Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry

Loved this edition and its insight on AI, MArcia is the one Coach I agree with, the energy exchange and importance of reflective listening and playback develops a bind between coach and client. Marcia explains how the brain works when we are in deep reflection.

My coaching bible with fresh insights and relevance with the times! Whether you're a coach or someone who wants to connect better and empower others, this is a must!

This book is outstanding! Her approach and insights to coaching have depth and long lasting value.

Being in a Christian coaching career this book was very helpful on boundaries. Specific questions to ask to get great response responses. It increased my dialogue with my clients.

Good Book.

Reynolds encourages us to go deep, in order to elevate our coaching skills. She has provided us the key components of crucial coaching practices that have not been explored in such depth previously—a true breakthrough for the field of coaching. Given her 25 years of coaching and developing coaches, she has made these coaching steps actionable with clarifying descriptions and true-life examples. Every segment is packed with nuggets of wisdom and insight to help build skills in reflective inquiry. With decades of both coaching and mentoring in corporate settings, I appreciate her focus that masterful coaches are as always learning and improving. She supports us to overcome some natural tendencies such as not wanting the client to be in discomfort, or adding our own meaning to what they have expressed. She encourages us to believe in our client’s own resourcefulness and potential. The coach’s role is to thoughtfully help open their perspectives in order to clear obstacles and see their own best path forward. This is a wonderful guide for taking coaching skills to the next level; I am most grateful to Reynolds for writing it.

I am giving this book to my daughter who would like to start coaching, but first I read it. If you have friends or relatives, neighbors or co-workers who discuss their aspirations or fears with you, you will be able to use the tips in this book. They are so common-sensical, but you won't learn them in everyday life.

This book has a somewhat different approach to coaching. It feels very "color outside the lines" to me. I took many notes,and enjoyed re-reading many sections. I appreciated the whole "coach the person " thought process. No need to be overwhelmed with standard questions and patterns that do not get to the root person. Highly recommended

I like to read books. So, I bought it to read. I found this book so useful and educative! Although I am not a coach, but as a practising mediator I learned a lot from this book. Very well written. Anyone wanting to be a coach must read this book.

bom livro!

Sin duda revoluciona el foco en la sesión de coaching, sugiere una indagación mas profunda y que genera cambios a futuro

Marcia Reynolds explains clearly what it is that makes coaching such a special form of conversation and such an effective problem solving skill. I find her explanations intelligent, precise, concise and extremely relevant. The best book on coaching so far for me (and I have read quite a few).

I really love Marcia Reynold’s new book. It has struck such a deep and resonant chord for my own coaching practice, especially the client-coach relationship and context of reflective inquiry over seductive killer questions; something that corresponds with essence of Motivational Interviewing, for me anyway. Many coaches and, more importantly, their clients are going to benefit from this.