The Coaching Shift

"Winner of the 2023 Firebird Book Awards for Business Book ""Shonna D. Waters & Brodie Gregory Riordan have done an extraordinary job of capturing the tools, techniques, and fundamentals needed to successfully build out impactful coaching skills. Their content is deeply pragmatic; through stories, examples, and reflection exercises Coaching Skills empowers readers to unlock one’s potential to show up as more curious, present, engaged, and supportive with others. This is a must-read book for anyone who wants to up-level their ability to manage in an organization, lead a team, engage a business partner, or navigate a relationship."" Dr. Jacinta M. Jiménez, PsyD, BCC, Author of The Burnout Fix and Vice President, Coach Innovation, BetterUp. ""The best leaders I have worked with, whether within the 75th Ranger Regiment, the world of entrepreneurship, or within McKinsey and Company, Waters and Riordan were the best coaches. These leaders have the self awareness to know that is it more fun and rewarding once we shift from needing to have all the answers, and instead focus on much more effective and scalable ways we can coach ourseves and others - this book gives you the tools you need to achieve this."" Neil Markey, Co-Founder and CEO of Beckley Retreats ""With the autonomy of hybrid work comes the opportunity and challenge to take greater command of our own paths to full potential and to process relationships differently. ‘Coaching Skills’ wisely pivots the focus from coaching up others to coaching up ourselves first. It provides a fresh approach to self-reflection and self-actualization that can unlock new levels of success and well being. And spoiler alert: By strengthening the skills to coach myself, I feel emboldened to facilitate a similar journey in others in a more authentic way. And hasn’t that always been the holy grail of coaching from the start? Brilliant move by authors, Waters and Riordan, to know better than to just teach us how to coach others."" Joe Fernandez, SVP of Global Sales at OnFrontiers ""If you’re looking to understand the why and the how through real examples and coaching tools you can put in practice for you or your team this a must read. The Coaching Shift provides the unique combination of teaching the “what” of coaching through concepts and theories AND the “how” of coaching through relatable stories and tools that help you learn more about coaching yourself, team or others from the first chapter through the last chapter. This book lays the platform for continual growth in way that you not only learn how coaching leads to growth but in a way that you can start enacting changes as soon as you complete the first chapter. Waters and Riordan uniquely explains concepts, with stories, and templates for growth to help the reader learn, and support learning of others."" Kimberly Corbitt, Senior VP, People & Culture at Phoenix Suns/Phoenix Mercury ""I thought I knew what it meant to be a great coach – then I read Coaching Skills and it changed everything. Dr. Waters and Dr. Riordan take you on an artful and science-based journey to explore your own life and relationships and share simple and easy ways to use Coaching Skills as a leader, teammate, partner and friend. I recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their life and those around them."" Andrew Biga, Chief People Officer at GoHealth Urgent Care"