EVIDENCE-BASED COACHING

Last week I received a brand new book by a Meta-Coach, NLP Coaching: An Evidence-based approach for coaches, leaders, and individuals (2010) by Susie Linder-Pelz, Ph.D. Now this is a book that you will want to quote and refer to when people ask you about coaching research and about the foundations of Meta-Coaching. You may even want to get a supply of the book so that you can give it to CEOs and companies who want evidence of the validity of Coaching and Meta- Coaching.

The book begins with a description of NLP coaching, the skills of a coaching, and industry standards. The second part of the book is “An Evidence-Based Approach to NLP Coaching.” Here Dr. Linder-Pelz explores best practices, theories, principles, the psychology of coaching, etc. Chapter 8 ties “Coaching” as a profession to various other psychologies to describe “coaching psychology.” It is a good chapter for knowing some of the theoretical frameworks— frameworks that we assume in Coaching and have integrated into the system.