The Coach’’s Casebook: Mastering The Twelve Traits That Trap Us

＂Reading this book is like being a coach, a client, a supervisor, a student of coaching, and in relationship with all of those people all at once! It also achieves that remarkable thing, and rare, of being both friendly and rigorous, gentle and challenging, calm and pacey. Its ingenious structure provides an instantly digestible feast of learning. It is a triumph! But who would expect anything less from these two extraordinary, pioneering, brilliant coaches?＂

Our strengths can become our weaknesses. Our traits and habitual behaviours can become traps. In each chapter of The Coach’s Casebook the reader follows a skilled coach working with a client who is struggling with one of the twelve traits which every coach will face in their coaching work - traits such as people pleasing, perfectionism, impostor syndrome, performance anxiety and procrastination.

In each of the case studies in The Coach’s Casebook, the coach shares their emotions, their thought processes and their reflections from coaching supervision as they try to understand the psychological origins of these behaviours and to work out how to help their client.

This book is a great book for leadership development and has been used extensively for executive leadership for results but is above all designed to help you improve your coaching practice. It gives you practical, tried and tested techniques which you can use today to improve your coaching habits and coaching practice to help your clients to change the habits of a lifetime.

Both Kim and Geoff are thought leaders in business coaching and mentoring as well as coaching supervision and use this book to explain the key coaching principles in their coaching practice to help you develop great coaching habits.

Kim is the owner and Director of Barefoot Coaching Ltd. She is one of the leading coaches in the UK, with expertise in psychotherapy, executive coaching team coaching and team dynamics.. Kim was awarded Coaching Person of the Year 2012 and is a visiting research fellow on coaching at the University of Chester. Geoff is an experienced leadership and performance coach, a renowned expert in the fields of agile development and Scrum, and is a regular keynote speaker about coaching, collaboration and change. He is the author of the popular leadership book Scrum Mastery: From Good to Great Servant-Leadership, and is a member of the International Coach Federation, the National Council of Psychotherapists and the Association of Business Psychology.