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The Coaching Shift: How A Coaching Mindset and Skills Can Change You, Your Interactions, and the World Around You offers practical guidance on how to adopt a coaching mindset and how to build a coaching skill set to unlock better communication, stronger relationships, and high performance in others. Accessible and practical, the book draws on research from coaching, neuroscience, cognitive psychology, social psychology, and industrial-organizational psychology to provide the best science-based practices that can be applied in work and life. It presents core coaching skills that anyone can develop and use to improve their own emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and interactions with others. It uses levels of analysis to help readers think about key concepts first in relation to themselves, and then in 1:1 interactions, group and team dynamics, organizational-level impact, and beyond. The book offers specific and tangible advice for readers to develop their coaching and communication skills, while also developing a deeper understanding of themselves. The Coaching Shift, with its clear tone, anecdotal references, and practical application, will be essential reading for coaches in practice and in training, and for academics and students of coaching and coaching psychology. These concepts and practices are also relevant for anyone who wants to have more effective interactions with others.

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"Winner of the 2023 Firebird Book Awards for Business Book ""Shonna D. Waters & Brodie Gregory Riordan have done an extraordinary job of capturing the tools, techniques, and fundamentals needed to successfully build out impactful coaching skills. Their content is deeply pragmatic; through stories, examples, and reflection exercises Coaching Skills empowers readers to unlock one’s potential to show up as more curious, present, engaged, and supportive with others. This is a must-read book for anyone who wants to up-level their ability to manage in an organization, lead a team, engage a business partner, or navigate a relationship."" Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez, PsyD, BCC, Author of The Burnout Fix and Vice President, Coach Innovation, BetterUp. ""The best leaders I have worked with, whether within the 75th Ranger Regiment, the world of entrepreneurship, or within McKinsey and Company, Waters and Riordan were the best coaches. These leaders have the self awareness to know that is it more fun and rewarding once we shift from needing to have all the answers, and instead focus on much more effective and scalable ways we can coach ourseves and others - this book gives you the tools you need to achieve this."" Neil Markey, Co-Founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats ""With the autonomy of hybrid work comes the opportunity and challenge to take greater command of our own paths to full potential and to process relationships differently. ‘Coaching Skills’ wisely pivots the focus from coaching up others to coaching up ourselves first. It provides a fresh approach to self-reflection and self-actualization that can unlock new levels of success and well being. And spoiler alert: By strengthening the skills to coach myself, I feel emboldened to facilitate a similar journey in others in a more authentic way. And hasn’t that always been the holy grail of coaching from the start? Brilliant move by authors, Waters and Riordan, to know better than to just teach us how to coach others."" Joe Fernandez, SVP of Global Sales at OnFrontiers ""If you’re looking to understand the why and the how through real examples and coaching tools you can put in practice for you or your team this a must read. The Coaching Shift provides the unique combination of teaching the “what” of coaching through concepts and theories AND the “how” of coaching through relatable stories and tools that help you learn more about coaching yourself, team or others from the first chapter through the last chapter. This book lays the platform for continual growth in way that you not only learn how coaching leads to growth but in a way that you can start enacting changes as soon as you complete the first chapter. Waters and Riordan uniquely explains concepts, with stories, and templates for growth to help the reader learn, and support learning of others."" Kimberly Corbitt, Senior VP, People & Culture at Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury ""I thought I knew what it meant to be a great coach – then I read Coaching Skills and it changed everything. Dr. Waters and Dr. Riordan take you on an artful and science-based journey to explore your own life and relationships and share simple and easy ways to use Coaching Skills as a leader, teammate, partner and friend. I recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their life and those around them."" Andrew Biga, Chief People Officer at GoHealth Urgent Care"

Shonna D. Waters & Brodie Gregory Riordan have done an extraordinary job of capturing the tools, techniques, and fundamentals needed to successfully build out impactful coaching skills. Their content is deeply pragmatic; through stories, examples, and reflection exercises Coaching Skills empowers readers to unlock one's potential to show up as more curious, present, engaged, and supportive with others. This is a must-read book for anyone who wants to up-level their ability to manage in an organization, lead a team, engage a business partner, or navigate a relationship. Dr. Jacinta M. Jimenez, PsyD, BCC, Author of The Burnout Fix and Vice President, Coach Innovation, BetterUp. The best leaders I have worked with, whether within the 75th Ranger Regiment, the world of entrepreneurship, or within McKinsey and Company, Waters and Riordan were the best coaches. These leaders have the self awareness to know that is it more fun and rewarding once we shift from needing to have all the answers, and instead focus on much more effective and scalable ways we can coach ourseves and others - this book gives you the tools you need to achieve this. Neil Markey, Co-Founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats

Shonna D. Waters & Brodie Gregory Riordan have done an extraordinary job of capturing the tools, techniques, and fundamentals needed to successfully build out impactful coaching skills. Their content is deeply pragmatic; through stories, examples, and reflection exercises Coaching Skills empowers readers to unlock one's potential to show up as more curious, present, engaged, and supportive with others. This is a must-read book for anyone who wants to up-level their ability to manage in an organization, lead a team, engage a business partner, or navigate a relationship. Dr. Jacinta M. Jimenez, PsyD, BCC, Author of The Burnout Fix and Vice President, Coach Innovation, BetterUp. The best leaders I have worked with, whether within the 75th Ranger Regiment, the world of entrepreneurship, or within McKinsey and Company, Waters and Riordan were the best coaches. These leaders have the self awareness to know that is it more fun and rewarding once we shift from needing to have all the answers, and instead focus on much more effective and scalable ways we can coach ourseves and others - this book gives you the tools you need to achieve this. Neil Markey, Co-Founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats With the autonomy of hybrid work comes the opportunity and challenge to take greater command of our own paths to full potential and to process relationships differently. 'Coaching Skills' wisely pivots the focus from coaching up others to coaching up ourselves first. It provides a fresh approach to self-reflection and self-actualization that can unlock new levels of success and well being. And spoiler alert: By strengthening the skills to coach myself, I feel emboldened to facilitate a similar journey in others in a more authentic way. And hasn't that always been the holy grail of coaching from the start? Brilliant move by authors, Waters and Riordan, to know better than to just teach us how to coach others. Joe Fernandez, SVP of Global Sales at OnFrontiers If you're looking to understand the why and the how through real examples and coaching tools you can put in practice for you or your team this a must read. The Coaching Shift provides the unique combination of teaching the what of coaching through concepts and theories AND the how of coaching through relatable stories and tools that help you learn more about coaching yourself, team or others from the first chapter through the last chapter. This book lays the platform for continual growth in way that you not only learn how coaching leads to growth but in a way that you can start enacting changes as soon as you complete the first chapter. Waters and Riordan uniquely explains concepts, with stories, and templates for growth to help the reader learn, and support learning of others. Kimberly Corbitt, Senior VP, People & Culture at Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury I thought I knew what it meant to be a great coach - then I read Coaching Skills and it changed everything. Dr. Waters and Dr. Riordan take you on an artful and science-based journey to explore your own life and relationships and share simple and easy ways to use Coaching Skills as a leader, teammate, partner and friend. I recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their life and those around them. Andrew Biga, Chief People Officer at GoHealth Urgent Care

Author Information

Shonna D. Waters, PhD, is an organizational psychologist, technologist, leadership coach, and part-time professor at Georgetown University, USA. She spent her career conducting research and consulting on people and organizational systems. She is the CEO and Principal of WatersEdge Coaching & Consulting and co-founder of Fractional Insights, an evidence-based people strategy consultancy. Shonna also authored The Practical Guide to HR Analytics. Brodie Gregory Riordan, PhD, is an industrial psychologist, executive coach, and part-time professor at Georgetown University, USA. Her career includes global leadership roles at Procter & Gamble, CEB, and McKinsey & Company. She manages Ocular, a coaching and consulting practice based in Washington, DC, and is an executive coach with The Boda Group. Brodie also authored Feedback Fundamentals and Evidence-Based Best Practices.

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