Co-Active Coaching vs The Coaching Habit

A practical introduction to the Co-Active model: the client is whole and resourceful, the agenda is theirs, and the coach's job is listening, powerful questions and holding them to what they chose.

A deliberately brief book arguing that most coaches talk too much and advise too early. It gives seven questions — starting with "What's on your mind?" and ending with "What was most useful for you?" — and tells you to stay quiet after asking them.

Life, career and executive coaches who want a coherent model to practise, rather than a toolbox of techniques.

Anyone whose sessions have drifted into monologue. It is a two-hour read that changes next week's calls, which is a better return than most courses.

It reads like a training manual, because it is one. Work through the exercises with a practice client; reading alone changes little.

It is about conversation, not programming. Nothing in it helps you write a training block — and applied mechanically, the seven questions sound like a script.