Personal coaches

Fortune magazine called it "a fascinating book." Harvey MacKay said, "Benton knows what it takes to take you to the top." Executives at companies such as Nabisco, McKinsey, AT&T, and Colgate have found Debra Benton's advice so invaluable that they have paid thousands of dollars for just one coaching session. Editors at magazines from Glamour to Entrepreneur's Business Start-ups, to Working Woman have featured Secrets of a CEO Coach and its practical guidance on moving up the corporate ladder.

Now, the advice that was worth millions to the heads of today's top companies is available in an affordable paperback. It includes timeless advice on how to:

• Control your attitude.
• Align your speech patterns with your intentions.
• Build the self-esteem of people around you.

Author: D. A. Benton
Paperback: 211 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill (2000-05-23)
ISBN: 0071360751
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Get this hands-on training guide to help you launch your coaching career.The Coach U Personal Development Workbook and Guide provides you with the tools you need to build your personal foundation — preparing yourself to successfully coach others. The detailed and flexible self-assessment lesson plans allow you to set your own pace while engaging in a continuous process of self-awareness and self-improvement. Thousands of people who have completed the personal foundation module have found it helps them to develop the critical tools necessary to become a truly effective and successful coach.

As personal and professional coaching continues to prove its benefits to businesses and individuals, Coach U, Inc., through its Coach U and Corporate Coach U divisions, remains the recognized leader for professional coach training and certification. Founded in 1988, Coach U, Inc., is the largest provider of online training for individuals interested in entering the fields of personal and professional coaching. Coach U, Inc., has educated more than ten thousand people, providing them the information, tools, and knowledge they need to successfully enter the fast-growing world of life, career, business, and corporate coaching.

Author: Coach U Inc.
Paperback: 224 pages
Company: Wiley (2005-02-03)
ISBN: 0471711756
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

For John Wooden's millions of fans–a heartfelt and revealing self-portrait about the people and events that shaped his life

Sports Illustrated declared: "There has never been a finer coach in American sports than John Wooden. Nor a finer man." ESPN selected him as the "Greatest Coach of the 20^th Century." From his birth on an Indiana tenant farm, to All-American honors at Purdue, to his historic record-setting UCLA dynasty, John Wooden is a towering figure in 20^th-century sports, and his experience and wisdom an American treasure. In My Personal Best, Coach Wooden tells how he did it and the lessons he learned on his remarkable journey.

Pairing never-before-seen photos from Coach Wooden's private collection with his personal stories and affirmations, this book encompasses the dramatic arc of Wooden's larger-than-life achievements and experiences. As he did in his perpetual bestseller Wooden, Coach offers a wealth of biographical details, personal reflections, and a lifetime of lessons. His millions of fans will cherish this definitive pictorial history of a living sports legend.

"John Wooden is a living legend because he practiced what he preached–the code of ethics which created America's strength."
–Phil Jackson, head coach, Los Angeles Lakers

"Most of what I know, what's made me a smart man, has come from John Wooden."
–Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer

"A man of John Wooden's accomplishments and integrity would stand out in any era, but now, almost three decades after he coached his last game, he is in some ways an even more striking figure."
–Bob Costas

Author: John Wooden, Steve Jamison
Hardcover: 192 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill (2004-04-09)
ISBN: 0071437924
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Want to work at home in one of the fastest growing consulting professions? Want to become that certified professional in your spare time? Train at home to become a personal/life coach!

Life coaching is currently the second largest growing consulting profession in the U.S–itÂ?s growing at a rate of 25% per year.

You can train at home to become a certified personal/life coach!

Personal/life coaches help their clients achieve their dreams by clarifying their goals, and then working with them to achieve the desired outcome, such as becoming financially secure, starting a business, or enjoying a successful relationship.

Having a coach is much like having a dedicated and focused friend who schedules time every week to urge you on to success.

This informative guide introduces you to the coach training programs that can get you started right away. Before you even quit your day job, you can train at home to become a certified personal/life coach.

Author: Michelle J. McGarry
Paperback: 108 pages
Company: Writers Club Press (2003-02)
ISBN: 0595270026
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Shows salespeople what s at the heart and soul of customer-success driven selling in 55 punchy chapters: The success of your customer is your top priority. Packed with hundreds of those one good tips you find in a single sales book, this one s a fast, no-nonsense read from two pro s with 65 years experience. Not-Real examples to help sellers spot and avoid unproductive, unprofessional patterns. Punchy, boiled-down points in short, 1-2 page chapters make it a great in-flight read that s both hard-hitting and spiritual. Shows how to increase personal and business value to customers and take selling to a higher level of Purpose. Selling Points: Real/Not Real examples give salespeople hungry for growth. Pragmatic Dos and Don ts pithy wisdom from pros. Includes self-test, call preparation checklist, opportunity board, bibliography, executive summary

Author: Keith Hawk, Michael Boland
Paperback: 128 pages
Company: Nova Vista Publishing (2008-01-02)
ISBN: 9077256172
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"In just six months I have gained tremendous clarity about how to care for my needs, live my values, and create my ideal life."
–Pat Thomas, vice president, product delivery, AT&T

"This book is your blueprint for the life you've always dreamed about having."
–Sandy Vilas, president, Coach University

Olympic athletes have a coach. CEOs use the services of an executive coach. Can you imagine how much more productive and successful you would be if you had your own life coach? You don't have to anymore! In Coach Yourself to Success, Talane Miedaner, one of the most widely recognized personal coaches in the world, provides you with the latest technology for achieving success and attracting everything you have always wanted.

Using her experience as a professional coach for hundreds of Fortune 500 clients and her own corporate background, Talane shares 101 of the most powerful and effective coaching tips and presents them in an easy-to-follow, 10-part program. Coach Yourself to Success will help you gain insight into what is truly important in your life and give you the edge to take yourself from ordinary to extraordinary.

Author: Talane Miedaner
Paperback: 304 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill (2000-10-11)
ISBN: 0809225360
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Author: Cheryl Richardson
Paperback:
Company: BANTAM DOUBLEDAY @ DELL (1999)
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How attractive are you? No, not your looks, but rather your ability to attract abundance into your life — whether in the form of success at work, solid and rewarding friendships, blue-chip clients, higher income, richer life satisfaction, deeper relationships, or more opportunities for personal and professional growth.Isn't it time you stopped grasping for success and started attracting it?

Thomas J. Leonard is the father of personal coaching, an explosively growing movement highlighted by recent features in Newsweek,The Wall Street Journal,The New York Times,The London Times,New Age Journal, and featured on NBC, CBS, and CNN. He is also the founder of Coach University, a virtual university that has trained thousands of personal coaches in thirty countries.

Here is Leonard's 28-step Principles of Attraction program — an exciting, profoundly transformational system that will reorient your approach to life and help you attract success, happiness, and fulfillment as surely as a magnet draws steel.

Originally developed for the professional coaches at Coach University for use with their tens of thousands of clients worldwide, Leonard's set of strategies draws on wisdom from psychology, career counseling, management consulting, personal growth programs, motivational training, and good old common sense. These principles have been proven to work, consistently, with virtually every type of personality, situation, or problem. Now, for the first time, they are available in book form as The Portable Coach.

Complete with Coach University's patented and challenging self-testing materials, these 28 steps open a path to achievement that won't leave you feeling hollow, soulless, or exhausted from striving. They aren't about giving yourself constant pep talks or working longer and harder than everyone around you or being the meanest shark in the corporate sea. The Portable Coach is a vigorous, highly encouraging blueprint for success, a lively new way of honoring yourself and remaking the world on your own terms! Filled with hundreds of practical guidelines, it's a fully integrated personal and professional growth system that you can pursue at your own rate of speed in a sequence determined by your most important needs and priorities.Through it, you'll fully access and maximize the brilliance and energy you already have and create a thoroughly satisfying life based on what's best about you.

The Portable Coach is the closest possible thing to having the inventor of the personal coaching movement in your corner, helping you isolate and remove all energy-wasting distractions, while becoming the creator of an environment designed to let your natural entrepreneurialism, charm, talent, and personality flourish.

You are invited to attend a Coach University teleclass, Attraction in Action. Conducted by a Certified Coach, this one-hour coaching class will teach you more about how to apply the Principles of Attraction to your own life! To register, simply call (206) 378-1000, E-mail class @theportablecoach.com, or visit http://www.theportablecoach.com.

Author: Thomas J. Leonard, Byron Larson
Hardcover: 336 pages
Company: Scribner (1998-08-06)
ISBN: 0684850419
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The Most Comprehensive TrainingTool for New and Experienced Coaches

Founded in 1988, Coach U, Inc., is the largest provider of online training for individuals interested in entering the fields of personal and professional coaching. Coach U, Inc., has educated more than ten thousand people, providing them the information, tools, and knowledge they need to successfully enter the fast-growing world of life, career, business, and corporate coaching.

Now, for the first time, Coach U, Inc., is making its complete course materials available in book form. These provide the basic foundations and training necessary to allow you to take control of your own career; enjoy personal, professional, and financial success; and experience the fulfillment that goes with providing a meaningful service to others.

Coach U, Inc.'s unique approach to training encompasses the entire development of the professional coach. From the beginnings of becoming a coach, to all the ins-and-outs of growing a successful coaching practice, this program provides a comprehensive, step-by-step approach to learning how to become a strong, ethical, and dynamic leader in the coaching field.

The Coach U Personal and Corporate Coach Training Handbook is the only comprehensive handbook currently available that provides step-by-step training for individuals seeking preparation and certification as a personal or corporate coach. Using the proven Coach U method, this book draws on a multidisciplinary approach to present a complete guide to the business and practice of personal and corporate coaching.

This helpful text features:
* Detailed coverage of the core skills and methodologies employed in personal and corporate coaching, including a chapter on ethics
* Includes coaching scenarios and case studies that demonstrate skills in action
* Chapters on marketing and selling your coaching practice and services as well as guidance on practice management

As personal and professional coaching continues to prove its benefits to businesses and individuals, Coach U, Inc., through its Coach U and Corporate Coach U divisions, remains the recognized leader for professional coach training and certification.

Author: Coach U Inc.
Hardcover: 400 pages
Company: Wiley (2005-02-10)
ISBN: 047171173X
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Are you a personal trainer or sport coach that doesn't have access to the equipment or laboratory facilities used for specialized testing? Do you need to test your clients and athletes quickly and efficiently, without buying a lot of expensive equipment?

Fitness Testing 101 includes a wide assortment of tests from each of the major fitness areas so that you can get a complete assessment of your client's or athlete's abilities and needs. Each test includes a description of objectives, equipment, testing and scoring procedures, and most have a table of norms to compare your scores against. Datasheets that can be copied and given out are provided for scoring and record keeping. Fitness Testing 101 will help you prepare training programs for your clients and athletes designed with their specific strengths and weaknesses, and give you a source of comparison to help you set goals and increase motivation.

Author: Patrick S. Hagerman
Paperback: 171 pages
Company: iUniverse (2001-03-20) (2001-03-20)
ISBN: 059516806X
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