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Coaching Psychology for Professional Practice

Introducing the Coaching Psychology for Professional Practice series...

Coaching psychology is emerging as an applied and valuable discipline to support the holistic development and wellbeing of individuals.  

This series explores the latest developments in the field and how these can be applied to professional practice across a wide range of industries and disciplines, including health and wellbeing, higher education, and human resources and management. 

 

Psychology in Coaching Practice: A Guide for Professionals

Coaching psychology is developing fast as a practice-based scientific discipline. Through evidence-based case studies and reflective experiential accounts by practitioners, this book advocates the positive application of coaching psychology. Manfusa Shams explores the influence of psychology on knowledge construction in coaching and highlights the need for theoretical groundings to develop effective practice and build potential.

This book is dedicated to delivering practice-based knowledge and ethical guidance to inform professional coaching practice, and to advance coaching practice using relevant psychological paradigm. The book is divided into two key sections: practice and application. 

This book features guidance on:

  • Professional development of coaching psychology practitioners
  • How to improve coaching psychology practice with useful knowledge, skills and experiences 
  • Developing theoretical models to support best practice in coaching psychology
  • Ethical awareness and professional accountability in coaching psychology practice
  • Coaching psychology practice in the changing environment, virtual coaching, and local and global coaching

Offering a rich collection of intellectual and practical-based resources, this book is for coaching psychologists, practitioners and all who are interested in coaching. It can also be applied to a wide range of disciplines, services and service users, such as education, health and public services. 

 

Read Dr Lizana Oberholzer’s BPS Review

About the authors:

Manfusa Shams

Dr Manfusa Shams (SFHEA) is a Chartered and Coaching Psychologist, Consulting Editor of the Coaching Psychologist (BPS), and an editorial board member of the International Coaching Psychology Review (BPS). She is currently teaching at the Open University and University of Reading, UK.

 

A Coach's Guide to Team Building: Understanding Functions, Structures and Leadership


In today’s ever-changing workplace, it is important for managers and team leaders to be able to navigate challenges arising from unproductive or dysfunctional behaviour among team members. A Coach’s Guide to Team Building applies a unique coaching perspective to tackle the complex issues facing teams and their leaders. Applying psychology principles in coaching and coaching leadership has the potential to help managers adapt to hybrid teams, flexible working and portfolio careers. 

With insightful case studies and the utilisation of interview data throughout, this book contains practical tools, offers solutions to real team problems and shares key learnings from coaching, psychology and professional practice. The interviewees spanned multiple sectors, with insights into industries such as banking, education and engineering, readers can benefit from the flexible, effective approach to successfully creating and leading teams.

The book:

  • Provides a range of practical tools, from ‘how-to’ guides to checklists
  • Explores the challenges of building diversity and inclusivity into any team
  • Covers a range of industries and team dynamics

The unique blend of expertise and insight from the authors will benefit academics, coaching practitioners, and team leaders alike. Whether you are an experienced team leader or novice manager, this book offers solutions to problems facing real teams.

About the authors:

Helen Smith

Helen Smith is Faculty Head of Coaching and Mentoring in the Department of People and Performance at Manchester Metropolitan University. UK. Helen previously served as a Board Member of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) UK for over two years and is a founding member of The Greater Manchester Coaching Hub (GMCH).

Tony Wall

Tony Wall is Professor at Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and holds visiting roles in Sweden and Vietnam. Tony has published 200+ works, including global policy reports for EMCC Global. He has received numerous accolades including the Advance-HE National Teaching Fellowship and Santander International Research Excellence Awards.

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Team essentials - learn how to team

Working as part of a team is an essential skill in today’s business environment. Teams are individually context-situated and context-sensitive making each team unique. Even teams within the same organisation can be different.  

Modern organisations have become increasingly complex, flatter and need to be responsive. This means to get things done we need to develop a structure around a skilled network of highly empowered individuals, namely the Team...

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About the Coaching Psychology for Professional Practice Series
Series Editor: Dr Manfusa Shams

The Coaching Psychology for Professional Practice series aims to offer a shared learning platform for coaching psychologists and practitioners to contribute to critical coaching practice-related issues, evidence-based practice, and applications to advance effective practice with an appropriate ethical consideration. The remit of the series extends to a wide range of disciplines, services and service users (human development, education, health, public services, employment and businesses, global economy, international relations, ecology and climate change). The goal of the series is thus far-reaching to inform, educate and popularise the positive outcomes of the coaching psychology application to change, maintain and improve maximum potentials of individuals and groups across the globe. 

The content of each book in this series will be underpinned by relevant theories and models, with a focus on ‘application and practice’. 

The main objectives of this series are:
•    To consolidate ideas to develop a firm applied knowledge of coaching psychology
•    To bridge the gap between theory and practice in coaching psychology
•    To develop, promote and popularise coaching practice to optimize human potentials, and growth in effective in human functioning
•    To take a lead to deliver practice related critical issues in coaching psychology
•    To provide the platform to share good practice in coaching using critical and reflective practitioners approach
•    To disseminate knowledge about coaching psychology practice to a wide range of readers around the world.

The series is dedicated to coaching practitioners to develop good community of coaching practice, hence it is an endeavour for the practitioners by the practitioners.

We welcome book proposals in this series from all prospective authors. Please contact us to have a preliminary discussion on your proposal/s and consult the published books under this series.


Thank you.

Interested in Contributing?

If you are interested in learning more about any of the existing titles in this series or if you are interested in writing or contributing to one yourself please get in touch.

You can contact us here:

Hannah Jones - hannah.jones2@mheducation.com 

 

Praise for the series

“This book confirms to me that great team leaders and team managers have a coaching mindset, coaching skills and coaching behaviours at their core. This book demonstrates how best to be ‘coach-minded’ and gives lots of advice on how to be an excellent manager as coach (MAC) in terms of fostering confidence, humility, learning and exchange within a team.”
Dr Jenni Jones, Associate Professor in Coaching and Mentoring, University of Wolverhampton, UK

“This book takes the reader through the challenges of working with teams, the various contexts and understanding of what team effectiveness means. It provides support for team leaders, managers, supervisors and practitioners alike and therefore it is a ‘must read’ for all those in these roles.”
Professor Bob Garvey, Leeds Business School, UK

"Manfusa Shams’ book provides fresh insights to the specialist area of coaching psychology practice, providing readers with practical insights into working with individuals, the team and wider social system to help each move forward towards personal and business success. The focus on psychology in practice in this book is an important development to advance this discipline."

Professor Jonathan Passmore, SVP CoachHub & Professor Henley Business School, UK

"This book has been written by experts in the coaching and coaching psychology field. As it focuses on the professional development of practitioners, it will be of great interest to both trainees and experienced practitioners. Professionals working in areas allied to coaching may also find it of interest."

Professor Stephen Palmer PhD, Centre for Coaching, UK

“Psychology in Coaching Practice: A Guide for Professionals offers a well-considered selection of chapters that reflect the experience as well as the knowledge of the authors and editors.”

Francine Campone, Ed.D., MCC, Accredited Coaching Supervisor, Editor, International Coaching Psychology Review

 

Interested in Contributing?

 

Do you have an idea for a title in this series? We are open to submissions for this series for books of between 40,000-100,000 words using an applied approach to coaching psychology that bridges the gap between theory and practice.

For more information, please speak to:

Series Editor: Manfusa Shams at dr.manfusa.shams@gmail.com

Head of Product, Open University Press: Sam Crowe at Sam.Crowe@mheducation.com

Associate Editor: Hannah Church at Hannah.Jones2@mheducation.com

 

Additionally, you can find information about the process of writing for Open University Press on our new authors page

 

Hannah Frith - h.frith@surrey.ac.uk 

Sarah Riley - s.riley@massey.ac.nz