Coaching for Performance. GROWing Human Potential and Purpose

By John Whitmore

This major new edition is totally revised and updated with new material on coaching in a crisis and leadership for a difficult future. Coaching for Performance is the bible of the industry and very much the definitive work that all coaches stand on. This new edition explains clearly and in-depth how to unlock peoples potential to maximize their performance and contains the eponymous GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options, Will), now established as the basis for coaching professionals.  Clear, concise, hands-on and reader-friendly, this is a coaching guide written in a coaching style. It digs deep into the roots of coaching, particularly transpersonal psychology, a useful model for personal development and in-depth coaching. There are new coaching questions and fresh chapters on emotional intelligence and high-performance leadership. Whitmore also considers the future of coaching and its role in the transformation of learning and workplace relationships, as well as, illustrating how coaching can help in a crisis.