Jerry Connor - The Four Greatest Coaching Conversations: Change mindsets, shift attitudes, and achieve extraordinary results

A fabulous book for managers and coaches. Successfully delivers the vision of simplicity of framework that recognizes adaptability of approach in changing mindset. The impact for our business has been significant.

Coaching is a critical skill for any people manager and there are many tools available. Often they are complex and give the sense that hours of preparation and coaching is needed for an impact or they are too simple and do not reflect the complexities of real life. This book offers a practical and simple framework to orient though coaching conversations, whilst recognising that different situations need a different approach. A great toolkit for any manager.

Brooke Finlayson, Chief Learning Officer, Mondelez International

Mining insights from thousands of coaching engagements, Conner and Hirani have brilliantly demystified the coaching process and uncovered the conversations that truly matter. Their book offers a powerful system that will help all coaches increase their relevance, multiply their impact, and enable others to be at their best when they need it most.

Liz Wiseman, bestselling author of Multipliers and Rookie Smarts

A very practical book on deepening coaching conversations by two very accomplished and thoughtful coaches, backed up by research and great case examples.

Peter Hawkins, Professor of Leadership and Co-Author of Systemic Coaching: Delivering Value Beyond the Individual and author of Leadership Team Coaching

This approach to coaching has fundamentally changed the Integrated Device Technology culture. As a result attrition is down and financial performance is up. I see leaders who have experienced this work changing their entire vocabulary and approach to their jobs. They are more thoughtful in their actions and much deeper in their thinking.

David Shepard, CEO and Senior Executive, Semiconductor Sector

Jerry and Karim redefined the art of coaching conversations with these Four Great Coaching conversations that transcend and transform. This book offers a path to master the technique and methodology, I am sure that this book will soon become a classic.

Enrique Lopez, Author and Founder of Academia Interamericana de Coaching

The Four Greatest Coaching Conversations is essential reading for any coach or leader wishing to expand their repertoire of coaching skills and to facilitate growth and transformation that lasts. Jerry Connor and Karim Hirani offer an impressive guide for coaches that is well grounded in theory and research, yet practical and full of how-tos. A resource anyone coaching would find invaluable.

Tony Clitheroe, Exec Coach, PCC, ICF (International Coach Federation) President 20142018, WA Branch Australasia Charter Chapter

Pragmatic, robust and insightful... a great resource for managers looking to adopt a coaching style with their teams and for leaders wanting to nurture a coaching culture within their organisations.

Abi Marchant, HRD Food Sector, 20112017

This book brings a rich diversity and depth of background research, and combines it with wisdom harvested from vast amounts of collective practice to create an elegantly simple set of heuristics. It is accessible and eminently practical, while laying out natural sequences for guiding you through ever deeper layers of mastery in your coaching practice.

Jonathan Reams, Associate professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology

This book is deep yet easy to read. It is rigorous in the treatment of the data and with the wisdom of the practice of coaching that infers what is not easily apparent; it is ambitious without claiming to be the ultimate coaching approach; it is exhaustive and written in the spirit of apprentice in the background. For a coach or manager, this will be of much value to you, your coaching practice and your leadership.

Francisco Villalta, PCC, Senior Coach, author of Nacemos con alas luego aprendemos a volar (Amazons Best Selling) and Memorias de una rosa

At last, the secret is out! a breakthrough guide for coaches and leaders alike. A must-read guide for coaches, managers and leaders who wish to use coaching conversations to skilfully cut through complexity to reach clarity and create fundamental change that lasts.

For the past decade Ive used Jerry and Karims four greatest conversations, with outstanding results. I love the fact that I can use this approach whilst maintaining the integrity of my own (personal) coaching style. By following the guidelines outlined in this book a coach or leader will feel extremely confident about creating fundamental change in both the mindset and behaviour of the coachee. Its about time the four greatest conversations were shared with the world!

Judy McGinn, PCC, Executive Coach, ICF Australasia Western Australia Branch Professional Development Team Coordinator and Facilitator

Chalk full of research-based insights and practical tools to support changing ones underlying mindset in order to make sustainable behavioral change and overcome common leadership challenges. Changing our mindset is fundamental to sustainable behavioral change. This book provides the context, tools and research to do just that.

Carmen T Acton, MBA, Co-Director Internal Programs, ICF San Francisco Bay Area Coaches

I have been coached personally by Karim, and as a business we have worked with BTS Coach for 4 years with the frameworks and techniques in this book. The impacts of the Be and Relate shifts in particular have been significant for me, professionally and personally, and for other individuals as well as us as an organization. Its hard to capture the magic of a great coach in a book or other medium, but this book does a brilliant job of explaining these powerful ideas and practical ways to apply them.

Jivan de Silver, Strategy Director UK Market, Global Hospitality/Leisure Business

Most managers I coach admit that, despite their best intentions, they tend to revert to advising and problem solving, rather than coaching. The Four Greatest Coaching Conversations gives leaders practical examples of how to use the right coaching conversation when coaches need help to build confidence, connection, inspiration or to have their mindset challenged. Stories, tips and example coaching questions help readers make sense of and apply the ideas presented. Drawing on a combination of neuroscience and psychological theory, Connor and Hiranis book is a useful tool for managers to build their mastery in the core leadership practice of coaching.

Dr. Vicki Webster, Incisive Leaders

Karim and Jerry have captured the essence of coaching in this informative and instructive book. Their models are profound and are based both on extensive research and psychological theories getting to the heart of how coachees and organisations can meet their potential. They present these simply, illustrated by case studies and offer clear, step-by-step explanations as to how to use these in coaching conversations. The chapter on subpersonalities adds an additional perspective, which takes their models to a new dimension. The exceptional element in this book is the way they combine simplicity with depth and offer line managers and coaches an innovative way to help individuals, teams and organisations make profound changes in a short time. I think this will become a must for all of us who have coaching conversations.

Keren Smedley, PCC, author of several books including Whos that Woman in the Mirror