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Authentic: How to Make a Living by Being Yourself
Don't bother to read this book if you are at peace with your world and happy in your work. Don't read it if you are scared of heights or unprepared to face some of your deepest fears. If you have a heart, Neil's book will touch it. If you have a conscience, be prepared to feel a dull ache and a vague unease as Neil gets inside your mind - and your soul. As if he knows you. Unless, of course, you are already fully evolved. And already your own real person. Whether you are waiting at the foothills of Mount Truth - or stuck on the Plains of Mount Purpose, Neil beckons you, and offers you a route onwards and upwards. If you are seeking knowledge or deep intellectual stimulation, then I'd 'pass' on this book for now, though it might in fact help you towards that goal. If you are content with a state of being slightly dishonest with yourself and others, or you cannot admit that you are, then again I'd 'pass'. If you already enjoy feeling fully alive, then don't read it, write the sequel? This is a book for our time if ever there was one. We can be happy - and part of the big solution - if we listen to our hearts. The way we did when we were very young.
Author - Neil Crofts

Co-active Coaching
Discusses the important qualities of a co-active coach: listening, intuition, curiosity, action/learning, and self-management.
Author - Laura Whitworth, Henry Kimsey-House and Phil Sandahl

Coaching for Performance
This edition includes additional chapters on incorporating meaning and purpose into work, into goal-setting, and a spiritual approach to coaching, together with a final section on "Coaching the Organizations' Culture". Adopted by many of the world's major corporations, this work also argues for using questions, rather than instructions and commands, and following the GROW sequence - Goals, Reality, Options, Will - to generate prompt action and peak performance. It explores the dynamics of team development and it positions coaching as the essential team leadership skill.
Author - John Whitmore

Confident Conversation
The author tells the reader what to say to anyone in almost any situation. Chapters cover topics such as greetings and meetings, being a good conversationalist, positive criticism, business situations, social gatherings, difficult or sensitive subjects, right words for special people or special encounters, relationships, giving opinions and how to be a good listener.
Author - Dr. Lillian Glass

Finding Your Own North Star
Finding your own North Star is a truly joyful book to read, with personal anecdotes, lots of case studies and exercises. The author deals first with rediscovering your "essential" self, this is about becoming aware of your emotions, working through fear, grief anger to find joy (a simplified change curve) and then about reintegrating with your "social" self (developed in response to pressures from outside). Some sections do border on therapy, but the author makes it clear when seeking counselling would be advisable. The second half of the book is based on a very simple but effective model for responding to any major changes in life and how to work through each stage. The Change Cycle starts with a 'catalytic event', taking the client through 4 squares. The first is entitled 'Death & Rebirth', the second 'Dreaming & Scheming', the third 'The Hero's Saga' and fourth 'The Promised Land'. The author shows us that any change is made up of small moves and big moves and that we are continually working our way around this cycle because, try as we might, we cannot stop change.
Author - Martha Beck

From Socrates to Sartre: The Philosophic Quest
Every staff member or client lives within one of these discourses discussed in this clear, precise survey of the Western philosophical tradition.
Author - T. Z. Lavine

Get Clients Now!
A 28 day Marketing Program for Professionals and Consultants. The Best book I have read on Marketing oneself for a long time. If you are wanting to grow your practice get this book now.
Author - C. J. Hayden

Get Everything Done - and Still Have Time to Play
Mark is known as the "Time Management" coach. He examines many different methods he has tried - what has worked for him and what hasn't, the unique issues involved in working from home, overcoming resistance and procrastination.
Author - Mark Forster

Global Mind Change
This text asserts that the late-20th century is witnessing a fundamental shift in the belief structure of Western industrial
Author - Willis Harman PhD

Of Mice and Management
This short book which you are able to read in an hour and a half is comparable to one of the best selling books on the market at the moment. This book goes further in that it deals with the pedagogy of the human condition and the way we resign and operate out of this resignation.
Author - Pat Grove

Synchronicity: the Inner Path of Leadership
Sparked by a conversation about the lack of moral and ethical standards at high levels in business, this text explores the issues of leadership.
Author - Joseph Jaworski, Peter Senge (Introduction)

The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Don Miguel Ruiz practised as a surgeon for many years, until a near-death experience made him question his belief systems and return to the ancient wisdom of the Toltecs. This guide follows the Toltec path to personal freedom, and argues that everything we do is based on agreements we make.
Author - Don Miguel Ruiz

The One Minute Millionaire: The Enlightened Way to Wealth
"The story that transforms your life and makes you rich". Here are two books for the price of one. On the right-hand-side is the fable of Michelle, who must raise a million dollars quickly or lose custody of her children. On the left-hand-side are the rules for achieving financial success.
Author - Mark Victor Hansen, Robert G. Allen

Therapist As Life Coach
This text for health professionals considers the transition into the dynamic field of life coaching. It explores life coaching as a profession, examines the relationship between life coaching and therapy, and details the variety of options for professionals considering either a transition into coaching or expanding their practices to include coaching. This work is one-stop-shopping for the therapist wishing to explore the coaching field. Chapters include: the history and evolution of life coaching; therapy and coaching; distinctions and similarities; getting started as a life coach; the basic life coaching model; developing and marketing your life coaching practice; and self-care for life coaches.
Author - Patrick Williams, Deborah C. Davis

Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues
Warren exposes the hidden forces in our organizations and in society at large that are conspiring against good leadership.
Author - Prof Warren Bennis

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