This book is unique in many respects: 1.The author gathered in one place 13 coaching frameworks and 150 coaching tools from a variety of disciplines, including professional coaching, psychology, training, and business management. 2.It introduces a new model for the coaching process (SPARKLE), organizes and leads the reader through available tools in accordance with different phases of this model. 3.It combines theory and practice, providing not only a list and description of coaching tools but also valuable illustrations by way of many insightful "one-minute" case studies. 4.To facilitate implementation by the reader, four categories (life coaching, career coaching, business coaching and executive coaching) are set forth, with each tool listed in the Table of Contents falling where it fits best. Laura Komócsin was the founder chairman of the Hungarian Chapter of the International Coach Federation. She successfully supported as a coach executives of several large companies, like Deutsche Telekom, Telenor, MTV, Erste bank, TNT, Kraft, AMEX, UPC, Vodafone, TESCO etc. She is ranked as the No. 1 Coach in Hungary. Thus far, she has published three best-selling coaching books in Hungary. When her first book was published she received several requests from US to Germany to translate it into English. While there are a substantial number of coaching books, the feedback she received was that her book, which contains an extensive overview of coaching models and tools, is unique in its kind and would be valuable to a larger, international audience. Her model consists of assisting the coach in following the natural flow and stages of a typical coaching process. SPARKLE is an acronym comprised of seven stages whereby each letter represents a step in the coaching process. S Situation P Positioning A Alternatives R Route K Key obstacles L Leverage E Evaluation References: Great tips for coaches! Practical tools that you can use! Marshall Goldsmith, the Most Influential Leadership Thinker in the world. (Harvard Business Review) Laura is very knowledgeable and has an excellent under standing of coaching. She describes coachees as diamonds and herself the diamond polisher. I feel that her book will be both valuable, and enjoyable to many coaches. Sir John Whitmore PhD, #1 Business coach (The Independent), Bestselling Author of Coaching for Performance and developer of the best known coaching model, GROW. This book is extremely comprehensive and a terrific addition to every co