Coaching and Mentoring
A Critical Text
- Simon Western - Analytic-Network Coaching Ltd
1. The Soul Guide Coach: coaching the 'inner-self', focusing on values, authenticity and identity.
2. The Psy Coach: coaching the 'outer-self', using psychological techniques to focus on personal performance and how we relate to others.
3. The Managerial Coach: coaching the 'role-self', focusing on work, task, output and productivity.
4. The Network Coach: coaching the 'networked-self', focusing on the wider networks in which we live and work.
This vital new book brings a fresh and critical perspective on coaching and mentoring, challenging its taken-for-granted assumptions and narratives. It is written by a practitioner-scholar, and develops an exciting vision for coaching today.
Key features:
- Accounts for the diverse influences on contemporary coaching practice
- Reveals how coaching is the new 'post-modern confessional'
- Develops a meta-theory of coaching that acts as a baseline for future developments
- Offers frames of thinking to guide coaching and mentoring practitioners and educators.
Very readable text from an author with a clear passion to build a real sense of criticality and reflectivity to both coaching theory and practice. A real addition to the body of knowledge on key coaching and mentoring processes and thinking.
Valuable and insightful addition to the bookshelf
The critical approach is interesting for academic discussion but was not suitable for the aims of the course which were more related to concrete coaching procedures.
An interesting text which challenges some mainsteam understandings of mentoring and coaching.
good and adopted
I have used this to develop the strand of Coaching and Mentoring on our Mathematics Specialist Teacher course.
I haven't adopted it for students as yet but it will be useful for the cross-college mentor training I will be contributing to in the future.
A well written text but its structure is different from what I teach.
This books gives a very good ovrview of Mentoring and coaching styles, and underpins practice and discussions
This is well written text with specific issues for developing mentee in the workplace.
