I share this page with clients at the conclusion of a coaching engagement. If we haven’t yet worked together, and you’d like to know more about me and how I approach coaching, you can start here.
CONTENTS
1. Ask Me Anything, Anytime
2. Self-Coaching
3. Key Topics and Core Practices
4. Your Coaching Team
5. For Further Reading
6. Working Together Again
1. Ask Me Anything, Anytime
Visit www.edbatista.ai to ask me anything, anytime.
(Founder and coach Tarikh Korula trained a version of ChatGPT on the more than 1,000 essays that I’ve posted to this website since 2005.)
2. Self-Coaching
It’s my hope that as a result of our work together you feel better prepared to coach yourself through any challenges you might encounter in the future. Self-coaching is a social process, not a solitary one, but it is self-directed, and my goal is for you to be able to identify and access the various forms of support you’ll need going forward.
The Art of Self-Coaching is a course that I created at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2015 and made freely available to the public in 2020, and the curriculum addresses the following topics:
- Dealing with CHANGE
- Focusing ATTENTION
- Managing EMOTION
- Increasing HAPPINESS
- Cultivating RESILIENCE & VULNERABILITY
- Coping with UNHAPPINESS
- Pursuing and living with SUCCESS
- Navigating transitions and ENDINGS
3. Key Topics and Core Practices
While every coaching engagement is unique, there are a set of topics and practices that I discuss with most clients, and here are 25 readings on these themes:
4. Your Coaching Team
While working with a professional coach is a distinct form of coaching, bear in mind that you have a number of people in your life who are on your “coaching team.” Colleagues, friends, and family members all have roles to play, and they’ll benefit from your guidance on how to be most effective at offering support.
Here’s an extensive set of resources that will be useful in this process: Coaching and Feedback Tools for Leaders. And here are some specific readings that you can share with others:
- What Do You Need Right Now? (Advice, Listening, A Hug?)
- How Great Coaches Ask, Listen and Empathize
- Inflicting Help
- Coaching, Advice and Feedback
- Hammering Screws (Bad Coaching)
- Investment vs. Attachment
- Scott Ginsberg on Asking (Better) Questions
5. For Further Reading
While the resources above will allow you to begin the self-coaching process following the conclusion of our work together, if you’d like to explore further I maintain a reading list of the books that have had an impact on my professional and personal development, which you may also find of interest:
6. Working Together Again
It’s not uncommon for me to work with former clients again at a subsequent stage in their careers, and I’m always open to a conversation about the possibility. While my approach to coaching evolves slowly over time, please note that my availability and fees may have changed since we last worked together.
It will be important for both of us to consider whether I’m still the best fit for your needs; here’s a reading on how to choose a coach that poses a number of questions for you to reflect on and to ask me directly. If it turns out that I’m no longer a good fit for any reason (including schedule and budget constraints), I can refer you to some outstanding colleagues.
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