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Essential
Knowledge
for Personal
Coaches
Dean Amory
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Title: Essential Knowledge for Personal Coaches
Compiled by: Dean Amory
Dean_Amory@hotmail.com
Publisher: Edgard Adriaens, Belgium
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ISBN: 978-1-4716-6926-2
© Copyright 2011, Edgard Adriaens, Belgium, - All Rights
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information found in other books and using the internet. It
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The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your
riches, but to reveal to him his own. – Benjamin Disrael
Cover picture: 70-ies commercial ad
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
4/ INTRODUCTION..............................................................877
4/ USEFUL SKILLS ..............................................................878
4.1. PROBLEM SOLVING ...................................................878
4.2 DEALING WITH OBSTACLES AND RESISTANCE901
4.3 FIXING GOALS..............................................................934
4.4 MOTIVATING OTHERS ..............................................949
4.5 SURFING THE FLOW SPIRAL ...................................956
4.6 INCREASING SELF ESTEEM .....................................976
4.7 RESOLVING CONFLICT .............................................995
4.8 DYSFUNCTIONAL PERSONALITY TYPES...........1008
4.9 DEALING WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE ...................1013
4.10 LEARNING STYLES .................................................1034
4.11 CHANGE MANAGEMENT .......................................1050
4.12 THE GRIEF CYCLE ...................................................1082
4.13 KNOWING AND NOT KNOWING...........................1089
4.14 RELAPSE PREVENTION ..........................................1156
4.15 BRAINSORTMING.....................................................1159
4.16 DESENTISATION .......................................................1175
4.17 BUILDING ASSERTIVENESS ..................................1176
4.18 ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS.........................................1178
4.19 THE JOHARI WINDOW............................................1180
4.20 DECISION MAKING..................................................1183
4.21 TIME MANAGEMENT ..............................................1188
4.22 STRATEGIC PLANNING ..........................................1223
4.23 ACTION PLANNING..................................................1244
4.24 THE POWER OF HABITS .........................................1254
4.25 THE ART OF DELEGATION ...................................1258
4.26 AFFIRMATIONS AND POSITIVE THINKING .....1266
4.27 STAGES OF THE CHANGE CONTINUUM............1275
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4.28 CONGRUENCE ..........................................................1280
4.29 AUTHENTICITY........................................................1282
4.30 PARADIGMS ..............................................................1286
4.31 BALANCE ...................................................................1290
4.32 EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE (E.Q.)...................1297
4.33 THE FIVE FREEDOMS.............................................1305
4.34 GENDER DIFFERENCES.........................................1311
4.35 PITFALLS FOR COACHING ...................................1314
4.36 FEAR ............................................................................1315
4.37 TEAMWORKING AND TEAMROLES ...................1322
4.38 ANGER MANAGEMENT ..........................................1326
4.39 LEADERSHIP STYLES..............................................1358
4.40 SWOT ANALYSIS.......................................................1392
4.41 THINGS YOU WISH YOU HAD KNOWN SOONER1416
4.42 HOW TO INFLUENCE PEOPLE..............................1447
4.43 THE MINTO PYRAMID PRINCIPLE......................1457
5 EXAMPLES OF COACHING DOCUMENTS ..............1460
5.1 EXAMPLE OF GENERAL INFORMATON FORM 1460
5.2 EXAMPLE OF COACHING AGREEMENT............1466
5.3 EXAMPLE OF COACHING COMMITMENTS.......1471
5.4 EXAMPLE OF ASSESSMENT FORM ......................1473
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