Ro Gorell specializes in performance improvement and talent development, working with a broad range of clients looking to leverage talent and effect change. Her business, Ascent2Change Ltd, helps organizations understand the life cycle of change and how it impacts business performance. She is also the co-author of 50 Top Tools for Coaching (Kogan Page).

The only book covering online and remote coaching

Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: taking the group coaching journey

Part One The context of group coaching

01 Why it's important to start with selfDiscovering the reasons you're interested in group coaching
Finding your place on your journey
Understanding the scripts you might be running
Assumptions, beliefs and confidence
The egoless coach
Key points

02 Benefits of group coachingDefined benefits
The virtuous or vicious triangle
Benefits elicitation exercise
The benefits and gains for each party
Key points

03 Certainty drives actionGetting clear on definitions
How coaching has been defined
Team and group coaching
Facilitation and group coaching
Boundary management
Coaching isn't therapy - although it can be therapeutic
Knowing what you want and where you're going
Key points

Part Two Creating a group coaching strategy

04 Group coaching processHow to create a coaching process
The process map is not the territory
The process is not a straightjacket
The contracting process
Co-creating the group coaching process
Key points

05 Group coaching blueprintHere's one we prepared earlier
GROW as a process
Group coaching as growth
Developing your own blueprint
Keeping a beginner's mind
Key points

06 Group dynamics and the group directiveThe origin of group dynamics: the term not the reality!
Social psychology in groups
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Key points

Part Three Tools and processes

07 Contracting for 'success'The contract
How contracting is different for group coaching
Why contracting is important
Qualification process
Contracting out at the end of the group coaching assignment
The 'ground rules' in group coaching
Closure and contracting
Key points

08 Discovering the right toolsPlease may I use this tool?
The overall contracting process
Goals and outcomes
Relating to others
Decision making
Change and transition

09 Creative group coachingHow other people feel
How you notice your own feelings
Logic and numbers
Images and spatial awareness
Music, sound, rhythms
Physical movement
Words and language
Creativity starts with a growth mindset
Key points

Part Four Measuring success

10 The challenges of measuring results from group coachingLegacy, vision, strategy
The system you start with influences results
Results = feedback
Use the start and end points to create a journey
Key points

11 Measuring success in practiceSuccess is a matter of perspective
Have, do or be: which measure does your group use?
Wisdom is self-perpetuating
Recognition
Success and wisdom in the real world
Key points

Part Five Group coaching as talent liberation

12 Using group coaching as part of your talent systemThe purpose behind group coaching as part of your talent system
The reason why that's important
What the likely benefits might be
Diagnosing your current talent system
Getting clear on your talent strategy
Group coaching creates a learning organization system
Is group coaching the only tool in your box to achieve your purpose?
Key points

13 Actions for optimizing collective talentCreating momentum by going back to basics
Leveraging the group to optimize their talents
Developing your talents as a group coach
Optimizing collective talent requires 'systems thinking'
Summary
Key points from the book

References
Further reading
Index