- The HeART of Laser-Focused Coaching: A Revolutionary Approach to Masterful Coaching (Personal and Professional Growth)

I highly recommend "The HeART of Laser-Focused Coaching" by Marion Franklin, and can say it has transformed my approach to coaching. This insightful book has not only helped me frame how to coach more effectively but has also encouraged me to explore the deeper meanings behind the issues my clients bring to our discussions. One of the key takeaways for me was the emphasis on cultivating a deep listening practice. Marion illustrates through examples how active listening can reveal underlying concerns and motivations, allowing for more impactful coaching conversations. Additionally, her frameworks for setting clear intentions have helped me see how to guide my clients toward actionable goals while remaining open to the unexpected insights that can typically arise during sessions. Marion Franklin’s thought leadership shines through every page. Her profound expertise and generous sharing of knowledge have been invaluable to me as I navigate the complexities of coaching. The exercises and reflective questions she includes have prompted me to consider my own coaching style and how I can better serve my clients. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to deepen their coaching skills. Thank you, Marion Franklin, for your remarkable contribution to the coaching community!

If creatures from outer space came upon this world and were handed a ‘Guide to Humans’ it would be this book. Since it would be nice for the world's population to have this kind of crucial knowledge, I implore as many people as possible to purchase this book for themselves or anyone they wish to enlighten to practical and pragmatic, yet wholly transformative information. For those professionals out there coaching clients, this book should be mandatory. An example of one of my favorite techniques in this book: The power of the short-format conversation. Most all emotions, confusion, and decision paralysis can be solved in very short order with the right listener. I’ve experienced major clarity in 30, 20, even 10 minutes with this specific body of work. Can you imagine this kind of power in your life? Acquiring this laser super power to sort through people’s irrelevant stories in order to mine life-changing golden nuggets is a skill worth more than $19.95 and the invested time spent reading this book. Apply her techniques - such as curiously questioning *why* someone is telling you a story vs the *what* of it, or, finding the profound underpinning of beliefs that show up in seemingly insignificant comments and details in conversation - to clients, to coworkers, friends, and family and watch your life simplify and find power. Author Marion Franklin spares us the 'expert, guru' talk usually associated with 'coaching’. She plows through the nonsense of prescriptive advice-giving. Her approach to tearing off clients' blinders is gentle, wrought with genuine tough love, and mastery. She suffers no fools amongst the brain synapses that keep people stuck, and isn't afraid to wield her power of insight and spot-on line of questioning to help someone breakthrough to their goals. She teaches us precisely how to do this. A pioneer not only in laser coaching, Marion Franklin is held in high esteem by insiders, pillars of this industry, and amongst founders of early coaching methodology and standards. Relevant, effective, and untainted by the ebbs and flows of this industry's trends, she espouses the original essence of 1-on-1 guided self-inquiry. She offers access to a new level of awareness and simple techniques for moving people (and ourselves!) beyond challenges and into achieving goals. She shares with us her greatest hits: tried & true, timeless, and as universal as being human. Simple and essential is the work graciously given to us by the author, a true Master. And what important work it is.

The author is a master coach with years of experience. I highly recommend this book if you want to get coaching right the first time. I also highly recommend her audiobook, the author’s tone makes the information penetrable.

I am ambivalent about this book. Overall, it is a great coaching book and one that I will re-read again to better grasp the concepts and the mindset of getting to the heart of the matter. Getting to the heart of the matter is much better than applying coaching "prescriptions": lists of questions or techniques that make coaching mechanistic and do not solve the deeper-rooted problem or block of the client. But I also had problems with the book. Some passages I had to read again and again. It can be that I was distracted but I at times I found sentences slippery, imprecise or just too general or obvious. Maybe it is because I am just not on the same wave-length with the author. To repeat again -- the intention and the ideas in the book are strong. I was impressed by a demonstration in an early chapter how Laser Coaching or Deep coaching and conventional one differ. Within minutes the former leads to discovering something new and important about the client and the latter just beats around the bush with questions like "How do you want the ideal outcome to look like?" quickly solving the wrong issue. So, my advice to you is to get a sample and see for yourself if the book if for you. I will definitely re-read it some time in the future.

Approche differenciante du coaching classique et tres juste

I recommended this book and to develop your coaching approach this will be a good fit

There's many books on Coaching out there (Coaching for Performance, The Extraordinary Coach, The Coaching Habit...) They are all great books, but this one really takes the cake! While othe othersbare more methodological, this one takes Coaching from a science to art - it goes deeper into what makes Coaching REALLY effective and calls out the mistakes that all wannabe coaches make, including how not to repeat them. This is a book I will come back to!

I like this book on laser focus coaching where focus is the key skill to achieving your goal objectives. The book is well structured and well laid out for easy reading. At the end of each chapters there is a questions bank to do for your personal journal. Overall a great read of a book and highly recommended. Best wishes Sean

It added much to my coaching. I see almost instant results. It felt like distilled learnings from Marion’s decades of coaching. A gem!