Lessons on coaching
This book was a welcome to my collection on mentoring and coaching. Its a great book if you are want to get invovled in professional coaching and need examples of whats involved from you as a person. In short, this book is informative and educational.

This is a book for ANYONE!
As a certified life coach, I love this book. It is a must for any experienced or new coach. In addition, this book can help anyone that wants to enhance their personal growth and improve their relationships. It truly is a book for anyone and everyone! It teaches you skills that will improve your personal life, at work, as a parent, and a friend. I have an extensive library of coaching books and this is my favorite by far.

I am also using it as a foundation for a professional workshop that I am writing and teaching.

I highly recommend this book for anyone.

Excellent, thorough, sensitive
I found this book deeply satisfying as a way to deepen my coaching skills. It's about the philosophy behind coaching, and has great dialogues with clients, from which I learned a lot. Warm, engaging, and based in the literature, this book is sensitive to what coaches can do to really benefit their clients.

A Wonderful Compendium
Patrick Williams and Diane Menendez have offered the entire field of coaching a wonderful gift through their contribution to coaching in Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute of Life Coach Training. The material contained in this text offers a spectacular array of many of the coaching thought leaders and luminaries in the field, from Frederic Hudson, Ken Wilber, Milton Erickson, Daniel Goleman, Abraham Maslow and many others. One of the key benefits of this book is having these resources compiled in one place with an extensive bibliography pointing the reader to the source material to pursue inquiries in more detail.

A risk of compilations can sometimes be that they are fragmented and oversimplified, but this book avoids those perils by being coherent and well organized, flowing in a logical and useful manner from beginning to end.

A useful and compelling addition to any coach's library to keep readily available.

Bill Lindberg, MCC
President, The Ash Grove Group
Santa Barbara, California

Truly Informative!
This book really lays a good foundation for developing different streams in your life-coaching practice. I was really seeking a book to help round out some of the areas I was weak in and this book did not disappoint. Highly suggested reading for anyone seeking to build a flourishing business in life-coaching!