Description
How can you become the very best coach you can be?
The field of coaching is dynamic and continuously evolving. With over 50,000 certified coaches worldwide and counting, coaching research is growing rapidly. Becoming a Coach provides all the knowledge and inspiration needed to develop as a professional coach. Drawing on the latest ICF coach competence framework, the authors outline a wide range of contemporary coaching models. Additionally, up-to-date research and techniques are also integrated to deliver an evidence-based coaching service tailored to the very highest professional standards.
Ultimately, the book aims to deepen readers’ understanding of core competences and broaden creative thinking in practical settings. Becoming a Coach is the only book to align directly with the world’s most widely accepted professional coaching guidance.
This Third Edition contains six comprehensive sections. To start, the first half begins by defining coaching and helping you better understand both yourself and your clients. Next, it addresses how to effectively deliver core coaching competences using diverse approaches. Moving forward, the second half explores an array of modern coaching practices. These include ‘between session’ activities, metaphors and imagery to maximise impact and making use of new technologies and AI. Finally, it offers tools and techniques to develop and elevate your overall practice. This edition has been updated to ensure it best reflects current practice, and includes a number of new chapters.
This essential guide acts as a core textbook for all ICF-accredited training, as well as broader coaching programmes. As the ICF outlines, coaches should partner with clients in a creative, thought-provoking way. As a result, clients should feel inspired to fully maximise their personal and professional potential. Therefore, this serves as the perfect resource for students, new coaches, and seasoned practitioners alike.
Jonathan Passmore is also the author of Succeeding as a Coach, by Pavilion Publishing.
Author
Jonathan Passmore is a Professor of Coaching and Behaviour Change at Henley Business School and a globally recognised, award-winning thought leader in organisation and people development. He is one of the world’s most published coaching researchers, with 45 books and many chapters, journal papers and articles. In 2025 he was named a Thinkers50 Coaching Legend in recognition of his profound and lasting contribution to the coaching field.
Tracy Sinclair is a Master Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation (ICF), and a specialist in the field of coaching. She co-founded and leads Coach Advancement, where she provides training programmes and services for professional coaches and organisations building coaching culture. In recognition of her efforts, she was a winner of the ICF Coaching Impact Award for Distinguished Coach in 2023 and one of the Leading Global Coaches winners of the Thinkers50 Marshall Goldsmith Coaching Awards of 2019 and 2021. She is also a member of the Marshall Goldsmith 100Coaches. In addition, Tracy was an ICF Board member for nine years, including serving as ICF Global Chair in 2018.
Audience
The book is aimed at students on postgraduate coaching courses, especially those accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF). It should also find a much broader readership of practitioners and trainees interested in a comprehensive introduction to the diverse array of contemporary coaching tools and models.
Contents
SECTION 1: SETTING THE SCENE
1. The journey towards maturity
2. What is coaching?
3. Who am I?
4. Who are my clients?
SECTION 2: DEVELOPING CORE COACHING COMPETENCES
5. Introducing the ICF Core Competency Model
6. Demonstrates Ethical Practice
7. Embodies a Coaching Mindset
8. Establishes and Maintains Agreements
9. Cultivates Trust and Safety
10. Maintains Presence
11. Listens Actively
12. Evokes Awareness
13. Facilitates Client Growth
SECTION 3: APPROACHES TO COACHING
14. Universal Eclectic Coaching Approach
15. Behavioural Approach and the GROW model
16. Humanistic approach and the Time to Think model
17. Cognitive-Behavioural approach and ABCDEF model
18. Gestalt approach and Chairwork
19. Solution-Focused approach and the OSKAR model
20. Systemic approach and Force Field model
21. Psychodynamic Coaching and Transference
22. Integration
SECTION 4: COACHING PRACTICE
23. Ethical practice
24. Contracting with clients
25. Taking and managing coaching notes
26. Maintaining presence through mindfulness
27. Intersessional activities
28. Metaphors and imagery
29. Using new technologies and AI
SECTION 5: DEVELOPING YOUR PRACTICE
30. Personal development plans
31. CPD
32. Supervision
33. Reflective Practice
34. Mentor coaching
35. Coaching knowledge assessment
36. Progressing your coaching skills
SECTION 6: TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES
37. Coaching tools
38. Resources
39. Appendices
Details
Publisher: Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
ISBN: 9781803885094
Publication Date: 11th September 2026
Pages: 412
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