Appreciative Coaching: A Positive Process for Change

I was very fortunate to complete the AC workshop at Fielding Institute facilitated by 2 of the authors (Ann and Jacky) in a very dynamic web space environment. I can honestly say I have incorporated AC as the heart that moves my Career Coaching practice. Throughout the course I was coached and coached a partner by using the tools provided in the book and the results are fantastic. I truly recommend the book to anyone wanting to get out the box and facilitate clients in discovering, dreaming, designing and living their destiny. Most participants ended the book and finished the workshop with a huge desire to see more on the subject from the authors.

Appreciative Coaching is a very practical guide that helps the coach tap into the client's energy and excitement around topics, which can then be harnessed into creating a life the client really loves. The book describes the appreciative coaching method step-by-step with many examples and sample questions. I recommend the book to every coach, manager, and executive. Anyone that supervises people will find that the methods described in the book help them help others excel.

Appreciative Coaching provides a practical approach for coaches to use to energize clients to action. The book really helps to teach a coach how to ask the right questions which are central to tapping into the energy of the coachee. By honoring the coachee's inherent wisdom and knowledge and by amplifying what is going well, a coach using the Appreciative Coaching approach is able to have a clear and effective model for bringing out the innate gifts of the client. The book contains real life coaching scenarios and shows how to apply the model to these scenarios. Appreciative Coaching is a valuable resource for both novice and experienced coaches alike.

The authors of Appreciative Coaching elegantly integrate theory and practice. They have designed a framework that helps one to understand appreciative inquiry and to weave it into one's coaching practice, by providing the tools to use their design. I have shared this book with colleagues in the current coaching certification program I'm attending, and they have all quickly ordered it and thanked me for the recommendation. Thank you to the authors for their contribution to the coaching field.

I am a huge fan of the appreciative inquiry process. Appreciative Coaching takes you through the step by step process of bringing someone through the processes of identifying their dream and bringing it to reality. They even speak about letting go of the relationship when the process is complete. I can not think of a better book I have read where you end and say I know what the theory and reason is, I know how to do it, and have resources given to start the process. This is a must read!