Effective Sessions is a necessary book for Coaching professionals, for those in training and those in their practice.

Operating within the theoretical framework of non-directive Coaching, it brings clarity to each stage of a session, providing self-assurance and efficacy to the performance of Coaching.

Training is usually the beginning of the path to professional excellence, but the true art of Coaching is mastered with practice and continuous improvement.

How do I begin a session? What do I have to ask? What happens if my mind goes blank? What is the right question? These doubts always occur at the outset, you can even get to the stage of questioning the methodology. You may feel that you are incapable of giving to your clients what you have received from Coaching. Effective Sessions will help you resolve these situations and answer your questions.

One of the keys to being a GOOD Coaching professional is to offer an effective service that will help people grow. The clients who grow not only come back, but they recommend you to others, helping you to become the Coach you want to be.

But there is more. Coaching is an art. Much more difficult to perform than to tell. There are always areas to improve no matter what the extent of your experience. There will always be blind spots that will dilute your efficacy.

In Effective Sessions you will find the necessary keys to perform excellent sessions, from the definitions of appropriate goals, to exploring a reality that might provide the client with new ways of looking at their life.

Effective Sessions is the first in a series of books addressed at professional Coaches or those in training, so they can perfect the art of being a Coach, both in and out of their sessions, with all the vital personal and professional implications this entails. But what is it that makes this book so different from others? The way it talks to you. Plain, simple and direct, that connects with you and remains with you. Let it explain the art of Coaching to you in a unique and heartfelt way.

Angela Covas Riera is a certified Master Coach (MCC) by ICF. She is the founder of Greatitute, Coaching Certificate Institute.

For a number of years now, a large part of her work has been oriented towards training and mentoring in Coaching, having done over two thousand mentorships and over three thousand sessions. Her particular way of explaining certain aspects of Coaching using metaphors as examples, and a very intimate and straightforward style which invites complicity and understanding, is no doubt what characterizes her.

Besides, she is a Graduate in Psychology and has degrees in Technical Engineering and Management Computing.

Intimate, creative, empathic and restless, she loves to write, travel and being alone at airports, and relishes intelligent conversations.

“An important turn to my approach to sessions. I have had the feeling that until now I was just on the surface and you have opened the car bonnet to see the motor that propels a good session. I have learned to focus my energies a lot more on the goal, to leave it well planned in a clear and efficient way and to be clear about the indicators that will reflect that the client has reached it.”

“I loved the book, it has completely connected me with the self, the feeling and the meaning of Coaching. It has helped me a lot to understand parts of Coaching that I had not been able to see before.”

“I believe it ought to be the bedside book of any person who is in the process of training and certification, and even some professional Coaches.”

“I think it is a fascinating book, loaded with answers to the lagoons that were left in my mind after training. A before and after for me.”