Coaching Psychology: A Practitioner's Guide -- Copyright -- Contents -- About the Author -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Aims -- Who is it For? -- Content in a Nutshell -- How to Use this Book -- 2 Current State of Coaching and Coaching Psychology: Where are you now? -- Introduction -- Developments in Coaching and Coaching Psychology -- The Coaching Matrix -- Academic and professional institutions -- Business and management consultancies -- Independent practitioners -- Internal coaches and mentors -- Developing Your Skills and Knowledge -- Ethical Principles -- Definition of ethics -- Chapter Summary -- 3 The Foundation of Coaching Psychology: Being positive and learning how to learn -- Introduction -- How About Being Positive? Positive Psychology and its Implication for Coaching -- Applying Learning to Coaching -- Psychology of Learning -- The learning process -- Reflective learning -- Constructive-developmental theories -- Social learning theories -- Applying Psychology of Learning to Develop a Coaching and Mentoring Framework -- Chapter Summary and Reflection -- 4 Definitions: Coaching psychology, coaching, mentoring and learning -- Introduction -- Definitions of Mentoring and Coaching -- Definition of Learning -- Definition of Coaching Psychology -- Proposal of a Universal Integrative Framework for Coaching Psychology -- Chapter Summary and Reflection -- 5 Becoming a Learning Organization through Coaching and Mentoring: How do you introduce a coaching/mentoring programme into an organization? -- Introduction -- Challenges of the Changing World -- Learning from case studies -- Meaning of change -- Getting started -- A Learning Organization is a Competent Organization -- Strategy and Strategic Planning -- An analytical approach to strategy development -- A learning approach to strategy development.

A revolutionary approach to strategy development -- Organizational learning -- Knowledge and knowledge management -- Learning Organization and Psychology of Learning -- Leadership and Organizational Coaching -- Psychometrics in Organizations -- Developing a Coaching Culture -- Chapter Summary and Reflection -- 6 GROW Model and Universal Integrative Framework: Build your own model and apply it -- Introduction -- Theories, Model, Techniques and Skills -- The GROW Model -- A typical GROW coaching session -- The Universal Integrated Framework (UIF) -- Dimension I: Personal competences -- Dimension II: Social competences -- Dimension III: Cultural competences -- Dimension IV: Professional competences -- UIF Revisited -- Building Your Own Model of Coaching -- Chapter Summary and Reflection -- 7 Techniques and Tools: What is in your tool box? -- Introduction -- Tools for Developing the System of Self -- Tools for Developing Your Self - Awareness and Managing Your Emotion -- Gestalt approaches -- Gestalt psychology and neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) -- Using the NLP meta model in coaching -- Anchoring -- The paradoxical theory of change -- Gestalt techniques -- Managing Your Self - Your Cognition and Emotion - Cognitive Behavioural Coaching (CBC) -- The Social Context in Coaching or Mentoring - The Self and Others -- The ABC existential model of coaching -- Choice - We have to choose! -- Applying the existential model to coaching -- Existential coaching applications -- Techniques that are Sensitive to Self and Others' Culture - Narrative Approaches -- Re-authoring -- Re-membering conversations -- Outsider witness re-telling and definitional ceremony -- Summary and reflection on narrative coaching -- Putting it All Together - Principle of Empowerment Psychology for Coaching -- Empsy® model of situation -- Empsy® model of intervention.

Chapter Summary and Reflection -- 8 Practical Exercises: Time to practise -- Introduction -- ILS Training and CPD -- Writing and keeping a reflective log -- Exercises in learning -- Running a Coaching/Mentoring/Training Session -- Preparation -- During the session -- End of session -- After the session -- NLP Coaching Exercises -- Meta model exercise -- Anchoring -- Dissociation -- Gestalt Exercises -- Existential exercises -- Narrative/Storytelling Exercises -- Externalizing conversation -- Re-authoring conversation -- Re-membering conversation -- Group exercise: outsider witness re-telling -- Chapter Summary -- 9 Collecting Your Own Successful Stories: Building a database of good practice -- Introduction -- The process -- Cognition and emotion -- Reflection -- Learning -- The process -- Reflection -- The process -- Evaluation -- The process -- Reflection -- The process -- Reflection -- Evaluation -- Coaching or Counselling? A Case Study -- Chapter Summary and Reflection -- 10 Evaluation and Evidence-based Coaching: Why is it important? And how to … -- Introduction -- Levels of Evaluation -- Large-Scale Evaluation -- Step 1: Rationale -- Step 2: Objectives -- Step 3: Appraisal -- Step 4: Monitoring -- Step 5: Evaluation -- Quantitative Analysis and Evaluation of Coaching Models -- Research and Evidenced-based Coaching -- Step 6: Feedback -- Chapter Summary -- 11 Reflection and Resources: Where can I get further training, support and information? -- Personal Reflection -- Academic institutions, Professional Societies and Government Body -- Academic institutions -- Professional societies for psychology and coaching psychology -- Government body for regulating registered psychologists -- Appendix: Writing Your Own Reflective Log -- References -- Index.