Christian Coaching: Helping Others Turn Potential Into Reality - Hardcover

by Gary Collins (Author)

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

Back Jacket

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.

Author Biography

John Sloan is a freelance author and an acquisitions editor for Zondervan. His other books include The Barnabas Way: An Unexpected Path to God.