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BACK COVER: If you want to be a good leader, you must learn to be a good coach. Coaching is a word no longer used only in the athletic arena. Not only is it the "hottest thing in management today," according to Fortune magazine, but it is spilling over into all areas of our active lives. We are seeing personal coaches in health clubs for exercise programs, diet, and nutrition, as well as for our personal finances and business. In fact, coaching can be used in any aspect of life that requires accountability, encouragement, and a commitment to growth. Dr. Gary R. Collins, a well-known author in the field of counseling, takes the successful principles of coaching and gives them a God-centered application. Broader in scope than either mentoring or discipling, Christian coaching helps people find God?s vision for their lives and learn to live accordingly. Through stories, insights, and interviews with influential coaches, Collins gives us a model of Christian coaching. The principles can be used to bring vision, passion, and a sense of purpose to your own life, as well as equip you to guide others. You may want to become a professional coach, or simply use coaching in your personal ministry or church. Christian Coaching will help you learn the characteristics of an effective coach, how to build those characteristics into your life, and how to coach and lead others with the same leadership style Jesus demonstrated: servant leadership. If you long to make a difference in the lives of others, this book will give you the tools and skills to use coaching to impact those around you. The best coaches help others to envision the future and imagine doing things that they have never done before. With this book, you can become that kind of coach. INSIDE FLAP: Help others get from where they are to where they want to be. Hal is an engineer who works for a large company. He has a good job with an excellent income and his future looks bright. Living in a comfortable home in a desirable neighborhood, he is surrounded by others who are also highly successful, upwardly mobile young professionals. The whole family is active in a good church where Hal was recently elected as a church deacon. He and his wife teach a Sunday school class. He is a member of a health club and has enlisted the services of a workout coach and a tennis coach. From all outward appearances, Hal has it made. Why would he need a life coach? Hal is miserable. In his busy life he has no time to reflect on where he is headed or even relax and enjoy where he is now. Solitude or time alone with God never seems to happen. He would like to get off this treadmill, but doesn't know where to begin. He needs someone to come alongside him, listen, and give him honest feedback. He needs a life coach. Working with a coach, he can evaluate where he is in his life, form a vision of where he wants to go, and set priorities and goals to get there. Well-known author Gary R. Collins gives us a how-to book for becoming a Christian coach. "Coaching is the art and practice of guiding a person or group from where they are toward the greater competence and fulfillment that they desire." Coaching is not about looking back. It is about looking ahead. It is about helping people: - Discover a life purpose - Map a clearer vision for the future - Develop a mission statement - Find and articulate clear values - Learn to manage change effectively - Appraise performance - Strengthen communication skills - Get out of a rut - Build self-confidence - Gain the courage to take risks - Nurture a closer walk with God Filled with valuable coaching principles, as well as interviews with experienced and practicing Christian coaches, Christian Coaching will motivate and inspire you to help others turn potential into reality.
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Help others realize their maximum potential with a God-centered approach to life coaching.
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Do you long to make a difference in the lives of others?Every day, companies, churches, families, and individuals turn to coaches for help in navigating life's transitions. A widely used and respected resource for leaders, pastors, and counselors,
Christian Coaching will equip you with the tools to help people overcome obstacles and turn their potential into reality.
Now updated and expanded, this groundbreaking guide presents a unique biblically based coaching model, designed to help you:
- Develop and refine your active listening skills
- Connect with people on a meaningful level
- Clarify a vision and defining steps to put it into practice
- Guide someone through obstacles and life transitions
- Coach people in a variety of career, marriage, family, and church situations
- Empower people to establish healthy boundaries with friends, family, and work
- And much more
Now with interactive forms and questionnaires for you and your clients, this comprehensive guide may be the most helpful and entertaining book on coaching you'll read.
"Dr. Gary Collins takes all the vital elements of coaching and brings them together into one valuable resource. This book is essential for anyone--not just Christians--who wants to make a difference in the lives of others." --Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One Minute Manager and Lead Like Jesus Synopsis
Help others realize their maximum potential with a God-centered approach to life coaching.
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With a biblically based approach, this groundbreaking textbook for life coaching explores a new coaching model, how-to sections field-tested for more than eight years, custom forms coaches can use, and more.
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Coaching is a widely respected and highly effective way of helping people get unstuck. Companies, churches, families, and individuals are turning to coaches for help in navigating life’s transitions, obstacles, relationships, and more. This second edition of Christian Coaching is a revised, expanded, and updated version with significant new material to reflect current trends and standards in the coaching field. Dr. Collins offers you biblical principles, how-tos, and practical forms and tools to enhance your coaching skills. You’ll learn how to:
* Refine your listening and questioning skills
* Apply coaching principles in various facets of life, including church, the workplace, and marriage
* Use the reproducible forms in the back of the book to enhance your coaching
* Be more effective in helping people discover and live out God's purpose for their lives
Though used widely as a respected textbook and reference for Christian leaders, pastors, and counselors, this may also be the most entertaining book you will read on coaching. It is full of life wisdom and riveting stories that will equip you to help people get from where they are to where they want to be.
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Coaching has expanded beyond athletics to almost every aspect of life that requires accountability, encouragement, and a commitment to growth.
Dr. Gary R. Collins takes the successful principles of coaching and gives them a God-centered application. Broader in scope than either mentoring or discipling, Christian Coaching helps people find God?s vision for their lives and learn to live accordingly through stories, insights, and interviews.
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This Bible study looks at our God who can always be trusted and who is forever faithful. Leaders Guide included. 6 lessons.
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God longs for an intimate relationship with each of us. But what does it mean to be friends with the Lord? This study highlights a God who can always be trusted and who is forever faithful.
• 6 lessons
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In truth, you are his favorite, his beloved, the one he calls by name. Our Faithful Friend searches the close friendship that God wants with you. Through the experiences of Abraham, Sarah, David—even Jesus himself—you’ll study God’s promises to those seeking his friendship.
The Walking with God series contains four flexible guides that can be used in a group or individually. Each guide searches a different characteristic of God that will help you know him better. Warm, practical, and personal, the series includes easy-to-use formats and helpful leader’s notes. Most important, each guide is firmly grounded in Scripture.
Learn what it means to be a friend of God as you explore Our Faithful Friend.
About the Author
GARY COLLINS is a licensed clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Purdue University. He is the author of more than two hundred articles and more than fifty books, including The Biblical Basis for Christian Counseling (NavPress) and Christian Counseling: A Comprehensive Guide (Third edition published in 2007) and Christian Coaching (NavPress). Gary served for twenty years as professor of psychology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, was president of the 15,000-member American Association of Christian Counselors, and was founding editor of Christian Counseling Today magazine. He is Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Coaching at Psychological Studies Institute in Atlanta and Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Counseling at Regent University in Virginia. He writes a weekly newsletter on coaching and counseling and frequently travels overseas and within North America to speak on issues relating to Christian counseling and coaching.