Careers Library
Supporting Others' Careers - Coaching
This section includes books which will mostly be useful to trainers and doctors supporting others’ careers. In includes many books on theories of coaching, as well as other subjects which will be of use in developing trainees and colleagues.
Career Coaching: an Insider's Guide - Study Guide for Internal Career Coaches
Authors: BENCH Marcia
Publisher: High Flight Press 2004
ISBN: 0-9745647-2-9
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB008/BEN
This book offers a comprehensive blend of career discovery tools, easy-to-use models, coaching principles, client tips, job search strategies and numerous worksheets and assessments. It presents multidimensional coaching methods that provide solutions to your clients needs.
Coaching and Mentoring in Higher Education - A learning-centred approach
Authors: CARNELL Eileen, MACDONALD Jacqui, ASKEW Susan
Publisher: IOE - Institute of Education University of London 2006
ISBN: 0 85473 752 9
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB049/CAR
This book provides a solid grounding the key principles and practice of coaching and how this connects with current thinking in the Health and Social Care sectors. Covering issues such as: motivation, personal development, standards, and ethics of coaches based on current practices in the field.
[…] It is ideal for practicing and aspiring healthcare mentors and coaches, managers and leaders involved in staff development, and HR practitioners, trainers and educators. It will also be of interest to practitioners with a general interest in facilitating personal development. […]
The One to One Tool kit - Tips and strategies for advisors, coaches and mentors
Authors: COOPER Julie, REYNOLDS, Ann
Publisher: Career train 2008
ISBN: 978-0-9559-680
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB298/COO
This book is aimed at those involved in one to one work, providing powerful and easily remembered tools to maximise skills, explains practical models and gives strategies for dealing with difficulties.
Effective Coaching - Lessons from the coach's coach
Authors: DOWNEY Myles
Publisher: Thompson 2003
ISBN: 978 1 58799 172 1
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB109/DOW
This book is about achieving actual results (rather than academic theory) for individuals, teams, and organisations. Downey provides all the tools you need to be effective as a coach.
Type and Career Development - Facilitating Personal and Professional Development
Authors: DUNNING Donna
Publisher: CPP inc. 2005
ISBN: N/A – available from www.cpp.com
Library Reference Number: SOC/B121/DUN
The purpose of this booklet is to increase the professional’s ability to apply personality type theory when helping others manage and capitalize on career and life choices. It covers topics such as: conducting self assessment, generating and researching options, customizing career development for the client and fostering practitioners’ type development.
Coaching and Mentoring in Health and Social Care - the essentials of practice for professionals and organisations
Authors: FOSTER-TURNER Julia
Publisher: Radcliffe 2006
ISBN: 1-85775-549-9
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB001/FOS
This book provides a solid grounding the key principles and practice of coaching and how this connects with current thinking in the Health and Social Care sectors. Covering issues such as: motivation, personal development, standards, and ethics of coaches based on current practices in the field.
Coaching & Mentoring – theory & practice
Authors: GARVEY Robert, STOKES Paul, MEGGINSON David
Publisher: Sage 2009
ISBN: 978 1 4129 1216 7
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB545/GAR
[this book] is the first authoritative text with a comprehensive overview and critical grounding in the key concepts, models and research studies in coaching and mentoring. [It] provides a detailed, critical and contemporary understanding of this burgeoning field. [the book addresses:] what is the meaning of coaching and mentoring in contemporary society? What does it involve and what are the challenges? How can its true value be developed and sustained? Key features include: a range of examples from the public and private sectors, chapter overviews and summaries, case studies drawn from real life businesses, the first comprehensive theoretical framework for coaching and mentoring, “future directions” sections”, challenging study questions and helpful tips, a chapter on the state of the art in the US. This book is written for people on CIPD courses and postgraduate students taking a mentoring and coaching programme across business, education, health and social work.
Coaching & Mentoring – theory & practice
Authors: GARVEY Robert, STOKES Paul, MEGGINSON David
Publisher: Sage 2009
ISBN: 978 1 4129 1216 7
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB545/GAR
[this book] is the first authoritative text with a comprehensive overview and critical grounding in the key concepts, models and research studies in coaching and mentoring. [It] provides a detailed, critical and contemporary understanding of this burgeoning field. [the book addresses:] what is the meaning of coaching and mentoring in contemporary society? What does it involve and what are the challenges? How can its true value be developed and sustained? Key features include: a range of examples from the public and private sectors, chapter overviews and summaries, case studies drawn from real life businesses, the first comprehensive theoretical framework for coaching and mentoring, “future directions” sections”, challenging study questions and helpful tips, a chapter on the state of the art in the US. This book is written for people on CIPD courses and postgraduate students taking a mentoring and coaching programme across business, education, health and social work.
Mentoring for Doctors and Dentists
Authors: GUPTA Romesh C, LINGAM Sundaram
Publisher: Blackwell Science 2000
ISBN: 0-632-05676-2
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB500/GUP
“This booklet gives a clear explanation of mentoring in action. It provides a system whereby an individual, who is usually more senior or experienced, can guide and support somebody more junior in their professional development… Developing good mentoring practice for doctors is welcome and is now becoming an accepted part of good professional practice.”
Effective Coaching in Healthcare
Authors: HADIKIN Ruth
Publisher: Books for Midwives / Elsevier Science
ISBN: 0 7506 5498 8
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB045/HAD
The first book on coaching, specifically for the healthcare sector, includes and A-Z of coaching skills linking their application to healthcare practice. Also covers: the in depth psychological theory behind current coaching practice, supplies tools to develop leadership skills, and outlines how the coach’s role is set to grow in healthcare.
Type and Retention - Retaining Talent, Leveraging type
Authors: HAMMER Allen L
Publisher: CPP inc. 2003
ISBN: N/A – available from www.cpp.com
Library Reference Number: SOC/B120/HAM
The purpose of this booklet is to help you increase retention of talented employees by individualizing your retention efforts through the use of psychological type. Incorporating MBTI type can improve organizational issues such as career choice, leadership, team building, coaching, and management development.
Strong and MBTI - Career Development Guide – revised
Authors: HAMMER Allen L, KUMMEROW Jean K.
Publisher: CPP Inc. 2001
ISBN: 0 89106 095 2
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB074/HAM
A guide intended for those with a professional interest in helping people choose their careers, explore their career options, or plan their career development. It includes: description and uses of ‘Strong’ and MBTI, verifying and interpreting results, counselling implications, and counselling strategies based on the ‘Strong’ and the MTBI.
The Art of Building Windmills
Authors: HAWKINS Peter
Publisher: Windmills / GIEU 2005
ISBN: 0-9535980-0-4
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB016/HAW
This book will show you how to take charge of your career – and manage it on your own terms. You’ll discover how to: identify and develop your skills, become an expert at self-promotion, spot and seize vital opportunities, understand what employers want – and supply it, and work towards the ideal job.
No regrets on Sunday – Seven days can change your life
Authors: HAWKINS Peter
Publisher: Windmills 2010
ISBN: nil
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB539/HAW
There are only two things we all have in common: we are all born and we will all die. The time in between is our life – and we only get one shot at it. Each of us is at a different stage in our life. Maybe employed, unemployed, stuck in a rut or facing major change. We may be married with family commitments or free and single. We all have different styles of living. We may care about big houses or big issues. For some making money matters most – for others it could be making a difference that counts. Finally, we all take a different approach to living out our lives, we may be proactive or reactive, positive or pessimistic. But whatever your situation or strategy in life, this book is for you. It will help you to help yourself. All you have to do is commit one single hour a day for the next week. Can you afford not to? You’ll have no regrets.
NLP and Coaching for Healthcare Professionals - Developing expert practice
Authors: HENWOOD Suzanne, LISTER Jim
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd 2007
ISBN: 0 470 006573 7
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB100/HEN
This book will assist healthcare professionals to get to know themselves in new ways and to impact on their practice. It offers ways to improve the following: inter-personal conflict, lack of personal goals, inability to recognise or deal with stress effectively, and lack of self-confidence
My Medical Career – a career coaching workbook for doctors
Author: HOPKINS Caroline
Publisher: North Western Deanery 2009
ISBN: nil
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB544/HOP
Commissioned by the North Western Deanery in 2009, this workbook has been designed as a creative “notebook” to help you to coach yourself in planning and managing your medical career journey. As with any effective coaching, the aims of the workbook are to support you in gaining clarity and insight into your current situation, creating a vision of your future which inspires you to take action, and identifying what specific action you will take to start build this vision. This workbook can support you at whatever stage of career planning you may be.
The workbook has also been adapted and added to for online use by the Careers team and will be available from 2011 on the NW Deanery’s virtual learning centre
Understanding Career Counselling - Theory, research and practice
Authors: KIDD Jennifer M
Publisher: SAGE 2006
ISBN: 978-1-4129-0339-4
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB013/KID
An ideal text for students of career guidance counselling and coaching. This book brings together theory research and practice in one concise volume, covering the theories of career development and career counselling, and described skills, tools and techniques to improve understanding and practice in this field.
Type and Culture - Using the MBTI Instrument in International Applications
Authors: KIRBY Linda K, KENDALL Elizabeth, BARGER Nancy J
Publisher: CPP inc. 2007
ISBN: N/A – available from www.cpp.com
Library Reference Number: SOC/BG119/KIR
A guide for MBTI practitioners who are using or want to use the instrument and psychological type in cultures other than their own or with multinational groups. Includes such topics as: models of cultural differences, cultural values and effects on individuals and practical adaptations for training internationally.
How coaching works - The essential guide to the history and practice of effective coaching Authors: O'CONNOR Joseph, LAGES Andrea
Publisher: A & C Black 2007
ISBN: 9 780 7136 8261 8
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB113/OCO
A book that covers all the main coaching methodologies and how to put them into practice. It covers topics such as: the future of coaching, measuring the results of coaching, coaching developing into its present position, and most importantly “how coaching works”.
Coaching Skills - a handbook
Authors: ROGERS Jenny
Publisher: Open University Press 2004
ISBN: 0-335-21330-8
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB025/ROG
This handbook helps readers to acquire the skills that are essential for becoming an outstanding coach. The book addresses issues such as: creating the trust that encourages a client to learn, keeping your own agenda out of the way, managing your own anxiety, especially if inexperienced.
Career Theory and Practice - Learning through case studies
Authors: SWANSON Jane, FOUAD Nadya
Publisher: SAGE Publications 1999
ISBN: 0 7619 1143 X
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB114/SWA
This book provides hands-on, practical examples of how to apply career development theories to career counselling clients. As a bridge between theory and practice this book contains: case studies, development theories, social cognitive career theory, feminist approaches and culturally appropriate career counselling as well as a comparison of theories.
Measuring results of MBTI type training - ROI in action
Authors: WAGNER Richard J, WEIGAND Robert J
Publisher: CPP 2005
ISBN: N/A – available www.cpp.com
Library Reference Number: SOC/B118/WAG
This booklet tries to “measure” the impact of any human resource development intervention, especially the use of the MBTI assessment in organizations. It offers some application exercises that will help individuals and teams understand the real value of knowing the return on investment of their MBTI training.
Coaching for Performance - GROWing People, Performance and Purpose
Authors: WHITMORE John
Publisher: NB - Nicholas Brealey Publishing 2007
ISBN: 1 85788 303 9
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB047/WHI
A hands on and user friendly coaching guide written in a coaching style. This book argues for: using effective questions to raise awareness, following the GROW sequence (Goals, Reality, Options, Will), the growing need the relate to the individuals sense of meaning and purpose.
Co-Active Coaching - New skills for coaching people toward success in work and life
Authors: WHITWORTH Laura, KIMSEY-HOUSE Karen, KIMSEY-HOUSE Henry, SANDAHL Phillip
Publisher: Davies-Black 2007
ISBN: 978-0-89106-198-4
Library Reference Number: SOC/PB028/WHI
A book helping you discover the techniques and tools for becoming a successful coach. Includes: sample coaching conversations, coach’s toolkit (offering exercises, questionnaires, checklists, and reproducible forms), and a CD containing real life audio coaching sessions.