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If you are interested with Coaching materials, please join the ICF Coaching group buy at: Coaching: The Art and Practice of a Client-Centered Approach to Performance ImprovementAuthors: Terry Bacon & Karen SpearPublished: 2003Book Description: 357 pages with cover & bookmarks added.The idea for Adaptive Coaching originated in the authors’ experiences as coaches and teachers of coaching and the research base that developed out of our practice. Our twenty-five years of coaching practice, and our research on coaching, told us that most coaching clients were dissatisfied with the coaching they were receiving.What we have observed reveals a huge gap between what companies and clients expect from coaching and what it actually does for them. As a result, a work devoted to adaptive coaching is long overdue.Too many books on coaching offer simplistic views of the nature of human change and development, promote quick fixes, or make exaggerated claims about what coaching can accomplish. This book explores coaching from the client’s perspective and helps coaches understand how to adapt their coaching approach and methods to the needs, wants, and preferences of the people they are coaching. True competitive advantage comes not from new products, strategy, or process, but from human talent–from ordinary people achieving extraordinary results. Focusing on one of today’s most popular techniques for developing leaders, improving workplace performance, and facilitating change, ADAPTIVE COACHING offers a first-of-its-kind, research-based approach to creating individualized, tailor-made learning opportunities that will close the gap between what companies and clients expect from coaching and the results it delivers.Rich in detail from the authors’ work with more than 2,000 clients in Fortune 500 companies, ADAPTIVE COACHING offers a unique client-centered focus and solid research into how people prefer to be coached. Combining 30 years of experience as coaches and educators teaching others the art of coaching, Bacon and Spear deliver the tools and techniques coaches need to identify clients’ real needs, negotiate expectations, understand and adapt to different coaching style preferences, manage the dialogue, and help clients change.The authors identify eight distinct coaching styles–teacher, parent, manager, philosopher, facilitator, counselor, colleague, and mentor. They also include numerous examples of coaching dialogue and explore in detail the special challenges of coaching across cultures and generations, and of coaching women, minorities, and C-level executives.This book fills the huge gap between what companies and clients expect from coaching and what it actually does for them. Zeroing in on this popular technique to develop today’s leaders, improve performance, and facilitate change, the book shows how to deliver coaching that helps anyone achieve extraordinary results. The web page for this book is at:http://www.lorenet.com/LIB-Books.aspIf you are interested with Coaching materials, please join the ICF Coaching group buy at:, Mazen