Simplifying Coaching: How to Have More Transformational Conversations by Doing Less, 2nd Edition

Table of contents


Chapter 1: It’s a Journey
Chapter 2: Simple Listening: Notice don’t diagnose
Chapter 3: Simple Beginnings
The First 5 Minutes
Where are we Heading?/ How Will You Know?
Chapter 4: Simple Questions
Chapter 5: Simple Exploring
Chapter 6: Simple Endings
Chapter 7: Presence, Partnership and Power
Chapter 8: Simple Conversations in Real Life
Chapter 9: The Journey Continues

Pedrick’s approach is about stripping coaching down to its essence: listening, being present, and enabling clients to find their own solutions.
Fundamentally, coaching is about enabling someone to feel heard and to access new insights into their own life. But how can you facilitate someone else’s thinking when you don’t know what they already know? It is almost impossible to remember models and questions whilst giving your companion your full attention at the same time. Coaching simply means that you can listen and notice more, getting quickly to the heart of the conversation.
Whether you are brand new to coaching, are a trained coach who has lost confidence, or have many years’ experience coaching at a senior level, this deeply practical book will teach you how to:
• Do less so that your companion can do more
• Understand why saying what you see is more useful than listening to any particular story
• Put boundaries around a conversation, making it more effective for your companion and easier for you
• Tailor how you sit and how you speak to allow a collaborative environment
• End any conversation in partnership
Tailored to help the practising coach, this book is nonetheless useful for anyone who has conversations with people.