Claire Pedrick MCC

Ever come away from a coaching session feeling it didn’t quite hit the mark, despite your skills and knowledge?

It’s not just the words we use, it’s the music, the lyrics and the dance of the conversation that make a difference to the quality of the outcome, and getting these right demands not just skill but humanity.

Explore the human qualities that great coaches need to develop - humility, vulnerability, courage, and more - based on research from thousands of real coaching… Show more

Ever come away from a coaching session feeling it didn’t quite hit the mark, despite your skills and knowledge?

It’s not just the words we use, it’s the music, the lyrics and the dance of the conversation that make a difference to the quality of the outcome, and getting these right demands not just skill but humanity.

Explore the human qualities that great coaches need to develop - humility, vulnerability, courage, and more - based on research from thousands of real coaching sessions, with stories, reflections, practical examples and tips on how to develop yourself and your work.

This is a book for anyone who wants to deepen their work without adding more tools and techniques, and who is willing to do some deeper work in service of having more transformational conversations.

Claire Pedrick and Lucia Baldelli are Master Certified Coaches with thousands of coaching hours. Running coach training companies with global reach, they speak at events across the world. Lucia brings extensive experience from Organisational Coaching and is a Coaching Certification Reviewer in the Agile world. Claire is the author of Simplifying Coaching and holds the Outstanding Contribution to Coaching Award 2022 from Henley Management College. Show less

The readers say it best:
"Probably the best book focused on coaching skills
There are SO many books on coaching skills out there, that after about the 3rd or 4th one you’re fed up and promise yourself to never buy another book with “coaching” in the title.

I must’ve forgotten that I made myself this promise when I bought Claire’s book. But boy, am I glad I did!

Simplifying Coaching is, hands-down, my favourite book about coaching.

It’s a bit like The Little Prince… Show more

The readers say it best:
"Probably the best book focused on coaching skills
There are SO many books on coaching skills out there, that after about the 3rd or 4th one you’re fed up and promise yourself to never buy another book with “coaching” in the title.

I must’ve forgotten that I made myself this promise when I bought Claire’s book. But boy, am I glad I did!

Simplifying Coaching is, hands-down, my favourite book about coaching.

It’s a bit like The Little Prince. The kind of book you can pick up at any point in your journey, and you will ALWAYS have something new to learn.

When you first receive it you might think “ah, a very short book”. Don’t be fooled. It packs a punch and lives true to the value of “simplifying”.

Essentially, if your coaching has gaps, this book is bound to help you address them. However, if your coaching is great and in fact becoming a little bit too complicated or too reliant on the next coaching tool, Simplifying Coaching will show you how to get back to the basics and remove what’s unnecessary.

The real coaching happens not when we use the best tools or fanciest exercises… but in the meeting between two souls. Claire helps us set up the space so this sacred meeting becomes possible." Show less

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