Evidence Based Coaching Handbook or Process Pipe Drafting

Evidence Based Coaching Handbook: Putting Best Practices to Work for Your Clients

Author: Anthony M Grant

The first reference to bring scientifically proven approaches to the practice of personal and executive coaching

The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook applies recent behavioral science research to executive and personal coaching, bringing multiple disciplines to bear on why and how coaching works. A groundbreaking resource for this burgeoning profession, this text presents several different coaching approaches along with the empirical and theoretical knowledge base supporting each.

Recognizing the special character of coaching-that the coaching process is non-medical, collaborative, and highly contextual-the authors lay out an evidence-based coaching model that allows practitioners to integrate their own expertise and the needs of their individual clients with the best current knowledge. This gives coaches the ability to better understand and optimize their own coaching interventions, while not having to conform to a single, rigidly defined practice standard.

The Evidence Based Coaching Handbook looks at various approaches and applies each to the same two case studies, demonstrating through this practical comparison the methods, assumptions, and concepts at work in the different approaches.

The coverage includes:

• An overview: a contextual model of coaching approaches

• Systems and complexity theory

• The behavioral perspective

• The humanistic perspective

• Cognitive coaching

• Adult development theory

• An integrative, goal-focused approach

• Psychoanalytically informed coaching

•Positive psychology

• An adult learning approach

• An adventure-based framework

• Culture and coaching

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Process Pipe Drafting

Author: Terence M Shumaker

Process Pipe Drafting is designed to provide students with the fundamental concepts and basic techniques needed to create piping drawings. This edition includes problems and questions at the end of chapters, expanded manufacturer catalog specifications, and an appendix listing related ANSI standards. Students new to the trade, as well as experienced pipefitters, welders, and others, will benefit from this well-written, highly authoritative text.

Booknews

This write-in textbook provides the basic knowledge needed to read, comprehend, and create process pipe drawings. It first introduces the components of piping systems<-->fittings, valves, and equipment<-->then shows how to put these components together to create the various types of drawings used in the process piping industry. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.