Masterful Coaching:
Extraordinary Results by Impacting People and the Way They Think and Work Together
By Robert Hargrove

Written as an interactive dialogue with the reader, Masterful Coaching emphasizes core coaching skills: sponsoring, counseling, acknowledging, teaching and confronting. It provides examples of coaching for breakthrough results from leading companies.

Pfeiffer & Co. October 1995. 320 pages.

Take Time For Your Life:
A Personal Coach's Seven-Step Program for Creating the Life You Want
By Cheryl Richardson

Imagine finding time to do all the things you want to do. Having plenty of energy for family and friends. Having control over your income and finances. Taking care of your physical and emotional well-being. Cheryl Richardson—a leader in the new field of personal coaching—describes her seven-step program for accomplishing all of this. Packed with useful exercises, checklists, concrete advice, client success stories, personal anecdotes, and a wealth of resources, Take Time for Your Life shows you how to identify and eliminate the things in life that are draining you and replace them with the things that inspire you.

Broadway Books. December 1998. 272 pages.

Take Yourself to the Top:
The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach
By Laura Berman Fortgang

Laura Berman Fortgang has worked with corporate clients such as Johnson & Johnson, Saatchi & Saatchi, and Prudential Securities. Here she's distilled her knowledge into book form. She emphasizes the importance of identifying the hurdles that are holding you back and then doing something about them. She also discusses drafting a five-year plan. If you're ready to invest the time it takes to improve professionally, Take Yourself to the Top could be the answer. The book includes targeted information for everyone: salespeople, workers on the verge of burnout, wishful entrepreneurs, and those just struggling to make ends meet.

Warner Books. June 1998. 218 pages.