Book Summaries

Sales coaching works. Crushing Quota breaks the process down into manageable components.

In Passion Purpose Profit: 9 Keys to Building an Authentic Executive Coaching Business, author Donna Karaba shares how you can be the parent of your dreams and do the work you love.

The Coaching Effect details measurable and quantifiable coaching activities that have led to improved performance and sustained team growth.

Coaching has traditionally focused entirely on the individual...sometimes even at the expense of improving measurable business results for the company. Now, The Coaching Connection shows managers how they can use contextual coaching to simultaneously promote both individual and organizational growth.

A Manager's Guide to Coaching is a manual that will guide executives through every step of the coaching process, from problem solving to developing accountability.

Jack Canfield, coauthor of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series, and Dr. Peter Chee offer a practical guide of 30 principles that every coach needs to succeed. Learn how the Coaching Principles representing the heart of a coach, the Situational Coaching Model representing the mind of a coach, and the Achievers Coaching Techniques representing the energy of a coach can build upon each other to empower people to achieve breakthrough success.

In Confessions Of The Accidental Career Coach, successful coach Cara Heilmann pulls back the curtain, revealing what it really takes to succeed.

Nolan Bushnell founded the groundbreaking gaming company Atari in 1972, and two years later employed Steve Jobs, as well as many other creatives over the course of his five decades in business. Here Bushnell explains how to find, hire, and nurture the people who could turn your company into the next Atari or the next Apple. Bushnell's advice is constantly counter-intuitive, surprising, and atypical. When looking for employees, ignore credentials. Hire the obnoxious (in limited numbers)...

The Action Coaching methodology provides organizations and their coaching-minded leaders with the knowledge and tools required to evaluate problem situations, mediate effective solutions and align the needs and behaviors of employees to the organizational imperatives of their companies.