“ Coach Anyone will provide you with immediate benefit within the first few pages. Jed and Germaine’s book is a combination of powerful and practical tools along with solid coaching theory. They exemplify what coaching is really about. They’re the real thing! I heartily recommend this book to anyone involved in helping others increase their effectiveness.”
    — Doug Upchurch, Insights Learning & Development, North America
Have you ever wondered how coaching differs from management or leadership? Did you know that most business people can’t articulate the difference? In this book you’ll gain a clear and powerful understanding of the differences between coaching, management and leadership so you can know when to coach, manage or lead. Most executives and managers don’t know. This book gives specific help in its information-dense text.

“ Coach Anyone provides a wide variety of practical recipes for coaches to use in ‘facilitating people in their own commitment and enthusiasm to accomplish their objectives.’ ”
        — Mary Beth Moehring, Vice President Training & Development,
                                                                       SYSCO Corporation

Included in the book is a Coaching Architecture, a one-year timeline marking the important steps, phases and junctures appropriate to most coaching scenarios. It’s at the end of the introduction along with a description of each part. It also references the book’s chapter(s) for more in-depth information.

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You’ll also find at the end of this book the Coaching Tools & Models Index, naming 32 valuable coaching tools and techniques described in the book. The Coaching Tools & Models Index is a valuable tool alone.

“Already seasoned executive coaches ourselves, we greatly enhanced our abilities with what we found inCoach Anyone About Anything. The coaching models and proven approaches are elegant and powerful. We recommend this book to anyone who wants to dramatically improve their coaching effectiveness and produce breakthrough results.”  
                      — Shideh Sedgh Bina & Michael Waldman, Senior Partners, INSIGNIAM Performance Consulting

In chapter 5 Jed and Germaine share with you a revolutionary perspective about coaching. People aren’t coachable! Did you just say, “Oh, no!" Take heart, this discovery will dramatically improve your coaching ability. With the tips in chapter 5 you’ll learn how this discovery can free you from unnecessary stress and immediately enhance your coaching effectiveness.

Learn the four key player attributes: knowledge, skill, confidence and motivation. Find out how to positively impact them and improve your players’ results in chapter 6.

Coaches should only ask questions, right? Read chapter 4, The Coaching Scope, and then see what you think. Coaches should never give advice, right? Again, see chapter 4.

Ever wonder when to talk and when to listen? Sure, you do. Coaches do, too. Coach Anyone will give you a graphic guide to help you, the coach, answer that question. See chapter 6 for the Coaching Spectrum.

"If you want to empower others to achieve extraordinary success, read Coach Anyone About Anything now!”                                                — Jerry N. Gauche, Vice President, Sales Worldwide, National Oilwell Varco

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While you’re reading the authors intend for you to develop or polish your own Coaching Philosophy. Although this will happen quite naturally for you, chapter 8 will give you some great tips to create Your Coaching Philosophy, a vital tool for any coach to have.

You’ll learn the system by which all players rate their coaches. And Germaine and Jed will share with you the phenomenon they’ve discovered that they call the “value drift.” It’s a little-recognized and usually invisible force, always working against the coach—whether veteran or novice. Find out how to see it working in your player and how to use it to your advantage in chapter 9.

Chapter 13 gives you a tool unequaled in its facility to gain access to what is immediately on your clients’ mind with regard to their dreams and objectives–the DreamMakers & DreamBrakers Audit. What things are propelling them to achieve their goals and what things are impeding them? Don’t miss chapter 13!

"Calling on readers to intentionally operate from a coaching stance, Coach Anyone outlines an approach that ensures a positive result through creating and sustaining a powerful coaching relationship.”
                                                 — Gail Hughes, Vice President, Organization Capability, Chevy Chase Bank

The telephone has been around for over a century, yet most of us don’t know some basic guidelines for how to use it most effectively, especially in coaching situations. As a result it may seem like an inappropriate coaching tool. Yet the telephone can be very effective and save countless prime-time hours to invest elsewhere. See chapter 15 to find out how you can be an effective coach by phone.

Coaching teams? Although nearly all of the coaching concepts presented here can be applied to teams, we have a special chapter with some unique tools to help you guide teams to success, chapter 14.

Need a fast way to get a handle on what your player/client’s business is all about? See chapters 11 and 12. Chapter 11 offers a list of incisive questions to gain the understanding you desire to effectively coach your business client. Chapter 12 illustrates an interactive process to enable you and your client to learn about her or his organization even more profoundly.

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For those of you who want to know how to get started in coaching as a profession or further build your clientele, see chapter 16, How to Begin and Build Your Coaching Business. You will find some marvelous networking and prospecting tools and ways to answer every prospective player/client’s three questions: Why coaching? Why you? and Why now? You’ll also discover that the coaching profession has some inherent qualities that help you grow your clientele like no other.

"Best coaching book on the market! The fundamentals for coaching in this book are the basis for training our new business coaches. They and our experienced coaches use Coach Anyone over and over again as the reference to serve their clients.”                        — C.T. “Tex” Johnston, CEO, Johnston Consulting Group

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Although the book focuses on the work environment, don’t be surprised if you experience personal breakthroughs in your role as a parent, spouse or friend, as well.

In this book you’ll find new terms or words used in ways that might be unfamiliar to you. They are defined them immediately. For instance, we call the person receiving your coaching “the player.” If you are coaching a sports team, then this certainly makes sense. And, it also makes sense when coaching a business team member or a client. He or she must participate and perform; thus he or she is a player.

          coach’- ing : facilitating people in their own commitment and  
                               enthusiasm to accomplish their objectives.