For Further Reading

Books

Bacon, Terry R., and Karen I. Spear. Adaptive Coaching. Mountain View, CA: Davies-Black Publishing, 2003.

The authors present models of communication between coach and client written in an accessible style. Their coaching process reflects effective coaching practices and includes many examples, both for executive coaches and for managerial coaching.

de Haan, Eric. Relational Coaching: Journeys Towards Mastering One-to-One Learning. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Eric de Haan tackles the core questions in coaching: Why it works, what the critical moments are, and how coaching looks from the client’s perspective. He has an engaging chapter on the continuing development of coaches.

de Haan, Eric, and Yvonne Burger. Coaching with Colleagues: An Action Guide to One-to-One Learning. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

This book provides impressive insights into how coaching conversations can be helpful. The authors review several major approaches to coaching and conclude with chapters on a coach’s capabilities, learning challenges, and the limits of coaching one’s colleagues. Their scope is wider than executive coaching.

Flaherty, James. Coaching: Evoking Excellence in Others. 2nd ed. Burlington, MA: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005.

Flaherty’s approach to coaching is based on insights about human existence, as applied to executives. Some coaches absolutely love this approach, and others find it confusing because it throws a very wide philosophical net around coaching.

Hargrove, Robert. Masterful Coaching. 3rd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2008.

This is a popular text, well written and comprehensive. Hargrove emphasizes a “transformational” approach that encompasses elements of an executive’s total life.

Kilburg, Richard R. Executive Coaching: Developing Managerial Wisdom in a World of Chaos. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2000.

Kilburg’s text is a very thoughtful integration of psychodynamic and systems theories as applied to executive coaching. Insightful but challenging to absorb.

O’Neill, Mary Beth. Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leaders with Their Challenges. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2007.

This well-received popular text on coaching offers good, practical advice for the new coach. O’Neill places coaching within the context of other organization development activities.

Underhill, Brian O., Kimcee McAnally, and John J Koriath. Executive Coaching for Results: The Definitive Guide to Developing Organizational Leaders. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2007.

Based on their consulting experiences, the authors offer a useful overview of the coaching field, with handy summaries and tables—all in an efficient format.

Valerio, Anna Marie, and Robert J. Lee. Executive Coaching: A Guide for the HR Professional. San Francisco: Pfeiffer, 2005.

This is a practical guide for people involved in coaching—the coach, the client, and the organizational sponsor. Highly practical, it contains useful samples and lists, as well as five first-person stories from clients.

White, Daniel. Coaching Leaders: Guiding People Who Guide Others. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005.

This book is a comprehensive text for learning to be a coach. It includes many examples and short cases. There is good explanation in here of the cognitive-behavioral approach to coaching.

Whitmore, John. Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose: The Principles and Practice of Coaching and Leadership. 4th ed. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2009.

Whitmore’s first edition was one of the pioneering books in the coaching field in 1992. His GROW model is simple and applies to many types of coaching conversations.

Articles and Excerpts

Kilburg, Richard. “Individual Interventions in Consulting Psychology.” In The California School of Organization Studies Handbook of Organizational Consulting Psychology: A Comprehensive Guide to Theory, Skills, and Techniques, edited by Rodney Lowman. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.

Kilburg’s chapter is a very thoughtful analysis of how coaching reflects the issues of consulting at the individual level. He examines human development, emotions, diagnostics, supervision, and related topics.

Peterson, David B. “Executive Coaching: A Critical Review and Recommendations for Advancing the Practice.” In APA Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology, edited by Sheldon Zedeck, PhD. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2010.

Peterson’s chapter is a review of what has been happening in the coaching field and within a coaching relationship. The literature review is extensive, and the critiques are incisive.

Ting, Sharon, and E. Wayne Hart. “Formal Coaching.” In Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development, edited by Cynthia McCauley and Ellen van Velsor. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2004.

This chapter provides a succinct framework for formal coaching by expanding the Center for Creative Leadership’s well-known development model into a coaching model. The authors outline a practical approach to assessment and feedback.

Edited Collections

Broom, Gina Hernez, and Lisa A. Boyce, eds. Advancing Executive Coaching: Setting the Course for Successful Leadership Coaching (JosseyBass SIOP Professional Practice Series). San Francisco: Pfeiffer, 2011.

A collection of chapters, each written by coaching experts addressing major topics in executive coaching. Comprehensive treatment of the field.

Fitzgerald, Catherine, and Jennifer Garvey Berger, eds. Executive Coaching: Practices and Perspectives. Palo Alto, CA: Davies-Black, 2002.

Over a dozen experienced coaches address important issues in coaching, such as being a reflective practitioner, coaching senior executives, setting up coaching within organizations, and working with entrepreneurs.

Goldsmith, Marshall, and Laurence S. Lyons, eds. Coaching for Leadership: The Practice of Leadership Coaching from the World’s Greatest Coaches. 2nd ed. San Francisco: Pfeiffer, 2006:

The twenty-six chapters in this book are by a range of professionals with business, leadership development, and consulting backgrounds, as well as a number of professional executive coaches. Several of the chapters reflect Goldsmith’s own approach to coaching.

Kilburg, Richard, PhD, and Richard Diedrich, PhD, eds. The Wisdom of Coaching: Essential Papers in Consulting Psychology for a World of Change. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2007.

This coffee-table-size collection reprints many of the coaching articles from Consulting Psychology Journal from 1996 through 2007. The thirty-nine articles explore definitions, approaches, and challenges, and offer case studies from seven practitioners.

Coaching Psychology Resources

Palmer, Stephen, and Alison Whybrow. Handbook of Coaching Psychology: A Guide for Practitioners. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2008.

Peltier, Bruce. The Psychology of Executive Coaching: Theory and Application. 2nd ed. Oxford, UK: Routledge, 2001.

These two books published by Routledge each review the field of psychology and show how various theories and approaches apply to executive coaching.

Journals

Coaching at Work. A UK-based online and print magazine that provides articles, an up-to-date reference archive, practical tips, and a place to exchange news and views on coaching.

Consulting Psychology Journal. The quarterly publication of the Society of Consulting Psychology, which is Division 13 of the American Psychological Association, has been publishing important articles about coaching since about 1996.

International Coaching Psychology Review. This international journal focuses on theory, practice, and research in the field of coaching psychology. It includes research reports and systematic reviews of the literature.

International Journal of Coaching in Organizations. IJCO is a forum for professional coaches focused on the disciplined practice of coaching within organizations. Published quarterly.

Other Resources

The Coaching Commons (www.coachingcommons.org)

As the name implies, this online news site covers all types of coaching and can be informative and stimulating.