides the groundwork for informed speculation about the origins of undocumented keyed bugles. This work puts the best of current research on the instrument into book form and provides the collector, performer, and serious music student with a clear picture of the instrument's history, repertoire, and technique.