Goal-focused Coaching

This book offers a comprehensive, practical guide to goal-focused coaching. Addressing a significant gap in the literature, Ives and Cox contextualize goal-focused coaching within the broader coaching framework and explain the efficacy of this approach across a number of contexts and applications.
The book draws on behavioral science, rather than humanistic psychology, to provide a well-researched, evidence-based guide that includes:
A detailed examination of the theoretical underpinnings of this approach
A discussion of the skills, models and formats for goal-focused coaching
Cutting edge insights into barriers to coaching and managing the coaching relationship
Summaries, vignettes, references, and diagrams to aid learning
Goal-focused Coaching will be of interest to students taking classes in coaching, as well as professional executive coaches.

Yossi Ives is chairman of Tag International Development, UK. He is a life coach with a PhD in goal-focused coaching, and is the author of several books. Elaine Cox is director of the Coaching and Mentoring programme at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published extensively, and is editor of the International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring.

Preface Anthony Grant (University of Sydney) 1. Introduction 2. What is Goal-focused Coaching? 3. Goal-focused Coaching Theory 4. Goal-focused Methodology 5. Relationship Management in Goal-focused Coaching 6. The GFC Cycle 7. Team, Group and Peer Coaching with a Goal Focus 8. Goal Setting 9. Action Planning 10. Commitment in Goal-focused Coaching 11. Questioning and Listening Skills for GFC 12. The Complete GFC Process