This is a completely new handbook by Jenny Rogers, one of Britain’s top coaches and an executive director of Management Futures.

It is based on many years’ experience of coaching top people and training new coaches. It deals with the secret struggles and fears which coaches experience and helps the reader to acquire the multi-layered skills which are essential for becoming an outstanding coach. It addresses key issues such as:

• Creating trust
• Encouraging your client to learn
• Keeping yourself and your own agenda out of the way
• Managing yourself
• The heart of coaching - the client-coach relationship
• The different purposes of coaching and therapy

This very lively and readable book contains many real case studies. Coaching Skills is published this month by the Open University Press at £16.99.

You can buy it through Management Futures at the special price of £14 plus £1.50 p&p.