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	Coaching for Performance: Growing people, performance and purpose (4th ed.) By John Whitmore Clear, concise, hands-on -- this guide is written in coaching style. It's one of the best introductory books on coaching. Now in an updated 4th edition. more

	The Coaching Manual: The definitive guide to the process, principles and skills of personal coaching (2nd ed.) By Julie Starr This is a wonderful manual that takes a coach through the basics and beyond. For the manager-as-coach and the professional coach. Starr is from the UK.

	Coaching in Asia: The First Decade Co-editor: Keith E. Webb The definitive guide to the principles and practices of empowering personal and organizational change in Asia.

	Coaching Questions: A Coach's Guide to Powerful Asking Skills By Tony Stoltzfus How to ask powerful questions. Tools, models, and strategies for asking. Questions in 15 popular coaching niches. Very helpful.

	Coaching Across Cultures: New Tools for Leveraging National, Corporate, and Professional Differences By Philippe Rosinski Many coaches find themselves coaching people from another culture, whether it is an ethnic, national or merely organizational difference. This book gives a coach a grid to work from in understanding and coaching across cultures. more Check out his web site: www.coachingacrosscultures.com

	TransforMissional Coaching: Empowering Leaders in a Changing Ministry World By Steve Ogne & Tim Roehl The book's unique contributions are around coaching Post-modern leaders, coaching from a holistic missional mind-set, and coaching out of character and relational authority. more

	Coaching for Christian Leaders by Linda Miller & Chad Hall A helpful introduction to Christian coaching with an explaination of coaching skills, benefits, and uses of coaching in Christian ministry. more

	The Complete Guide to Coaching at Work By Perry Zeus & Suzanne Skiffington The best reference book on the techniques and theory of coaching. It covers many different models and techniques, not just one copyrighted model of a particular author. more

	The Coaching Organization: A Strategy for Developing Leaders by James M. Hunt & Joseph R. Weintraub A thoughtful strategy for introducing developmental coaching throughout an organization. more

	Christian Coaching: Helping Others Turn Potential into Reality By Gary Collins The first book on coaching for a Christian audience. Go to Gary Collins' website.

	The Power of Ren: China's Coaching Phenomenon by Eva Wong, Lawrence Leung Inspiring stories of changing Chinese business leaders' mental models towards empowerment. more

Free Downloads These are basic introductions to coaching that you may download from the authors. These can be given to your colleagues to help explain what coaching is. (Give it 1-3 minutes to download once you click on the title.) Scaling New Heights Through Coaching (pdf - 1.1mb) Lim Luck Ser This booklet is a good introduction to coaching in the workplace - and it's free. The Startup Guide to Coaching Leaders Steve Addison Explains the GROW model with a Christian perspective.