John Whitmore Coaching For Performance 4th Edition Rating: 7,1/10 7124 votes

In 2007 Sir John received the International Coach Federation's President's Award for advancing the profession of coaching. Whitmore wrote a book titled Coaching for Performance. Published by Nicholas Brealey Publishing. It contains details of his coaching model, known as the GROW model. The first four editions sold a million. Coaching for Performance, Fourth Edition John Whitmore Nicholas Brealey Publishing ISBN: 978-1-85788-535-4 This book is mainly talking about coaching, its definition and principles and a big focus on the relation between coaching and leadership, stressing out, with case studies and proofs from the.


Over 500,000 copies sold. This major new edition is totally revised and updated with new material on coaching in a crisis and leadership for a difficult future. Coaching for Performance is the bible of the industry and very much the definitive work that all coaches stand on. This new edition explains clearly and in-depth how to unlock people s potential to maximise their performance Contains the eponymous GROW model (Goals, Reality, Options, Will), now established as the basis for coaching professionals. Clear, concise, hands-on and reader-friendly, this is a coaching guide written in a coaching style. It digs deep into the roots of coaching, particularly transpersonal psychology, a useful model for personal development and in-depth coaching. There are new coaching questions and fresh chapters on emotional intelligence and high-performance leadership. Whitmore also considers the future of coaching and its role in the transformation of learning and workplace relationships, as well as illustrating how coaching can help in a crisis.

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Coaching is a way of managing, a way of treating people, a way of thinking, a way of being. Coaching has matured into an invaluable profession fit for our times and this fourth edition of the most widely read coaching book takes it to the next frontier.
Good coaching is a skill that requires a depth of understanding and plenty of practice if it is to deliver its astonishing...more
Published May 25th 2002 by Nicholas Brealey Publishing (first published April 9th 2002)
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Aug 18, 2015Barry rated it liked it
Shelves: self-help, business-analysis, leadership

Coaching For Performance Whitmore

This was a book described as 'the definitive book on coaching' during a Coaching course I recently attended. I have to say I have been left a little disappointed with it.
I work hard at Coaching and although I am not a natural coach it is something I am developing. I would suggest this book is good for providing a high level of what coaching is but it really isn't a toolkit for relative novices to add to their knowledge and approach.
There is one huge positive in the book and that is Whitmore's G...more
Dec 25, 2017Diana Buliga rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Good reference for wanna be coaches, as well as being a tool for self-understanding.

Coaching for performance is one of the best books on the topic. It had reached already it’s 25 edition and counting millions of copies sold. If you want to become a better person, a better manager, a better team member, this book is a must for you.
Here are some aspects that you will learn:
- Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
- The ideal coach is “patient, detached, supportive, interested, [a] good...more
Oct 09, 2015Ricardo Cavalcanti rated it really liked it
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It's a great book about coaching. Introduces the key fundamentals about coaching as well as a structured framework to apply as a coach.
Feb 12, 2018Abdurrahman AlQahtani rated it really liked it · review of another edition
A great book that is at the foundation of coaching practice. John talks from experience and offers wisdom and practical questions that can help in coaching engagements. He explained GROW model with good examples, and offered an open buffet of questions that can help a coach to enrich coaching discussions. I especially liked the ones under “discovering meaning and purpose”. I actually used them in one of my coaching sessions, and they yielded great results.
On the other hand, I have a problem with...more
Feb 21, 2012Ray Campbell rated it liked it
At the USRowing Convention this past December, a coach from the Saratoga Rowing Club mentioned this book as one of two he had read when starting his journey as a coach. The work was not intended as a manual for coaching sports, but rather coaching lifestyle, leadership, education or other endeavor. In other words, it is for someone interested in building a team and coaching members to work together effectively or to maximize potential in an individual in any context.
I found it an interesting an...more
Jul 19, 2019Ian . rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Great methodical book. Concentrates mostly on GROW model, quite a lot practical tips, also discusses some bigger philosophical questions - basically about the role of leaders in current world and how they can change the behaviour of many. Also good chapters about ethics etc.
Didn't have any 'ah ha' moments or find anything earth shattering to take away from this book.
Aug 23, 2018Frank Calberg rated it really liked it
Passages I found particularly useful:
What are examples of coaching questions to create awareness and responsibility?
- Pages 46 - 47: Open questions can start with words like what, when, who, how much and how many. These questions are helpful to get facts and effective for creating awareness and responsibility.
- Page 51: What else?
- Page 51: If you knew the answer, what would it be?
- Page 52: What would the consequences be for you or for others?
- Page 52: What criteria are you using?
- Page 52: Wh...more
Jan 31, 2018Mihai Rosca rated it really liked it
First thing's first and this was my very first book about the subject at hand, which is coaching. I have been curious for quite a while about what coaching actually is, how it behaves in its entirety and what the benefits are. I'm afraid most of the descriptions that you will find at a superficial glance on the internet don't shed much light on that.
I just put down the book a few minutes ago and I must say I liked it a lot. First of all, it's not a book about coaching in companies. No. Even thou...more
* don't tell your view, rather ask questions that highlight the difference between the two thought patterns
* trust the other to come with *some* solution, the coach's job is to ask relevant questions
** in a way it's like a pedometer that tells your number of daily steps, without telling you what to do with it: you have to personalize it
* the job of the coach is to monitor and give objective feedback: people will naturally optimize on the provided metrics
* similar to therapy
* pull, not push based...more
Jul 28, 2019Rebsta rated it really liked it · review of another edition
After a few months of reading this in a book circle, it is finally done.
As an introduction to coaching, I'd say this is a great book. It starts out with selling coaching as a concept, which is something all these books seem to do, and then becomes very concrete and hands-on about the GROW model. This part of the book was a great learning experience and something I will definitely come back to over the years.
However, the last part is basically just business talk. ROI, coaching planning and pric...more
Apr 23, 2017Koen Wellens rated it really liked it
I found this book very useful! Not every chapter was as useful as the ones about the GROW technique, but still worth the read. I even took pictures from this book. I've never done that before!
For me this book is worth 4 stars. Not really a book that I want to talk about with everyone, but I am glad that I read it. And if you're into coaching, you really got to read this book!
Read the full review at my blog.
Aug 08, 2017Andrew rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Working for a professional organization where there is a focus on performance, and where I am expected to manage and coach a small team, this book provided practical tips and examples.
It also emphasized the difference between coaching people and instructing them. It is all too easy to fall into the trap of telling people what to do, rather than helping them work out what needs to be done themselves!
This is the first book I have read on coaching but would like to apply some of the ideas outlined...more

John Whitmore Coaching For Performance

Jul 15, 2017Julie Capell rated it it was ok
Shelves: type_non-fiction, audio, author_male, already-own, pub_post-1945, self-help
Maybe it's just not the right time for me to be reading this. It came highly recommended but I didn't realize it would be so focused on coaching in the business world. I quit listening to this about one hour in because it doesn't seem to be about life coaching in the way I understand that term. Maybe I will pick it up again later but for now I am moving on.
[I listened to this as an audio book read by Erik Synnestvedt. Really slow reader but when I increased the speed a bit, the narration was sti...more
Jul 28, 2019Cori rated it liked it
Shelves: business, psychology, leadership, how-to, non-fiction
What intrigued me: Fiona lent me this book, as I am trying to expand my coaching relationships at work.
What I liked: Practical and straight forward. I have already tried out some of the techniques listed in the book.
What I didn't like: The closing chapter on Transpersonal Coaching seemed a little out there.
Favorite quote: “Information is not the same as prescription.”
As someone trying to move from a 'tell' to an 'ask' style of management, and being very much at the start of my journey, i found this book to be a great springboard from which to start.
I'm sure there are plenty more substantial and conflicting approaches out there that i have yet to read and experience, that being said i enjoyed the read and have started to put my learnings to good use...i think.
Read this for my Coaching Accreditation requirements. Alot of good big picture points but that's the flaw in my mind. I wanted to learn more about the GROW (Goal, Reality, Options, Will/Way Forward) coaching model and the key questions to ask in each stage. Although he does list out some questions it doesn't give context as to why the questions are important and help with the flow and outcome.

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Jan 22, 2018Ben Lobaugh rated it liked it · review of another edition
Great coaching base to learn coaching as a management style
Modern coaching methods stem from this book. The coaching methods described in here are still very applicable. The authors emphasis on coaching as a management technique was spot on. Would be 5 stars but there was lots of unnecessary political posturing that distracted from the coaching content.
The GROW model is really good and if the book actually focused more on that it would be 5 stars. Instead the author spends the last half of the book on a rant about why coaching is important, the environment and therapy rather than how to do coaching.
I'm going to be looking for another book on the GROW model because those chapters were insanely useful.
Oct 01, 2018Jules rated it liked it · review of another edition
Shelves: 2018, self-help, non-fiction, entrepreneurship
Not bad, read this initially to learn more about the GROW model which was useful and practical. The other parts of the book were not bad, but I wouldn't say that this is THE book you'd want to read to learn more about how to become an effective executive coach. It's useful though, for understanding why you'd want to use coaching techniques as a leader in your organisation.
Jun 30, 2018Dai Reading rated it really liked it
A very well written and constructed work on Coaching. Whilst it is written with big corporations/organisations in mind, I gained a great deal of useful information/knowledge/technique etc from this book for myself on a personal and much lower level. Highly recommend it for anyone who aspires to get the best out of themselves and others on a number of levels.
Mar 15, 2019N.Govindarajan rated it it was amazing · review of another edition
Excellent conceptualisation of how to make a team deliver the best results .
A very smooth approach to make the entire team involved and enjoy their actions and deliver desired results.
Enjoy it.
Oct 18, 2018David rated it really liked it · review of another edition
Excellent as a resource for coaches despite being a bit preachy. A quick read despite poor editing (either there are new grammar rules I'm not aware of or this edition was rushed at the expense of proper editing).
GROW model is a fantastic approach, easy to use for both professional and personal life.
Important skills to master for leaders looking to improve.
Aug 27, 2019Caitlin rated it really liked it
Thorough and highly practical.
John provide step by step coaching to improve performance. The concept can learn and take straight away to practice in real work place.
Jun 11, 2019Jordan Kirkwood rated it it was amazing
Really useful and insightful, lots of practical takeaways everyone can find use for in their work and personal lives, defo recommend!
Would not recommend.
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